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Pixelated candy canes on green background with red text reading 'its CHRISTMAS time' on cyan background.

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Pixelated candy canes on green background with red text reading 'its CHRISTMAS time' on cyan background.

Pixelated candy canes on green background with red text reading 'its CHRISTMAS time' on cyan background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split background
  • left green
  • right cyan
  • vertical candy canes
  • text on right

Dense Caption

Left side shows multiple red-and-white striped candy canes with pixelated texture on solid green background. Right side displays cyan background with red pixelated text: 'its' on top line, 'CHRISTMAS' on middle line (partially cut off), 'time' on bottom line. Text uses blocky, low-resolution font. Candy canes are arranged vertically with overlapping segments. All elements have visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated candy canes on green background with red text reading 'its CHRISTMAS time' on cyan 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • holiday

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy canes green background
  • CHRISTMAS time cyan background
  • pixelated candy canes
  • red text holiday
  • green cyan split background
  • low-resolution CHRISTMAS
  • candy canes striped
  • text cut-off holiday

Visible Text

  • its
  • CHRISTMAS
  • time

Wordwall

  • candy canes
  • red-and-white stripes
  • green background
  • cyan background
  • red text
  • pixelated
  • CHRISTMAS
  • time
  • its
  • striped
  • text
  • low-resolution
  • overlapping
  • vertical
  • blocky font
  • partial text
  • holiday
  • candy
  • text cut-off
  • pixel art

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711241520452079414151
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 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 15:00 UTC
Archive ID
ba39b2b78b09cc93
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.105938

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated candy canes on green background with red text reading 'its CHRISTMAS time' on cyan background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 11:08 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,163 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 655

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • holiday (mood, 0.80)
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  • candy canes (subject, 0.80)

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  • white
  • green
  • cyan

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  • split background
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  • right cyan
  • vertical candy canes
  • text on right

Dense Caption

Left side shows multiple red-and-white striped candy canes with pixelated texture on solid green background. Right side displays cyan background with red pixelated text: 'its' on top line, 'CHRISTMAS' on middle line (partially cut off), 'time' on bottom line. Text uses blocky, low-resolution font. Candy canes are arranged vertically with overlapping segments. All elements have visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated candy canes on green background with red text reading 'its CHRISTMAS time' on cyan 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • festive
  • holiday

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  • CHRISTMAS time cyan background
  • pixelated candy canes
  • red text holiday
  • green cyan split background
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  • text cut-off holiday

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Style

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  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

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  • time

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  • text
  • low-resolution
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  • vertical
  • blocky font
  • partial text
  • holiday
  • candy
  • text cut-off
  • pixel art
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:21 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200711241520452079414151
Archive entry
200711241520452079414151.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 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#200711241520452079414151.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711241520452079414151.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016