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A static image with candy canes on green background and three text blocks on red background.

A static image with candy canes on green background and three text blocks on red background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant layout
  • solid color backgrounds
  • text blocks on red background
  • candy canes in top-left quadrant

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows multiple red-and-white striped candy canes against a solid green background. Bottom-left, bottom-right, and top-right quadrants have solid red backgrounds with pixelated green text: 'I love winter.' in the bottom-left, 'I love you.' in the bottom-right, and 'I love Christmas.' in the top-right. All text uses uppercase letters with periods at the end.

Description

  • A static image with candy canes on green background and three text blocks on red background.

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: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712230817021801298764

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy canes green background
  • I love winter I love you I love Christmas
  • pixelated text red background
  • four quadrant holiday icon

Visible Text

  • I love winter.
  • I love you.
  • I love Christmas.

Wordwall

  • candy canes
  • green background
  • red background
  • pixelated green text
  • I love winter.
  • I love you.
  • I love Christmas.
  • striped candy canes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712230817021801298764
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 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/77/77eaeb84403573f3590841f1cc703d2654f1455b94e0314b25992c00c8f5cc7b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC
Archive ID
77eaeb84403573f3
SHA-256
77eaeb84403573f3590841f1cc703d2654f1455b94e0314b25992c00c8f5cc7b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:04 UTC
Run
1051
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072720

OpenAI category scores

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A static image with candy canes on green background and three text blocks on red background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,605 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 658

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • red and white striped (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • seasonal (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • candy canes (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • red
  • white
  • red-and-white striped

Composition

  • four-quadrant layout
  • solid color backgrounds
  • text blocks on red background
  • candy canes in top-left quadrant

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows multiple red-and-white striped candy canes against a solid green background. Bottom-left, bottom-right, and top-right quadrants have solid red backgrounds with pixelated green text: 'I love winter.' in the bottom-left, 'I love you.' in the bottom-right, and 'I love Christmas.' in the top-right. All text uses uppercase letters with periods at the end.

Description

  • A static image with candy canes on green background and three text blocks on red background.

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: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712230817021801298764

Mood

  • festive
  • affectionate
  • seasonal

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy canes green background
  • I love winter I love you I love Christmas
  • pixelated text red background
  • four quadrant holiday icon

Objects

  • candy canes

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static

Subjects

  • candy canes

Visible Text

  • I love winter.
  • I love you.
  • I love Christmas.

Wordwall

  • candy canes
  • green background
  • red background
  • pixelated green text
  • I love winter.
  • I love you.
  • I love Christmas.
  • striped candy canes
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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
200712230817021801298764
Archive entry
200712230817021801298764.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 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#200712230817021801298764.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712230817021801298764.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016