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Pixelated image of colorful M&M candies on left, blue background with pixel text on right.

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Pixelated image of colorful M&M candies on left, blue background with pixel text on right.

Pixelated image of colorful M&M candies on left, blue background with pixel text on right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left: candy cluster
  • right: text block

Dense Caption

Left side shows a dense cluster of round, glossy M&M candies in red, green, yellow, orange, brown, and blue. Right side has solid cyan background with four lines of blue pixelated text: 'i get high on thkittles . .', 'even tho these are M&M's...', 'omg i need a fricken', 'LIFE!!!'. Text uses blocky 8-bit font style typical of early internet graphics. All elements are static.

Description

  • Pixelated image of colorful M&M candies on left, blue background with pixel text on right.

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
  • 20080204164619147500042

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • M&Ms candy pixel art
  • thkittles typo text
  • fricken LIFE!!! 8-bit font
  • cyan background M&M image

Visible Text

  • i get high on thkittles . .
  • even tho these are M&M's...
  • omg i need a fricken LIFE!!!

Wordwall

  • M&Ms
  • candy
  • cyan background
  • pixel text
  • blue letters
  • red M&M
  • green M&M
  • yellow M&M
  • orange M&M
  • brown M&M
  • blue M&M
  • thkittles typo
  • fricken LIFE!!!
  • 8-bit font

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080204164619147500042
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 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 15:13 UTC
Archive ID
3ab660333300d08d
SHA-256
3ab660333300d08d535cb3bd262ef4a54d402855a26ef18ad11f80ec1cf6ec1e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:45 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.164676

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of colorful M&M candies on left, blue background with pixel text on right.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 16:57 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,563 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 684

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • candy (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • m ms candies (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • red
  • green
  • yellow
  • orange
  • brown
  • blue

Composition

  • left: candy cluster
  • right: text block

Dense Caption

Left side shows a dense cluster of round, glossy M&M candies in red, green, yellow, orange, brown, and blue. Right side has solid cyan background with four lines of blue pixelated text: 'i get high on thkittles . .', 'even tho these are M&M's...', 'omg i need a fricken', 'LIFE!!!'. Text uses blocky 8-bit font style typical of early internet graphics. All elements are static.

Description

  • Pixelated image of colorful M&M candies on left, blue background with pixel text on right.

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
  • 20080204164619147500042

Mood

  • humorous
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • thkittles typo text
  • fricken LIFE!!! 8-bit font
  • cyan background M&M image

Objects

  • candy
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • M&Ms candies

Visible Text

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  • even tho these are M&M's...
  • omg i need a fricken LIFE!!!

Wordwall

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  • blue M&M
  • thkittles typo
  • fricken LIFE!!!
  • 8-bit font
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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
20080204164619147500042
Archive entry
20080204164619147500042.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 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#20080204164619147500042.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080204164619147500042.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016