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Red square icon with white pixelated text reading "SANTA I NEED YOUR HELP." and small heart corners, transitioning to "THERES THIS GUY.." in later frames.

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Red square icon with white pixelated text reading "SANTA I NEED YOUR HELP." and small heart corners, transitioning to "THERES THIS GUY.." in later frames.

Red square icon with white pixelated text reading "SANTA I NEED YOUR HELP." and small heart corners, transitioning to "THERES THIS GUY.." in later frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM b…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes from "SANTA I NEED YOUR HELP." to "THERES THIS GUY.." across frames

Animation Summary

  • Text transitions from "SANTA I NEED YOUR HELP." to "THERES THIS GUY.." across frames.

Composition

  • square icons in
  • text centered on each icon
  • small heart corners

Dense Caption

The image consists of a grid of red square icons with rounded corners. Each icon features white pixelated text on a solid red background. The top-left 15 icons display the text "SANTA I NEED YOUR HELP." with small heart symbols at each corner. The remaining 9 icons transition to displaying the text "THERES THIS GUY.." while maintaining the same heart corners and red background. All text is rendered in a blocky, pixelated font typical of early digital graphics. The grid layout contains 4 rows of 5 icons each.

Description

Red square icon with white pixelated text reading "SANTA I NEED YOUR HELP." and small heart corners, transitioning to "THERES THIS GUY.." in later frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • observation alt-text (broad): 1134419074_2030717716.gif
  • observation alt-text (broad): gaabbbbyyyyyy Christmas is here
  • observation alt-text (broad): myoldicons id 203654
  • observation alt-text (gallery): Santa I Need Your Help Myspace Icon
  • observation category (gallery): AIM Icons
  • observation category (broad): christmas
  • observation category (gallery): holiday
  • observation category (broad): holidays
  • observation category (broad): img
  • observation category (broad): myoldicons
  • observation title (gallery): Holiday icons for AIM, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo
  • observation title (broad): MyOldIcons
  • observation title (broad): OriginalIcons API
  • collection identity (broad; hint): buddy-icons-info
  • collection identity (broad; hint): originalicons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Santa I need your help text
  • THERES THIS GUY text
  • red square pixel art icon
  • heart corner icons

Objects

  • heart symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: square icons in 4x5 grid

Visible Text

  • SANTA I NEED YOUR HELP.
  • THERES THIS GUY.

Visually Supported Entities

  • Santa
  • help request
  • guy reference

Wordwall

  • red square
  • white pixelated text
  • SANTA I NEED YOUR HELP.
  • THERES THIS GUY..
  • heart corners
  • pixel art style

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / holidays / christmas
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 10:50 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Wayback Buddy-Icons.info Remaining Category Portal Shard

Source title
Holiday icons for AIM, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo
Category
aim icons / holiday / holiday icons for aim msn myspace and yahoo
Era
Mid-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 21:46 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
41645
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 00:13 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.6 KB
Motion
Animated (32 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/72/72780b667e4bd309129a16b920449022f359e349fb0d5035f00debb4c50de6a5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:15 UTC
Archive ID
72780b667e4bd309
SHA-256
72780b667e4bd309129a16b920449022f359e349fb0d5035f00debb4c50de6a5
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:11 UTC
Run
104
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084541

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.918234onnx/unsafe0.084541onnx/nsfw0.048571onnx/nsfl0.035970
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Red square icon with white pixelated text reading "SANTA I NEED YOUR HELP." and small heart corners, transitioning to "THERES THIS GUY.." in later frames.

Reviewed
July 22, 2026 at 06:31 UTC
Run
44
Version
v5
Elapsed
12,844 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,661, response 814

Review tags

  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • urgent (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbols (object, 0.80)
  • red background (object, 0.80)
  • white text (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • hearts (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • transition from "SANTA I NEED YOUR HELP." to "THERES THIS GUY.."

