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Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes on left; red background with green text 'Merry Christmas :)' on right.

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Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes on left; red background with green text 'Merry Christmas :)' on right.

Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes on left; red background with green text 'Merry Christmas :)' on right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split background
  • left-right division
  • vertical candy cane arrangement
  • text on right

Dense Caption

Left side features multiple red-and-white striped candy canes against a solid green background. Right side displays solid red background with green pixelated text reading 'Merry Christmas :)' in two lines. Text includes a smiley face emoticon. Candy canes are arranged vertically with overlapping segments. Text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. All elements are static with no visible animation.

Description

  • Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes on left; red background with green text 'Merry Christmas :)' 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
  • 2007-2016
  • 200811221336531890775138

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy canes merry christmas
  • merry christmas smiley face
  • green red candy canes
  • pixelated merry christmas text

Visible Text

  • Merry Christmas :)

Wordwall

  • candy canes
  • green background
  • red background
  • Merry Christmas
  • smiley face
  • pixelated text
  • red-and-white stripes
  • low-resolution graphics

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811221336531890775138
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
870864a545b67bfa
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:37 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078509

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Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes on left; red background with green text 'Merry Christmas :)' on right.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 10:03 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,140 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 627

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • green
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • split background
  • left-right division
  • vertical candy cane arrangement
  • text on right

Dense Caption

Left side features multiple red-and-white striped candy canes against a solid green background. Right side displays solid red background with green pixelated text reading 'Merry Christmas :)' in two lines. Text includes a smiley face emoticon. Candy canes are arranged vertically with overlapping segments. Text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. All elements are static with no visible animation.

Description

  • Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes on left; red background with green text 'Merry Christmas :)' 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
  • 2007-2016
  • 200811221336531890775138

Mood

  • festive
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy canes merry christmas
  • merry christmas smiley face
  • green red candy canes
  • pixelated merry christmas text

Objects

  • candy canes
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital graphics

Subjects

  • candy canes
  • text

Visible Text

  • Merry Christmas :)

Wordwall

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  • green background
  • red background
  • Merry Christmas
  • smiley face
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  • red-and-white stripes
  • low-resolution graphics
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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
200811221336531890775138
Archive entry
200811221336531890775138.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#200811221336531890775138.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811221336531890775138.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016