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Red snowflake icons on black background with repeating text "winter" and "springcome" in white pixelated font.

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Red snowflake icons on black background with repeating text "winter" and "springcome" in white pixelated font.

Red snowflake icons on black background with repeating text "winter" and "springcome" in white pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all frames identical with static red snowflakes and repeating text.

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • horizontal text bands between

Dense Caption

Four red snowflakes arranged in a 2x2 grid on solid black background. Snowflakes are identical, each composed of six symmetrical arms with rounded ends. White pixelated text repeats horizontally: "winter" followed by partial word "springcome" (missing 's' before 'pring') above and below the top-left snowflake; same pattern continues across all four quadrants. Text appears in two horizontal bands spanning full width, positioned between rows of snowflakes. Snowflakes are centered within their respective grid cells. All elements maintain consistent pixel resolution throughout visible area.

Description

  • Red snowflake icons on black background with repeating text "winter" and "springcome" in white pixelated font.

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2008011816021782807613

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red snowflake pixel art
  • winter springcome text
  • black background white font
  • symmetrical six-armed snowflakes

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; all frames identical
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: horizontal text bands between rows
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid layout

Visible Text

  • winter
  • springcome

Wordwall

  • red snowflakes
  • black background
  • white text
  • pixelated font
  • six-armed design
  • symmetrical arms
  • repeating text
  • horizontal bands

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008011816021782807613
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e7/e73be7546698c38c70cc81d056122f45a9bdfc02b964e861cb3ee1b37cd287b9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC
Archive ID
e73be7546698c38c
SHA-256
e73be7546698c38c70cc81d056122f45a9bdfc02b964e861cb3ee1b37cd287b9
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:57 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094254

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.914019onnx/unsafe0.094254onnx/nsfw0.052771onnx/nsfl0.041483
Enrichment records (1)
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Red snowflake icons on black background with repeating text "winter" and "springcome" in white pixelated font.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 11:14 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,804 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 631

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • monochrome background with single accent color (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • snowflakes (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all frames identical with static red snowflakes and repeating text.

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • horizontal text bands between

Dense Caption

Four red snowflakes arranged in a 2x2 grid on solid black background. Snowflakes are identical, each composed of six symmetrical arms with rounded ends. White pixelated text repeats horizontally: "winter" followed by partial word "springcome" (missing 's' before 'pring') above and below the top-left snowflake; same pattern continues across all four quadrants. Text appears in two horizontal bands spanning full width, positioned between rows of snowflakes. Snowflakes are centered within their respective grid cells. All elements maintain consistent pixel resolution throughout visible area.

Description

  • Red snowflake icons on black background with repeating text "winter" and "springcome" in white pixelated font.

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2008011816021782807613

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red snowflake pixel art
  • winter springcome text
  • black background white font
  • symmetrical six-armed snowflakes

Objects

  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; all frames identical
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: horizontal text bands between rows
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • monochrome background with single accent color

Subjects

  • snowflakes

Visible Text

  • winter
  • springcome

Wordwall

  • red snowflakes
  • black background
  • white text
  • pixelated font
  • six-armed design
  • symmetrical arms
  • repeating text
  • horizontal bands
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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
2008011816021782807613
Archive entry
2008011816021782807613.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 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#2008011816021782807613.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008011816021782807613.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016