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Blue background with cyan dotted border and snowflake corners, red text 'Merry Christmas' repeated four times in pixelated font.

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Blue background with cyan dotted border and snowflake corners, red text 'Merry Christmas' repeated four times in pixelated font.

Blue background with cyan dotted border and snowflake corners, red text 'Merry Christmas' repeated four times in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • four quadrants
  • centered text in each quadrant

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. Cyan dashed lines form a rectangular border; each corner contains a cyan eight-pointed star (snowflake). Four identical instances of the phrase "Merry Christmas" appear in bright red pixelated sans-serif type, arranged in two rows and two columns across the image. The text is horizontally centered within its respective quadrant. Each letter has visible pixelation with slight color bleeding into adjacent pixels.

Description

  • Blue background with cyan dotted border and snowflake corners, red text 'Merry Christmas' repeated four times in 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071224082413786016216

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry christmas pixel art
  • blue cyan red text icon
  • four merry christmasses
  • dotted border snowflake corners

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: symmetrical grid layout

Visible Text

  • Merry Christmas

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • cyan dotted border
  • snowflake corners
  • red 'Merry Christmas' text
  • pixelated font
  • four identical text instances

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071224082413786016216
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f2/f25055e29806fe6af0149522f115f032b74e2155177f55aeec1f782ad58ef5a3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC
Archive ID
f25055e29806fe6a
SHA-256
f25055e29806fe6af0149522f115f032b74e2155177f55aeec1f782ad58ef5a3
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:03 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.115151

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with cyan dotted border and snowflake corners, red text 'Merry Christmas' repeated four times in pixelated font.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 04:25 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,133 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 638

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • cyan
  • red

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • four quadrants
  • centered text in each quadrant

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. Cyan dashed lines form a rectangular border; each corner contains a cyan eight-pointed star (snowflake). Four identical instances of the phrase "Merry Christmas" appear in bright red pixelated sans-serif type, arranged in two rows and two columns across the image. The text is horizontally centered within its respective quadrant. Each letter has visible pixelation with slight color bleeding into adjacent pixels.

Description

  • Blue background with cyan dotted border and snowflake corners, red text 'Merry Christmas' repeated four times in 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071224082413786016216

Mood

  • festive
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry christmas pixel art
  • blue cyan red text icon
  • four merry christmasses
  • dotted border snowflake corners

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: symmetrical grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • Merry Christmas

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • cyan dotted border
  • snowflake corners
  • red 'Merry Christmas' text
  • pixelated font
  • four identical text instances
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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
20071224082413786016216
Archive entry
20071224082413786016216.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 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#20071224082413786016216.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071224082413786016216.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016