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Pixelated candy canes on green background with red text reading 'Merry Christm and a Happy New' in blocky font.

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Pixelated candy canes on green background with red text reading 'Merry Christm and a Happy New' in blocky font.

Pixelated candy canes on green background with red text reading 'Merry Christm and a Happy New' in blocky font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top right text
  • centered left text
  • bottom right text
  • vertical candy cane arrangement

Dense Caption

Green rectangular background contains multiple pixelated red-and-white striped candy canes. Red blocky text reads 'Merry Christm' at top right, 'and a' centered below left, and 'Happy New' at bottom right. Text is partially cut off; 'Christm' lacks final 'as', 'New' lacks final 'Year'. Candy canes are arranged vertically with overlapping segments. All elements use low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixelated candy canes on green background with red text reading 'Merry Christm and a Happy New' in blocky font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712121428571320801957
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • holidays
  • humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy canes green background
  • Merry Christm and a Happy New
  • pixel art holiday text
  • red white striped candy canes

Visible Text

  • Merry Christm
  • and a
  • Happy New

Wordwall

  • candy canes
  • green background
  • red text
  • Merry Christm
  • and a
  • Happy New
  • pixelated
  • striped
  • partially cut off

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712121428571320801957
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 UTC
Archive ID
08cfcfc0909f7ee0
SHA-256
08cfcfc0909f7ee0872b3b43d00797d537e1e6b4a6ff94bf9d0a58a1a1c6854e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:51 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.100600

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Pixelated candy canes on green background with red text reading 'Merry Christm and a Happy New' in blocky font.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 01:24 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,414 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 636

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • candy canes (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • top right text
  • centered left text
  • bottom right text
  • vertical candy cane arrangement

Dense Caption

Green rectangular background contains multiple pixelated red-and-white striped candy canes. Red blocky text reads 'Merry Christm' at top right, 'and a' centered below left, and 'Happy New' at bottom right. Text is partially cut off; 'Christm' lacks final 'as', 'New' lacks final 'Year'. Candy canes are arranged vertically with overlapping segments. All elements use low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixelated candy canes on green background with red text reading 'Merry Christm and a Happy New' in blocky font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712121428571320801957
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • holidays
  • humor

Mood

  • festive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy canes green background
  • Merry Christm and a Happy New
  • pixel art holiday text
  • red white striped candy canes

Objects

  • candy canes

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • candy canes

Visible Text

  • Merry Christm
  • and a
  • Happy New

Wordwall

  • candy canes
  • green background
  • red text
  • Merry Christm
  • and a
  • Happy New
  • pixelated
  • striped
  • partially cut off
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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
200712121428571320801957
Archive entry
200712121428571320801957.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 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#200712121428571320801957.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712121428571320801957.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016