A 4x4 contact sheet of pixel art Christmas tree animations with red backgrounds, showing text changes from 'MERRY' to 'X-MAS' across frames.

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A 4x4 contact sheet of pixel art Christmas tree animations with red backgrounds, showing text changes from 'MERRY' to 'X-MAS' across frames.

A 4x4 contact sheet of pixel art Christmas tree animations with red backgrounds, showing text changes from 'MERRY' to 'X-MAS' across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Animation

  • text changes from 'MERRY' to 'X-MAS'
  • consistent tree shape across frames
  • ornament positions unchanged
  • frame 0-13: MERRY text
  • frames 12-14: X-MAS text

Animation Summary

Animated Christmas tree with consistent shape across 15 frames; text changes from 'MERRY' to 'X-MAS' while ornament positions remain identical.

Composition

  • centered subject
  • solid background
  • text below star

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x4 grid of animated frame samples for an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each frame features a green pixelated Christmas tree with blue and yellow ornaments against a solid red background, topped by a yellow star. The animation progresses through text changes: the first two rows show 'MERRY' in white block letters (with some frames having slight letter spacing variations), while the last two rows display 'X-MAS' in similar style but with an X symbol replacing M. All trees maintain identical shapes and ornament positions across frames, differing only in text content. The grid layout shows 15 visible frames arranged left-to-right, top-to-bottom on a gray background (likely transparency indicator), with the bottom-right cell empty. Pixel art style uses dithering for shading effects on tree branches and ornaments, with black outlines defining shapes. Each frame is 48x48 pixels as per source metadata.

Description

  • A 4x4 contact sheet of pixel art Christmas tree animations with red backgrounds, showing text changes from 'MERRY' to 'X-MAS' across frames.

Identity Hypotheses

{"name":"AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon","basis":"both","confidence":0.95,"evidence":"48x48 pixel size, contact sheet layout, and historical context match AOL IM specifications"}

Metadata Supported By Image

  • category: icon / iconupload / buddypics / layouts2 matches visible animated buddy icon content
  • url: layouts2 aligns with contact sheet grid layout

Mood

  • holiday

Named Entities

  • AOL Instant Messenger

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art Christmas tree buddy icon
  • MERRY X-MAS animation
  • 48x48 pixel holiday icon
  • red background Christmas tree
  • X-MAS text animation

Objects

  • star

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 4x4
  • sampled frame count 15
  • source frame count 15
  • gray background indicates transparency
  • frames arranged left-to-right top-to-bottom

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit holiday-themed cartoon with no nudity or violence

Source Metadata Interpretation

source hints suggest 'wayback-coolbuddy-gifs' and 'layouts2' categories, likely indicating historical AOL buddy icon collection with Christmas theme

Visible Text

  • MERRY
  • X-MAS

Visually Supported Entities

  • Christmas holiday theme

Wordwall

  • pixelated green Christmas tree
  • red background
  • yellow star top
  • blue and yellow ornaments
  • white block text 'MERRY'
  • white block text 'X-MAS'
  • X symbol replacing M in X-MAS
  • solid red background
  • black outlines on shapes
  • dithered shading on tree branches
  • 48x48 pixel frame size
  • text changes across frames
  • frame 0-13 show MERRY
  • frames 12-14 show X-MAS
  • gray transparency indicator background
  • pixel art style
  • ornament positions consistent
  • star shape top of tree
  • block letter text
  • red orange gradient background
  • tree has three tiers
  • no facial features
  • text appears below star
  • text in white block letters
  • frame layout left-to-right top-to-bottom
  • contact sheet grid 4x4
  • 15 visible frames

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures

Source title
layouts2
Category
icon / iconupload / buddypics / layouts2
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 01:41 UTC

Prospect live gallery coolbuddy.com

Source title
Cool Buddy - Icons,Buddy icons,AIM icons,Buddy icon
Category
icons / cool buddy icons buddy icons aim icons buddy icon
Observed
July 26, 2026 at 04:26 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4 KB
Motion
Animated (15 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/60/60bf3c337094f2c3986aa15971a9dd585aa658e4594c03ec3a49e515b5301a3d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:07 UTC
Archive ID
60bf3c337094f2c3
SHA-256
60bf3c337094f2c3986aa15971a9dd585aa658e4594c03ec3a49e515b5301a3d
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 16:28 UTC
Run
93
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.092698

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.925683onnx/unsafe0.092698onnx/nsfw0.061177onnx/nsfl0.031521
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Assessed
July 11, 2026 at 11:10 UTC
Run
27
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.980000

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flaglegacy/manual-review0.000000falselegacy/nsfw0.000000false
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A 4x4 contact sheet of pixel art Christmas tree animations with red backgrounds, showing text changes from 'MERRY' to 'X-MAS' across frames.

