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Pixelated image of colorful candy pills on left, blue background with red pixelated text on right.

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Pixelated image of colorful candy pills on left, blue background with red pixelated text on right.

Pixelated image of colorful candy pills on left, blue background with red pixelated text on right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left side: candy cluster
  • right side: text on solid background

Dense Caption

Left side shows a cluster of pixelated candy pills in red, yellow, green, and orange. Right side has solid blue background with red pixelated text. Text reads "My friends are like candys..." at top right, "they come in so many different flavors" at bottom left, and "<33" at bottom right. All text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution font. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated image of colorful candy pills on left, blue background with red pixelated text 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20080703105355617509601
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20080703105355617509601

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy pills blue background red text
  • My friends are like candys they come in so many different flavors
  • retro digital candy text
  • pixelated candy pills blue background
  • candys <33
  • red yellow green orange candies blue background
  • low-resolution candy text
  • candy pills <33

Visible Text

  • My friends are like candys...
  • they come in so many different flavors
  • <33

Wordwall

  • candy pills
  • red text
  • blue background
  • pixelated
  • My friends are like candys...
  • they come in so many different flavors
  • <33
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • low-resolution font
  • red yellow green orange candies

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080703105355617509601
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d0/d0f92352c0465dd16cefb8d83832f03b6aaf6fecf32bc5510783ea3d73739aca.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
d0f92352c0465dd1
SHA-256
d0f92352c0465dd16cefb8d83832f03b6aaf6fecf32bc5510783ea3d73739aca
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:45 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.103848

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of colorful candy pills on left, blue background with red pixelated text on right.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 10:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,027 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 796

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • candy pills (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • green
  • orange
  • blue

Composition

  • left side: candy cluster
  • right side: text on solid background

Dense Caption

Left side shows a cluster of pixelated candy pills in red, yellow, green, and orange. Right side has solid blue background with red pixelated text. Text reads "My friends are like candys..." at top right, "they come in so many different flavors" at bottom left, and "<33" at bottom right. All text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution font. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated image of colorful candy pills on left, blue background with red pixelated text 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 20080703105355617509601
  • observation file-name (gallery): 20080703105355617509601

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy pills blue background red text
  • My friends are like candys they come in so many different flavors
  • retro digital candy text
  • pixelated candy pills blue background
  • candys <33
  • red yellow green orange candies blue background
  • low-resolution candy text
  • candy pills <33

Objects

  • candy pills

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • candy pills

Visible Text

  • My friends are like candys...
  • they come in so many different flavors
  • <33

Wordwall

  • candy pills
  • red text
  • blue background
  • pixelated
  • My friends are like candys...
  • they come in so many different flavors
  • <33
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • low-resolution font
  • red yellow green orange candies
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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
20080703105355617509601
Archive entry
20080703105355617509601.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#20080703105355617509601.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080703105355617509601.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016