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Pixelated image of assorted colorful candies on left, bright pink background with green text 'I LOVE CANDY' on right.

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Pixelated image of assorted colorful candies on left, bright pink background with green text 'I LOVE CANDY' on right.

Pixelated image of assorted colorful candies on left, bright pink background with green text 'I LOVE CANDY' on right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left-right split
  • candies on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated candies: red cylindrical, yellow oval, green cylindrical, orange round, and green oval shapes. Right side has solid bright pink background with green pixelated text 'I LOVE CANDY' in three lines. Text lines are vertically aligned with 'I' above 'LOVE' above 'CANDY'. All text is uppercase. Candies have glossy highlights. Image is static with no animation.

Description

  • Pixelated image of assorted colorful candies on left, bright pink background with green text 'I LOVE CANDY' 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candies pink background
  • I LOVE CANDY green text
  • pixelated candies
  • green text I LOVE CANDY

Visible Text

  • I LOVE CANDY

Wordwall

  • pixelated candies
  • red cylindrical candy
  • yellow oval candy
  • green cylindrical candy
  • orange round candy
  • green oval candy
  • bright pink background
  • green pixelated text
  • I LOVE CANDY
  • uppercase text
  • glossy candy highlights

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090125002450245671027
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ff/ffabbc5ab8009897fea95f8ae8c65e3adcf2d871e5debf6bc97a2d0592775caf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 UTC
Archive ID
ffabbc5ab8009897
SHA-256
ffabbc5ab8009897fea95f8ae8c65e3adcf2d871e5debf6bc97a2d0592775caf
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:10 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087446

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated image of assorted colorful candies on left, bright pink background with green text 'I LOVE CANDY' on right.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 19:56 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,327 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,136, response 590

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • candies (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • yellow
  • green
  • orange
  • pink

Composition

  • left-right split
  • candies on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated candies: red cylindrical, yellow oval, green cylindrical, orange round, and green oval shapes. Right side has solid bright pink background with green pixelated text 'I LOVE CANDY' in three lines. Text lines are vertically aligned with 'I' above 'LOVE' above 'CANDY'. All text is uppercase. Candies have glossy highlights. Image is static with no animation.

Description

  • Pixelated image of assorted colorful candies on left, bright pink background with green text 'I LOVE CANDY' 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

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • candies pink background
  • I LOVE CANDY green text
  • pixelated candies
  • green text I LOVE CANDY

Objects

  • candies

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro

Subjects

  • candies

Visible Text

  • I LOVE CANDY

Wordwall

  • pixelated candies
  • red cylindrical candy
  • yellow oval candy
  • green cylindrical candy
  • orange round candy
  • green oval candy
  • bright pink background
  • green pixelated text
  • I LOVE CANDY
  • uppercase text
  • glossy candy highlights
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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
20090125002450245671027
Archive entry
20090125002450245671027.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:50 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#20090125002450245671027.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090125002450245671027.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016