Reviewed
July 11, 2026 at 11:10 UTC
Run
27
Version
v3
Elapsed
19,875 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,956, response 1,305

Review tags

  • red background (color, 0.95)
  • 48x48 pixel (size, 0.95)
  • christmas tree (subject, 0.95)
  • holiday icon (theme, 0.95)
  • contact sheet (layout, 0.90)
  • star top (object, 0.90)
  • pixel art (style, 0.90)
  • merry text (text, 0.90)
  • x mas text (text, 0.90)
  • blue ornaments (object, 0.85)
  • yellow ornaments (object, 0.85)

Animation

  • text changes from 'MERRY' to 'X-MAS'
  • consistent tree shape across frames
  • ornament positions unchanged
  • frame 0-13: MERRY text
  • frames 12-14: X-MAS text

Animation Summary

Animated Christmas tree with consistent shape across 15 frames; text changes from 'MERRY' to 'X-MAS' while ornament positions remain identical.

Colors

  • red
  • green
  • yellow
  • blue
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • centered subject
  • solid background
  • text below star

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x4 grid of animated frame samples for an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Each frame features a green pixelated Christmas tree with blue and yellow ornaments against a solid red background, topped by a yellow star. The animation progresses through text changes: the first two rows show 'MERRY' in white block letters (with some frames having slight letter spacing variations), while the last two rows display 'X-MAS' in similar style but with an X symbol replacing M. All trees maintain identical shapes and ornament positions across frames, differing only in text content. The grid layout shows 15 visible frames arranged left-to-right, top-to-bottom on a gray background (likely transparency indicator), with the bottom-right cell empty. Pixel art style uses dithering for shading effects on tree branches and ornaments, with black outlines defining shapes. Each frame is 48x48 pixels as per source metadata.

Description

  • A 4x4 contact sheet of pixel art Christmas tree animations with red backgrounds, showing text changes from 'MERRY' to 'X-MAS' across frames.

Identity Hypotheses

{"name":"AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon","basis":"both","confidence":0.95,"evidence":"48x48 pixel size, contact sheet layout, and historical context match AOL IM specifications"}

Metadata Supported By Image

  • category: icon / iconupload / buddypics / layouts2 matches visible animated buddy icon content
  • url: layouts2 aligns with contact sheet grid layout

Mood

  • festive
  • cheerful
  • holiday

Named Entities

  • AOL Instant Messenger

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixel art Christmas tree buddy icon
  • MERRY X-MAS animation
  • 48x48 pixel holiday icon
  • red background Christmas tree
  • X-MAS text animation

Objects

  • star
  • ornaments

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 4x4
  • sampled frame count 15
  • source frame count 15
  • gray background indicates transparency
  • frames arranged left-to-right top-to-bottom

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit holiday-themed cartoon with no nudity or violence

Source Metadata Interpretation

source hints suggest 'wayback-coolbuddy-gifs' and 'layouts2' categories, likely indicating historical AOL buddy icon collection with Christmas theme

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • retro

Subjects

  • Christmas tree

Visible Text

  • MERRY
  • X-MAS

Visually Supported Entities

  • Christmas holiday theme

Wordwall

  • pixelated green Christmas tree
  • red background
  • yellow star top
  • blue and yellow ornaments
  • white block text 'MERRY'
  • white block text 'X-MAS'
  • X symbol replacing M in X-MAS
  • solid red background
  • black outlines on shapes
  • dithered shading on tree branches
  • 48x48 pixel frame size
  • text changes across frames
  • frame 0-13 show MERRY
  • frames 12-14 show X-MAS
  • gray transparency indicator background
  • pixel art style
  • ornament positions consistent
  • star shape top of tree
  • block letter text
  • red orange gradient background
  • tree has three tiers
  • no facial features
  • text appears below star
  • text in white block letters
  • frame layout left-to-right top-to-bottom
  • contact sheet grid 4x4
  • 15 visible frames
Raw JSON
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Wayback CDX CoolBuddy.com Icon GIF Captures (wayback-coolbuddy-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
Type
Wayback historical mega-gallery crawl
Category
icon / iconupload / buddypics / layouts2
Alt
layouts2
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 01:41 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
Slice
large category portal with broad AIM and messenger icon coverage

Hmmnd0 Historical AIM Buddy Icon Repository (github-hmmnd0-historical-buddy-icon-repository)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Early-2000s Multi-Gallery Archive
Type
public Git mirror containing four organized historical AIM buddy-icon site collections
Category
CoolBuddy/Christmas
Title
layouts2
Archive entry
CoolBuddy/Christmas/layouts2.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 13:48 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
cross-sectional archive of Badass Buddy, CoolBuddy, dollbuddieicons, and IconHell collections spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, holidays, sports, relationships, pride, dolls, and internet culture

Prospect live gallery coolbuddy.com (horizon-live-coolbuddy-com-4c18b5a4f5c3)

Kind
static-gallery
Type
prospect-queue
Category
icons / cool buddy icons buddy icons aim icons buddy icon
Title
Cool Buddy - Icons,Buddy icons,AIM icons,Buddy icon
Alt
Christmas Icons
Observed
July 26, 2026 at 04:26 UTC
Rights
Unreviewed prospect; preserve provenance and review rights before redistribution.