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Static image of candy canes on green background with red text reading 'candy canes' and partial phrase below.

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Static image of candy canes on green background with red text reading 'candy canes' and partial phrase below.

Static image of candy canes on green background with red text reading 'candy canes' and partial phrase below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-left green rectangle with candy canes
  • red background filling rest of space
  • text positioned top-right and bottom

Dense Caption

Green rectangular section in top-left contains multiple red-and-white striped candy canes. Red background fills remaining space. Green pixelated text reads 'candy canes' in top-right. Below, green pixelated text forms incomplete phrases: 'werent they something' on left and 'until the end...' on right. All text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Static image of candy canes on green background with red text reading 'candy canes' and partial phrase below.

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802041327421041362409

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy canes pixelated text
  • green background candy canes
  • red background festive text
  • werent they something until the end

Visible Text

  • candy canes
  • werent they something
  • until the end...

Wordwall

  • red-and-white striped candy canes
  • green background section
  • red background
  • pixelated green text
  • candy canes phrase
  • werent they something
  • until the end...
  • low-resolution blocky font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802041327421041362409
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a8/a81ef79df54a292ae34fc177ef2b4cddc81865bbb07406b72b0db08532a2da2a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC
Archive ID
a81ef79df54a292a
SHA-256
a81ef79df54a292ae34fc177ef2b4cddc81865bbb07406b72b0db08532a2da2a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:22 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079976

OpenAI category scores

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Static image of candy canes on green background with red text reading 'candy canes' and partial phrase below.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 16:46 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,494 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 664

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
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  • candy canes (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • red
  • white

Composition

  • top-left green rectangle with candy canes
  • red background filling rest of space
  • text positioned top-right and bottom

Dense Caption

Green rectangular section in top-left contains multiple red-and-white striped candy canes. Red background fills remaining space. Green pixelated text reads 'candy canes' in top-right. Below, green pixelated text forms incomplete phrases: 'werent they something' on left and 'until the end...' on right. All text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Static image of candy canes on green background with red text reading 'candy canes' and partial phrase below.

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802041327421041362409

Mood

  • festive
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy canes pixelated text
  • green background candy canes
  • red background festive text
  • werent they something until the end

Style

  • pixelated
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  • blocky font

Subjects

  • candy canes

Visible Text

  • candy canes
  • werent they something
  • until the end...

Wordwall

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  • green background section
  • red background
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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
200802041327421041362409
Archive entry
200802041327421041362409.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 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#200802041327421041362409.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802041327421041362409.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016