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Pixelated image of colorful M&M candies on left, blue pixel-art text on right reading "m&m's- the best darn thing EVA!!!".

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Pixelated image of colorful M&M candies on left, blue pixel-art text on right reading "m&m's- the best darn thing EVA!!!".

Pixelated image of colorful M&M candies on left, blue pixel-art text on right reading "m&m's- the best darn thing EVA!!!". Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split composition
  • left: dense candy cluster
  • right: text on black background

Dense Caption

Left side shows a dense cluster of pixelated M&M candies in red, green, yellow, orange, brown, and blue. Right side features solid black background with bright blue pixelated text: first line reads "m&m's-", second line "the best", third line "darn", fourth line "thing", fifth line "EVA!!!". Text uses blocky 8-bit style font. All elements are static; no animation observed.

Description

  • Pixelated image of colorful M&M candies on left, blue pixel-art text on right reading "m&m's- the best darn thing EVA!!!".

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • m&m candies pixel art
  • blue text black background
  • EVA!!! M&M icon
  • pixelated candy text

Visible Text

  • m&m's-
  • the best
  • darn
  • thing
  • EVA!!!

Visually Supported Entities

  • M&M's

Wordwall

  • M&M candies
  • pixelated text
  • blue background
  • black background
  • red candy
  • green candy
  • yellow candy
  • orange candy
  • brown candy
  • blue candy
  • m&m's- text
  • the best text
  • darn text
  • thing text
  • EVA!!! text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080309085650732376418
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d4/d41c0fc3c007fba6927eb792c4c196ed7a227fc978b810e6b9f7c17c090e86eb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC
Archive ID
d41c0fc3c007fba6
SHA-256
d41c0fc3c007fba6927eb792c4c196ed7a227fc978b810e6b9f7c17c090e86eb
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:47 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.212728

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of colorful M&M candies on left, blue pixel-art text on right reading "m&m's- the best darn thing EVA!!!".

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 05:45 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,881 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 650

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • candies (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • m m candies (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • green
  • yellow
  • orange
  • brown
  • blue
  • black
  • cyan

Composition

  • split composition
  • left: dense candy cluster
  • right: text on black background

Dense Caption

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Description

  • Pixelated image of colorful M&M candies on left, blue pixel-art text on right reading "m&m's- the best darn thing EVA!!!".

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • m&m candies pixel art
  • blue text black background
  • EVA!!! M&M icon
  • pixelated candy text

Objects

  • candies

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • M&M candies

Visible Text

  • m&m's-
  • the best
  • darn
  • thing
  • EVA!!!

Visually Supported Entities

  • M&M's

Wordwall

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  • pixelated text
  • blue background
  • black background
  • red candy
  • green candy
  • yellow candy
  • orange candy
  • brown candy
  • blue candy
  • m&m's- text
  • the best text
  • darn text
  • thing text
  • EVA!!! text
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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
20080309085650732376418
Archive entry
20080309085650732376418.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 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#20080309085650732376418.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080309085650732376418.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016