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A split-screen image with candy canes on green and text on purple, showing a pixelated 'i <3 christmas' message.

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A split-screen image with candy canes on green and text on purple, showing a pixelated 'i <3 christmas' message.

A split-screen image with candy canes on green and text on purple, showing a pixelated 'i <3 christmas' message. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; static image with split-screen layout showing candy canes on green and text on purple.

Composition

  • split-screen
  • vertical division

Dense Caption

The image is split vertically. Left side: multiple red-and-white striped candy canes on a solid green background. Right side: solid purple background with blue pixelated text. Text reads 'i' (single character), '<3' (heart symbol), and 'christmas' (lowercase). All text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution pixel art style. No animation is visible in this static frame.

Description

  • A split-screen image with candy canes on green and text on purple, showing a pixelated 'i <3 christmas' message.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy canes green purple
  • i <3 christmas pixel art
  • split-screen candy canes text
  • pixel art candy canes purple background
  • christmas text pixel art
  • candy canes green background
  • i <3 christmas
  • pixel art split-screen

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected in this frame.

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • christmas

Wordwall

  • candy canes
  • green background
  • purple background
  • red-and-white stripes
  • pixelated text
  • blue text
  • <3 heart symbol
  • christmas text
  • split-screen layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812211433091775380045
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/54/5465f8d84d94233d1adfb5eff0cb5d0628dac68af278ab4eb019ce790b0cec2b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
5465f8d84d94233d
SHA-256
5465f8d84d94233d1adfb5eff0cb5d0628dac68af278ab4eb019ce790b0cec2b
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 27, 2026 at 18:29 UTC
Run
1196
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000488

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:26 UTC
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1037
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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A split-screen image with candy canes on green and text on purple, showing a pixelated 'i <3 christmas' message.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:48 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,424 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 586

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • candy canes (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; static image with split-screen layout showing candy canes on green and text on purple.

Colors

  • green
  • purple
  • red
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • split-screen
  • vertical division

Dense Caption

The image is split vertically. Left side: multiple red-and-white striped candy canes on a solid green background. Right side: solid purple background with blue pixelated text. Text reads 'i' (single character), '<3' (heart symbol), and 'christmas' (lowercase). All text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution pixel art style. No animation is visible in this static frame.

Description

  • A split-screen image with candy canes on green and text on purple, showing a pixelated 'i <3 christmas' message.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy canes green purple
  • i <3 christmas pixel art
  • split-screen candy canes text
  • pixel art candy canes purple background
  • christmas text pixel art
  • candy canes green background
  • i <3 christmas
  • pixel art split-screen

Objects

  • candy canes

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected in this frame.

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Visible Text

  • i
  • <3
  • christmas

Wordwall

  • candy canes
  • green background
  • purple background
  • red-and-white stripes
  • pixelated text
  • blue text
  • <3 heart symbol
  • christmas text
  • split-screen layout
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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
200812211433091775380045
Archive entry
200812211433091775380045.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#200812211433091775380045.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812211433091775380045.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016