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Pixelated text on a candy corn background with a gray rectangle overlay.

Pixelated text on a candy corn background with a gray rectangle overlay. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to Mid…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-left text block
  • top-right text block
  • bottom-left text block
  • right-side gray rectangle

Dense Caption

The image features pixelated dark blue text over a patterned background of orange and yellow candy corn. The top-left section reads "candy corn's good but..." in four lines. The top-right section reads "i'd rather have sam cuz" in four lines. The bottom-left section reads "he's even sweeter!" in three lines. A solid gray rectangle occupies the entire right side of the image, overlapping part of the background and text.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a candy corn background with a gray rectangle overlay.

Identity Hypotheses

  • sam

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 200710211541051548273499

Named Entities

  • sam

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy corn text sam
  • gray rectangle candy corn
  • pixelated sam sweet
  • text candy corn but he's sweeter

Visible Text

  • candy corn's good but...
  • i'd rather have sam cuz
  • he's even sweeter!

Visually Supported Entities

  • sam

Wordwall

  • candy corn pattern
  • dark blue pixelated text
  • gray rectangle overlay
  • text: candy corn's good but...
  • text: i'd rather have sam cuz
  • text: he's even sweeter!
  • pixelation effect

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710211541051548273499
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bd/bd57df378c4eb9c14ce99b53195483639a7d0a6f332d54c83167f5b2222966f2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC
Archive ID
bd57df378c4eb9c1
SHA-256
bd57df378c4eb9c14ce99b53195483639a7d0a6f332d54c83167f5b2222966f2
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:35 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.186798

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated text on a candy corn background with a gray rectangle overlay.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 11:52 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,191 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 704

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static image (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • candy corn pattern (subject, 0.80)
  • gray rectangle (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • orange
  • yellow
  • dark blue
  • gray

Composition

  • top-left text block
  • top-right text block
  • bottom-left text block
  • right-side gray rectangle

Dense Caption

The image features pixelated dark blue text over a patterned background of orange and yellow candy corn. The top-left section reads "candy corn's good but..." in four lines. The top-right section reads "i'd rather have sam cuz" in four lines. The bottom-left section reads "he's even sweeter!" in three lines. A solid gray rectangle occupies the entire right side of the image, overlapping part of the background and text.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a candy corn background with a gray rectangle overlay.

Identity Hypotheses

  • sam

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 200710211541051548273499

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Named Entities

  • sam

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy corn text sam
  • gray rectangle candy corn
  • pixelated sam sweet
  • text candy corn but he's sweeter

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • static image

Subjects

  • candy corn pattern
  • gray rectangle

Visible Text

  • candy corn's good but...
  • i'd rather have sam cuz
  • he's even sweeter!

Visually Supported Entities

  • sam

Wordwall

  • candy corn pattern
  • dark blue pixelated text
  • gray rectangle overlay
  • text: candy corn's good but...
  • text: i'd rather have sam cuz
  • text: he's even sweeter!
  • pixelation effect
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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
200710211541051548273499
Archive entry
200710211541051548273499.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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#200710211541051548273499.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710211541051548273499.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016