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Pixelated candy canes on green background with red text reading MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

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Pixelated candy canes on green background with red text reading MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Pixelated candy canes on green background with red text reading MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Mood

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Animation Summary

No visible animation changes observed across chronological observations; the image remains static with consistent candy cane and text placement.

Composition

  • left-aligned candy canes
  • text positioned top-right, bottom-left, and middle-right

Dense Caption

Green square background. Four pixelated candy canes with white and red stripes occupy the left portion of the image, overlapping each other. Red blocky text in uppercase reads 'MERRY' at top right, 'CHRISTMAS' below the candy canes on the left, and 'EVERYONE!' to the right of 'CHRISTMAS'. The entire composition is static with no visible animation changes across observations. Text uses a retro digital font style typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated candy canes on green background with red text reading MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200812241045331901126047
  • 200812241045531446401317
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy canes green background red text
  • MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! pixelated
  • retro digital font festive holiday
  • green background candy canes text

Visible Text

  • MERRY
  • CHRISTMAS
  • EVERYONE!

Wordwall

  • candy canes
  • green background
  • red text
  • pixelated
  • MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!
  • retro digital font
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812241045331901126047
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812241045531446401317
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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
icons/3b/3bafddf9f7358a63932bdd00365c8d0b2bcfa3acc4842411b7c231009e871166.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
3bafddf9f7358a63
SHA-256
3bafddf9f7358a63932bdd00365c8d0b2bcfa3acc4842411b7c231009e871166
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 27, 2026 at 16:06 UTC
Run
1355
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000012

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Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 21:00 UTC
Run
1272
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image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:46 UTC
Run
107
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Overall label
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated candy canes on green background with red text reading MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 15:15 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,124 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,155, response 596

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • candy canes (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

No visible animation changes observed across chronological observations; the image remains static with consistent candy cane and text placement.

Colors

  • green
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • left-aligned candy canes
  • text positioned top-right, bottom-left, and middle-right

Dense Caption

Green square background. Four pixelated candy canes with white and red stripes occupy the left portion of the image, overlapping each other. Red blocky text in uppercase reads 'MERRY' at top right, 'CHRISTMAS' below the candy canes on the left, and 'EVERYONE!' to the right of 'CHRISTMAS'. The entire composition is static with no visible animation changes across observations. Text uses a retro digital font style typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated candy canes on green background with red text reading MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200812241045331901126047
  • 200812241045531446401317
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Mood

  • festive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy canes green background red text
  • MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! pixelated
  • retro digital font festive holiday
  • green background candy canes text

Objects

  • candy canes

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • candy canes

Visible Text

  • MERRY
  • CHRISTMAS
  • EVERYONE!

Wordwall

  • candy canes
  • green background
  • red text
  • pixelated
  • MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!
  • retro digital font
  • static image
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Full source records (2)

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
200812241045331901126047
Archive entry
200812241045331901126047.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#200812241045331901126047.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812241045331901126047.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200812241045531446401317
Archive entry
200812241045531446401317.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#200812241045531446401317.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812241045531446401317.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016