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Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes; pixelated text reads 'ho ho ho' above and 'merry christmas' below.

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Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes; pixelated text reads 'ho ho ho' above and 'merry christmas' below.

Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes; pixelated text reads 'ho ho ho' above and 'merry christmas' below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with pixelated text and candy canes.

Composition

  • candy canes in upper-left
  • text top-right and bottom-center

Dense Caption

The image shows a green background with multiple red-and-white striped candy canes. The candy canes are positioned in the upper-left portion of the frame, overlapping each other. Pixelated black text appears at the top right reading 'ho ho ho', and pixelated black text appears at the bottom center reading 'merry christmas'. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes; pixelated text reads 'ho ho ho' above and 'merry christmas' below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071215163717770642813
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy canes green background
  • ho ho ho merry christmas
  • pixelated holiday text
  • retro digital candy canes

Visible Text

  • ho ho ho
  • merry
  • christmas

Wordwall

  • candy canes
  • green background
  • red-and-white stripes
  • pixelated text
  • 'ho ho ho'
  • 'merry christmas'
  • retro digital style
  • low resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071215163717770642813
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 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/65/651a5ed71165219de6c85cee496d09f2a8e3dbb3dda2f9104fccc9ff2a7bef78.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC
Archive ID
651a5ed71165219d
SHA-256
651a5ed71165219de6c85cee496d09f2a8e3dbb3dda2f9104fccc9ff2a7bef78
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:43 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096046

OpenAI category scores

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Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes; pixelated text reads 'ho ho ho' above and 'merry christmas' below.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 02:15 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,836 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 560

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • candy canes (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with pixelated text and candy canes.

Colors

  • green
  • red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • candy canes in upper-left
  • text top-right and bottom-center

Dense Caption

The image shows a green background with multiple red-and-white striped candy canes. The candy canes are positioned in the upper-left portion of the frame, overlapping each other. Pixelated black text appears at the top right reading 'ho ho ho', and pixelated black text appears at the bottom center reading 'merry christmas'. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes; pixelated text reads 'ho ho ho' above and 'merry christmas' below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071215163717770642813
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • festive
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy canes green background
  • ho ho ho merry christmas
  • pixelated holiday text
  • retro digital candy canes

Objects

  • candy canes

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • candy canes

Visible Text

  • ho ho ho
  • merry
  • christmas

Wordwall

  • candy canes
  • green background
  • red-and-white stripes
  • pixelated text
  • 'ho ho ho'
  • 'merry christmas'
  • retro digital style
  • low resolution
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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
20071215163717770642813
Archive entry
20071215163717770642813.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 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#20071215163717770642813.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071215163717770642813.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016