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Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes on left, pixelated text in red across four sections.

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Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes on left, pixelated text in red across four sections.

Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes on left, pixelated text in red across four sections. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left: candy canes on dark green; right: four text blocks on bright green

Dense Caption

Left section shows three red-and-white striped candy canes against a dark green background. Right side has four distinct blocks of red pixelated text: top-right reads "if a fat man in red just happens", bottom-left reads "stuff you in a bag tonight", bottom-middle reads "dont worry i asked Santa for you!!", and bottom-right shows ":3". All text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes on left, pixelated text in red across four sections.

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: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071201194307656878845

Named Entities

  • Santa

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy canes holiday text
  • red white green pixel art
  • Santa text emoticon
  • holiday candy cane message

Visible Text

  • if a fat man in red just happens
  • stuff you in a bag tonight
  • dont worry i asked Santa for you!!
  • :3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Santa (implied by text)

Wordwall

  • candy canes
  • red-and-white stripes
  • dark green background
  • pixelated red text
  • four text blocks
  • :3 emoticon

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071201194307656878845
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d1/d16ff8eb0d8c9fe86ea8830870dc083f8c9b00142c89d39453a2303d5cee7f00.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC
Archive ID
d16ff8eb0d8c9fe8
SHA-256
d16ff8eb0d8c9fe86ea8830870dc083f8c9b00142c89d39453a2303d5cee7f00
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:46 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.177567

OpenAI category scores

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Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes on left, pixelated text in red across four sections.

Reviewed
July 29, 2026 at 06:44 UTC
Run
54
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,764 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 656

Review tags

  • dark green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • holiday themed (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • candy canes (subject, 0.80)
  • santa implied (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • dark green

Composition

  • left: candy canes on dark green; right: four text blocks on bright green

Dense Caption

Left section shows three red-and-white striped candy canes against a dark green background. Right side has four distinct blocks of red pixelated text: top-right reads "if a fat man in red just happens", bottom-left reads "stuff you in a bag tonight", bottom-middle reads "dont worry i asked Santa for you!!", and bottom-right shows ":3". All text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Green background with red-and-white striped candy canes on left, pixelated text in red across four sections.

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: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071201194307656878845

Mood

  • playful
  • holiday-themed

Named Entities

  • Santa

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candy canes holiday text
  • red white green pixel art
  • Santa text emoticon
  • holiday candy cane message

Objects

  • candy canes

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution digital graphics

Subjects

  • candy canes
  • Santa (implied)

Visible Text

  • if a fat man in red just happens
  • stuff you in a bag tonight
  • dont worry i asked Santa for you!!
  • :3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Santa (implied by text)

Wordwall

  • candy canes
  • red-and-white stripes
  • dark green background
  • pixelated red text
  • four text blocks
  • :3 emoticon
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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
20071201194307656878845
Archive entry
20071201194307656878845.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 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#20071201194307656878845.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071201194307656878845.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016