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Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes and pixelated text reading 'Merry' and 'christmas'.

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Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes and pixelated text reading 'Merry' and 'christmas'.

Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes and pixelated text reading 'Merry' and 'christmas'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • top-left candy canes
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left text
  • bottom-right empty

Dense Caption

The image features a green background divided into four quadrants. The top-left quadrant contains multiple red-and-white striped candy canes, rendered in a low-resolution pixel art style. The top-right quadrant displays the word 'Merry' in white pixelated text on a solid green background. The bottom-left quadrant shows the word 'christmas' in white pixelated text on a solid green background. The bottom-right quadrant is a plain gray color with no visible elements or text.

Description

  • Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes and pixelated text reading 'Merry' and 'christmas'.

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071209142922330714700

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy canes merry christmas
  • green background candy canes
  • pixelated text merry christmas
  • four quadrant green gray candy canes

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Visible Text

  • Merry
  • christmas

Wordwall

  • green background
  • candy canes
  • red-and-white stripes
  • pixelated text
  • Merry
  • christmas

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071209142922330714700
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bf/bf32af71c4dafda8ac7d55b964ebc040d4014a39d15c44b649eb2000ea99824f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC
Archive ID
bf32af71c4dafda8
SHA-256
bf32af71c4dafda8ac7d55b964ebc040d4014a39d15c44b649eb2000ea99824f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:36 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.136881

OpenAI category scores

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Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes and pixelated text reading 'Merry' and 'christmas'.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 00:45 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,941 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 640

Review tags

  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • candy canes (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • red
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • top-left candy canes
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left text
  • bottom-right empty

Dense Caption

The image features a green background divided into four quadrants. The top-left quadrant contains multiple red-and-white striped candy canes, rendered in a low-resolution pixel art style. The top-right quadrant displays the word 'Merry' in white pixelated text on a solid green background. The bottom-left quadrant shows the word 'christmas' in white pixelated text on a solid green background. The bottom-right quadrant is a plain gray color with no visible elements or text.

Description

  • Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes and pixelated text reading 'Merry' and 'christmas'.

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071209142922330714700

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy canes merry christmas
  • green background candy canes
  • pixelated text merry christmas
  • four quadrant green gray candy canes

Objects

  • candy canes

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • candy canes

Visible Text

  • Merry
  • christmas

Wordwall

  • green background
  • candy canes
  • red-and-white stripes
  • pixelated text
  • Merry
  • christmas
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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
20071209142922330714700
Archive entry
20071209142922330714700.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 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#20071209142922330714700.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071209142922330714700.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016