Animation

  • text changes from "SANTA I NEED YOUR HELP." to "THERES THIS GUY.." across frames

Animation Summary

  • Text transitions from "SANTA I NEED YOUR HELP." to "THERES THIS GUY.." across frames.

Colors

  • red
  • white

Composition

  • square icons in
  • text centered on each icon
  • small heart corners

Dense Caption

The image consists of a grid of red square icons with rounded corners. Each icon features white pixelated text on a solid red background. The top-left 15 icons display the text "SANTA I NEED YOUR HELP." with small heart symbols at each corner. The remaining 9 icons transition to displaying the text "THERES THIS GUY.." while maintaining the same heart corners and red background. All text is rendered in a blocky, pixelated font typical of early digital graphics. The grid layout contains 4 rows of 5 icons each.

Description

Red square icon with white pixelated text reading "SANTA I NEED YOUR HELP." and small heart corners, transitioning to "THERES THIS GUY.." in later frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • observation alt-text (broad): 1134419074_2030717716.gif
  • observation alt-text (broad): gaabbbbyyyyyy Christmas is here
  • observation alt-text (broad): myoldicons id 203654
  • observation alt-text (gallery): Santa I Need Your Help Myspace Icon
  • observation category (gallery): AIM Icons
  • observation category (broad): christmas
  • observation category (gallery): holiday
  • observation category (broad): holidays
  • observation category (broad): img
  • observation category (broad): myoldicons
  • observation title (gallery): Holiday icons for AIM, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo
  • observation title (broad): MyOldIcons
  • observation title (broad): OriginalIcons API
  • collection identity (broad; hint): buddy-icons-info
  • collection identity (broad; hint): originalicons

Mood

  • urgent
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Santa I need your help text
  • THERES THIS GUY text
  • red square pixel art icon
  • heart corner icons

Objects

  • red background
  • white text
  • heart symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: square icons in 4x5 grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text
  • hearts

Visible Text

  • SANTA I NEED YOUR HELP.
  • THERES THIS GUY.

Visually Supported Entities

  • Santa
  • help request
  • guy reference

Wordwall

  • red square
  • white pixelated text
  • SANTA I NEED YOUR HELP.
  • THERES THIS GUY..
  • heart corners
  • pixel art style
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 17:23 UTC
Run
30
Version
v3
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (14)
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Full source records (3)
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival (myoldicons-originalicons)
Kind
myoldicons-api
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Type
current recovered OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / holidays / christmas
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
1134419074_2030717716.gif | gaabbbbyyyyyy Christmas is here | animated | myoldicons id 203654
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 10:50 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
recovered large-scale AIM icon and away-message archive with category, subcategory, filename, keyword, and animation metadata
Original: https://myoldicons.com/icons/Holidays/Christmas/1134597566_1823391023.gif Download: https://myoldicons.com/icons/Holidays/Christmas/1134597566_1823391023.gif Page: https://myoldicons.com/api/icons?category=holidays 
Wayback Buddy-Icons.info Remaining Category Portal Shard (wayback-buddy-icons-info-remaining-categories-portal)
Kind
static-gallery
Era
Mid-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Internet Archive preserved categorized AIM icon portal
Category
aim icons / holiday / holiday icons for aim msn myspace and yahoo
Title
Holiday icons for AIM, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo
Alt
Santa I Need Your Help Myspace Icon
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 21:46 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
remaining AIM portal categories spanning identity, emotion, school, holidays, sports, symbols, and everyday culture
Original: http://www.buddy-icons.info/img/icon/41645.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20080106214606id_/http://www.buddy-icons.info/img/icon/41645.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20080106214606id_/http://www.buddy-icons.info/aim-icons/Santa_I_Need_Your_Help_Myspace_Icon.html 
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs (wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs)
Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration
Category
img / icon
Alt
41645
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 00:13 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
native Buddy-Icons.info AIM icon assets spanning user submissions, fandom, identity, relationships, school, sports, music, movies, and celebrity culture
Original: http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/41645.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20101027074409id_/http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/41645.gif