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Static image of candy canes on green background with red text 'CANDY KANE' and heart symbol '<3'

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Static image of candy canes on green background with red text 'CANDY KANE' and heart symbol '<3'

Static image of candy canes on green background with red text 'CANDY KANE' and heart symbol '<3'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • top-left: candy canes on green
  • top-right: text on red
  • bottom-left: symbol on red
  • bottom-right: empty gray square

Dense Caption

The icon is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows multiple red-and-white striped candy canes against a solid green background. Top-right quadrant contains white pixelated text reading "CANDY KANE" on a solid red background. Bottom-left quadrant displays the white pixelated heart symbol '<3' on a solid red background. Bottom-right quadrant is a plain gray square with no visible content or symbols.

Description

  • Static image of candy canes on green background with red text 'CANDY KANE' and heart symbol '<3'

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200711210840191600013638
  • FranksIcons
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Named Entities

  • CANDY KANE

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy canes green background
  • CANDY KANE text red background
  • <3 symbol red background
  • four quadrant candy cane icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Visible Text

  • CANDY KANE
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • CANDY KANE

Wordwall

  • candy canes
  • green background
  • red-and-white stripes
  • CANDY KANE text
  • <3 symbol
  • four-quadrant layout
  • solid colors

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711210840191600013638
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
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4b/4b200b7c0a4a6cd327f7edf5a4feeff4017e77eb5dcd3f3d21e319095c58d6ca.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Archive ID
4b200b7c0a4a6cd3
SHA-256
4b200b7c0a4a6cd327f7edf5a4feeff4017e77eb5dcd3f3d21e319095c58d6ca
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:14 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.182289

OpenAI category scores

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Static image of candy canes on green background with red text 'CANDY KANE' and heart symbol '<3'

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 20:57 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,926 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 687

Review tags

  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
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  • candy canes (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • red
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • top-left: candy canes on green
  • top-right: text on red
  • bottom-left: symbol on red
  • bottom-right: empty gray square

Dense Caption

The icon is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows multiple red-and-white striped candy canes against a solid green background. Top-right quadrant contains white pixelated text reading "CANDY KANE" on a solid red background. Bottom-left quadrant displays the white pixelated heart symbol '<3' on a solid red background. Bottom-right quadrant is a plain gray square with no visible content or symbols.

Description

  • Static image of candy canes on green background with red text 'CANDY KANE' and heart symbol '<3'

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200711210840191600013638
  • FranksIcons
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Named Entities

  • CANDY KANE

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy canes green background
  • CANDY KANE text red background
  • <3 symbol red background
  • four quadrant candy cane icon

Objects

  • candy canes

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • static

Subjects

  • candy canes

Visible Text

  • CANDY KANE
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • CANDY KANE

Wordwall

  • candy canes
  • green background
  • red-and-white stripes
  • CANDY KANE text
  • <3 symbol
  • four-quadrant layout
  • solid colors
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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
200711210840191600013638
Archive entry
200711210840191600013638.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#200711210840191600013638.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711210840191600013638.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016