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A static pixel art image with a bright pink background, black text repeating 'let it snow!', and white asterisk-like symbols arranged in a pattern

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A static pixel art image with a bright pink background, black text repeating 'let it snow!', and white asterisk-like symbols arranged in a pattern

A static pixel art image with a bright pink background, black text repeating 'let it snow!', and white asterisk-like symbols arranged in a pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ic…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • repeating text
  • central asterisk cluster

Dense Caption

Bright pink background. Black text reading 'let it snow!' repeated across the top and bottom rows of the image. White asterisk-shaped symbols (resembling small snowflakes) positioned at corners and along vertical/horizontal midlines. Dashed white lines connect these symbols, forming a grid structure. The central area contains two overlapping white asterisks. Text is rendered in a pixelated font with no additional styling or effects.

Description

A static pixel art image with a bright pink background, black text repeating 'let it snow!', and white asterisk-like symbols arranged in a pattern

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071207135729888468827

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background let it snow asterisk
  • let it snow text pixel art
  • asterisk pink background
  • text-based holiday icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static pixel art image with a bright pink background, black text repeating 'let it snow!', and white asterisk-like symbols arranged in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined style: grid composition
  • quarantined composition: repeating text rows
  • quarantined retrieval: asterisk grid pink background

Visible Text

  • let it snow!

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • black text 'let it snow!'
  • white asterisk symbols
  • dashed white connecting lines
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071207135729888468827
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
477 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c2/c29e279f23ad57c93b292e5790f62cee3185a6f68db5a231995f09278e34958d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC
Archive ID
c29e279f23ad57c9
SHA-256
c29e279f23ad57c93b292e5790f62cee3185a6f68db5a231995f09278e34958d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:38 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.169676

OpenAI category scores

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A static pixel art image with a bright pink background, black text repeating 'let it snow!', and white asterisk-like symbols arranged in a pattern

Reviewed
July 30, 2026 at 23:54 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,596 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 687

Review tags

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  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • asterisk symbols (object, 0.80)
  • dashed lines (object, 0.80)
  • composition (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • repeating text
  • central asterisk cluster

Dense Caption

Bright pink background. Black text reading 'let it snow!' repeated across the top and bottom rows of the image. White asterisk-shaped symbols (resembling small snowflakes) positioned at corners and along vertical/horizontal midlines. Dashed white lines connect these symbols, forming a grid structure. The central area contains two overlapping white asterisks. Text is rendered in a pixelated font with no additional styling or effects.

Description

A static pixel art image with a bright pink background, black text repeating 'let it snow!', and white asterisk-like symbols arranged in a pattern

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071207135729888468827

Mood

  • festive
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink background let it snow asterisk
  • let it snow text pixel art
  • asterisk pink background
  • text-based holiday icon

Objects

  • asterisk symbols
  • dashed lines

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static pixel art image with a bright pink background, black text repeating 'let it snow!', and white asterisk-like symbols arranged in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined style: grid composition
  • quarantined composition: repeating text rows
  • quarantined retrieval: asterisk grid pink background

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • composition

Visible Text

  • let it snow!

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • black text 'let it snow!'
  • white asterisk symbols
  • dashed white connecting lines
  • pixelated font
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
20071207135729888468827
Archive entry
20071207135729888468827.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071207135729888468827.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071207135729888468827.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016