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A static image of red and white striped peppermint candies with the word 'mints' in green, orange, and blue text overlays.

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A static image of red and white striped peppermint candies with the word 'mints' in green, orange, and blue text overlays.

A static image of red and white striped peppermint candies with the word 'mints' in green, orange, and blue text overlays. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Source terms

Composition

  • dense arrangement of objects
  • text positioned at top-left, upper-right, and bottom-center

Dense Caption

The image displays a dense arrangement of round, flat peppermint candies with alternating red and white stripes. The background consists entirely of these candies. Three instances of the word 'mints' appear: one in bright green at top-left, one in orange at upper-right, and one in blue at bottom-center. Each text instance is rendered in a bold sans-serif font with a slight drop shadow effect. The image has no visible animation or motion changes.

Description

  • A static image of red and white striped peppermint candies with the word 'mints' in green, orange, and blue text overlays.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080724084528493971031

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • peppermint candies mints
  • red white striped mints text
  • green orange blue 'mints' text
  • text overlays peppermints

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • mints

Wordwall

  • red and white striped candies
  • peppermint pattern
  • green 'mints' text
  • orange 'mints' text
  • blue 'mints' text
  • bold sans-serif font
  • drop shadow on text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080724084528493971031
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 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 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
39ef8648aca1d15e
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 21, 2026 at 01:51 UTC
Run
1319
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.000020

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Assessed
August 3, 2026 at 00:46 UTC
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1258
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:42 UTC
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A static image of red and white striped peppermint candies with the word 'mints' in green, orange, and blue text overlays.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 13:56 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,772 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 649

Review tags

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  • orange (color, 0.80)
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  • white (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • red
  • white
  • green
  • orange
  • blue

Composition

  • dense arrangement of objects
  • text positioned at top-left, upper-right, and bottom-center

Dense Caption

The image displays a dense arrangement of round, flat peppermint candies with alternating red and white stripes. The background consists entirely of these candies. Three instances of the word 'mints' appear: one in bright green at top-left, one in orange at upper-right, and one in blue at bottom-center. Each text instance is rendered in a bold sans-serif font with a slight drop shadow effect. The image has no visible animation or motion changes.

Description

  • A static image of red and white striped peppermint candies with the word 'mints' in green, orange, and blue text overlays.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080724084528493971031

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • red white striped mints text
  • green orange blue 'mints' text
  • text overlays peppermints

Objects

  • text overlays

Style

  • pixelated
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Subjects

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Visible Text

  • mints

Wordwall

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  • peppermint pattern
  • green 'mints' text
  • orange 'mints' text
  • blue 'mints' text
  • bold sans-serif font
  • drop shadow on text
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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
20080724084528493971031
Archive entry
20080724084528493971031.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#20080724084528493971031.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080724084528493971031.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016