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Green background with red candy canes and pixelated text reading 'Merry Christmas', 'Ho Ho Ho', and '2007' in red.

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Green background with red candy canes and pixelated text reading 'Merry Christmas', 'Ho Ho Ho', and '2007' in red.

Green background with red candy canes and pixelated text reading 'Merry Christmas', 'Ho Ho Ho', and '2007' in red. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; the image is static with pixelated text and candy canes on a green background.

Composition

  • left side: candy canes; right top: 'Merry Christmas'; right bottom: '2007'; left bottom: 'Ho Ho Ho'

Dense Caption

The image features a solid green background. On the left, there are multiple red-and-white striped candy canes arranged vertically. To the right of the candy canes, the words 'Merry Christmas' appear in pixelated red text at the top. Below that, on the lower right side, the year '2007' is displayed in pixelated red text. On the lower left side, three instances of 'Ho Ho Ho' are stacked vertically in pixelated red text. All text and candy canes have a low-resolution, pixelated appearance consistent with early digital graphics.

Description

  • Green background with red candy canes and pixelated text reading 'Merry Christmas', 'Ho Ho Ho', and '2007' in red.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071120165433776733871
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Mood

  • holiday

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy canes merry christmas 2007 ho ho ho
  • merry christmas 2007 holiday icon
  • green background red candy canes pixelated text
  • 2007 merry christmas ho ho ho

Visible Text

  • Merry Christmas
  • 2007
  • Ho Ho Ho

Wordwall

  • green background
  • red-and-white striped candy canes
  • pixelated red text
  • Merry Christmas
  • 2007
  • Ho Ho Ho

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071120165433776733871
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 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
icons/3f/3f8e206d0bd4f03dfce751c3c214a203cea3d6839de3a0bbae148bb8ad259fd1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Archive ID
3f8e206d0bd4f03d
SHA-256
3f8e206d0bd4f03dfce751c3c214a203cea3d6839de3a0bbae148bb8ad259fd1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:50 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.092864

OpenAI category scores

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Green background with red candy canes and pixelated text reading 'Merry Christmas', 'Ho Ho Ho', and '2007' in red.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 20:44 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,641 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 644

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • holiday (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • candy canes (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; the image is static with pixelated text and candy canes on a green background.

Colors

  • green
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • left side: candy canes; right top: 'Merry Christmas'; right bottom: '2007'; left bottom: 'Ho Ho Ho'

Dense Caption

The image features a solid green background. On the left, there are multiple red-and-white striped candy canes arranged vertically. To the right of the candy canes, the words 'Merry Christmas' appear in pixelated red text at the top. Below that, on the lower right side, the year '2007' is displayed in pixelated red text. On the lower left side, three instances of 'Ho Ho Ho' are stacked vertically in pixelated red text. All text and candy canes have a low-resolution, pixelated appearance consistent with early digital graphics.

Description

  • Green background with red candy canes and pixelated text reading 'Merry Christmas', 'Ho Ho Ho', and '2007' in red.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071120165433776733871
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Mood

  • festive
  • holiday

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy canes merry christmas 2007 ho ho ho
  • merry christmas 2007 holiday icon
  • green background red candy canes pixelated text
  • 2007 merry christmas ho ho ho

Objects

  • candy canes

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution digital graphics

Subjects

  • candy canes

Visible Text

  • Merry Christmas
  • 2007
  • Ho Ho Ho

Wordwall

  • green background
  • red-and-white striped candy canes
  • pixelated red text
  • Merry Christmas
  • 2007
  • Ho Ho Ho
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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
20071120165433776733871
Archive entry
20071120165433776733871.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 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#20071120165433776733871.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071120165433776733871.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016