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Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes; red with green text reading "MeErRy Christmas" and "and a happy new year"; gray on right

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Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes; red with green text reading "MeErRy Christmas" and "and a happy new year"; gray on right

Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes; red with green text reading "MeErRy Christmas" and "and a happy new year"; gray on right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ico…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • candy canes on green background
  • text on red
  • gray on right

Dense Caption

Green background with multiple red-and-white striped candy canes; red panel top-right with green pixelated text "MeErRy Christmas"; red panel bottom-left with green pixelated text "and a happy new year"; gray panel right side; all elements arranged in a four-quadrant grid layout; pixelated text and candy cane stripes visible; no animation present.

Description

Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes; red with green text reading "MeErRy Christmas" and "and a happy new year"; gray 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081203181344843930293
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • holiday

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy canes green background
  • MeErRy Christmas and a happy new year
  • four-quadrant holiday text
  • pixelated text candy canes

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes; red panels with green text reading "MeErRy Christmas" and "and a happy new year"; gray panel on right.
  • quarantined wordwall: gray panel
  • quarantined wordwall: four-quadrant grid
  • quarantined wordwall: red panels
  • quarantined composition: gray panel on right
  • quarantined composition: text on red panels
  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four-quadrant grid holiday text

Visible Text

  • MeErRy Christmas
  • and a happy new year

Wordwall

  • candy canes
  • green background
  • red
  • green text
  • MeErRy Christmas
  • and a happy new year
  • four-quadrant
  • pixelated text
  • red-and-white stripes
  • gray

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081203181344843930293
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/63/639f9895ff9c0ba9ec8020e859b9565e1c031e7047e4021558b3941ca18f1046.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Archive ID
639f9895ff9c0ba9
SHA-256
639f9895ff9c0ba9ec8020e859b9565e1c031e7047e4021558b3941ca18f1046
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:42 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078999

OpenAI category scores

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Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes; red with green text reading "MeErRy Christmas" and "and a happy new year"; gray on right

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 12:04 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,608 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 708

Review tags

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

Colors

  • green
  • red
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • candy canes on green background
  • text on red
  • gray on right

Dense Caption

Green background with multiple red-and-white striped candy canes; red panel top-right with green pixelated text "MeErRy Christmas"; red panel bottom-left with green pixelated text "and a happy new year"; gray panel right side; all elements arranged in a four-quadrant grid layout; pixelated text and candy cane stripes visible; no animation present.

Description

Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes; red with green text reading "MeErRy Christmas" and "and a happy new year"; gray 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081203181344843930293
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • festive
  • holiday

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy canes green background
  • MeErRy Christmas and a happy new year
  • four-quadrant holiday text
  • pixelated text candy canes

Objects

  • candy canes

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined composition: gray panel on right
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  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid
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Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • text-based

Subjects

  • candy canes

Visible Text

  • MeErRy Christmas
  • and a happy new year

Wordwall

  • candy canes
  • green background
  • red
  • green text
  • MeErRy Christmas
  • and a happy new year
  • four-quadrant
  • pixelated text
  • red-and-white stripes
  • gray
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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
20081203181344843930293
Archive entry
20081203181344843930293.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 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#20081203181344843930293.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081203181344843930293.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016