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A pixelated image of colorful Skittles candies with text overlays reading "Skittles," "See the Rainbow," and "Taste the Rainbow" across different sections.

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A pixelated image of colorful Skittles candies with text overlays reading "Skittles," "See the Rainbow," and "Taste the Rainbow" across different sections.

A pixelated image of colorful Skittles candies with text overlays reading "Skittles," "See the Rainbow," and "Taste the Rainbow" across different sections. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM…

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Source terms

Composition

  • divided into three sections: top-left, top-right, bottom-left

Dense Caption

The image consists of a dense, pixelated background filled with multicolored Skittles candies in red, orange, yellow, green, purple, and pink. At the top left section, white text on a dark maroon banner reads "Skittles." In the top right section, black text with white outline reads "See the Rainbow." In the bottom left section, black text with white outline reads "Taste the Rainbow." The image is divided into three visible sections: top-left ("Skittles"), top-right ("See the Rainbow"), and bottom-left ("Taste the Rainbow").

Description

A pixelated image of colorful Skittles candies with text overlays reading "Skittles," "See the Rainbow," and "Taste the Rainbow" across different sections.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • skittles rainbow text
  • taste the rainbow skittles
  • see the rainbow skittles
  • multicolored candy text

Visible Text

  • Skittles
  • See the Rainbow
  • Taste the Rainbow

Visually Supported Entities

  • Skittles candies

Wordwall

  • multicolored Skittles candies
  • red, orange, yellow, green, purple, pink
  • text overlays "Skittles"
  • text overlays "See the Rainbow"
  • text overlays "Taste the Rainbow"
  • pixelated background
  • dark maroon banner
  • black text with white outline

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080427121223329586576
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/31/31cfdecc32904de3167ce548b2521078102715e6d086a2f6639db149be8d2c4e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC
Archive ID
31cfdecc32904de3
SHA-256
31cfdecc32904de3167ce548b2521078102715e6d086a2f6639db149be8d2c4e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:35 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.119604

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image of colorful Skittles candies with text overlays reading "Skittles," "See the Rainbow," and "Taste the Rainbow" across different sections.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 09:22 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,599 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 676

Review tags

  • dark maroon (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • text overlays (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • skittles candies (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • orange
  • yellow
  • green
  • purple
  • pink
  • dark maroon
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • divided into three sections: top-left, top-right, bottom-left

Dense Caption

The image consists of a dense, pixelated background filled with multicolored Skittles candies in red, orange, yellow, green, purple, and pink. At the top left section, white text on a dark maroon banner reads "Skittles." In the top right section, black text with white outline reads "See the Rainbow." In the bottom left section, black text with white outline reads "Taste the Rainbow." The image is divided into three visible sections: top-left ("Skittles"), top-right ("See the Rainbow"), and bottom-left ("Taste the Rainbow").

Description

A pixelated image of colorful Skittles candies with text overlays reading "Skittles," "See the Rainbow," and "Taste the Rainbow" across different sections.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • skittles rainbow text
  • taste the rainbow skittles
  • see the rainbow skittles
  • multicolored candy text

Objects

  • text overlays

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • Skittles candies

Visible Text

  • Skittles
  • See the Rainbow
  • Taste the Rainbow

Visually Supported Entities

  • Skittles candies

Wordwall

  • multicolored Skittles candies
  • red, orange, yellow, green, purple, pink
  • text overlays "Skittles"
  • text overlays "See the Rainbow"
  • text overlays "Taste the Rainbow"
  • pixelated background
  • dark maroon banner
  • black text with white outline
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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
20080427121223329586576
Archive entry
20080427121223329586576.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 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#20080427121223329586576.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080427121223329586576.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016