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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan text reading 'I think its sad to be ALONE' against black background.

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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan text reading 'I think its sad to be ALONE' against black background.

Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan text reading 'I think its sad to be ALONE' against black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • bear centered left
  • text distributed top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right

Dense Caption

A pixelated image of a light gray and white polar bear sitting on snow, facing left. The bear has dark eyes and nose. Cyan-colored text in blocky font appears: top-right reads 'I think its sad', bottom-left reads 'to be', bottom-right reads 'ALONE'. Background is solid black except for the snowy scene behind the bear. Image uses low-resolution pixel art style with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan text reading 'I think its sad to be ALONE' against black background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080123192915728846852

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polar bear sad alone pixel art
  • cyan text I think its sad to be ALONE
  • low-res polar bear snow cyan text
  • melancholic polar bear pixel art

Visible Text

  • I think its sad
  • to be
  • ALONE

Wordwall

  • polar bear
  • snow background
  • cyan text
  • blocky font
  • I think its sad
  • to be ALONE
  • low-resolution pixel art

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080123192915728846852
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Archive ID
0c52b48a9d2e70da
SHA-256
0c52b48a9d2e70da6c065e58697460fa2d91a56248cd7aa8a34fb493a30c5166
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:56 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.146829

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan text reading 'I think its sad to be ALONE' against black background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 12:36 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,279 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 647

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • solitary (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • polar bear (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light gray
  • white
  • cyan
  • black
  • dark gray

Composition

  • bear centered left
  • text distributed top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right

Dense Caption

A pixelated image of a light gray and white polar bear sitting on snow, facing left. The bear has dark eyes and nose. Cyan-colored text in blocky font appears: top-right reads 'I think its sad', bottom-left reads 'to be', bottom-right reads 'ALONE'. Background is solid black except for the snowy scene behind the bear. Image uses low-resolution pixel art style with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan text reading 'I think its sad to be ALONE' against black background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080123192915728846852

Mood

  • melancholic
  • solitary

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polar bear sad alone pixel art
  • cyan text I think its sad to be ALONE
  • low-res polar bear snow cyan text
  • melancholic polar bear pixel art

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • polar bear

Visible Text

  • I think its sad
  • to be
  • ALONE

Wordwall

  • polar bear
  • snow background
  • cyan text
  • blocky font
  • I think its sad
  • to be ALONE
  • low-resolution pixel art
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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
20080123192915728846852
Archive entry
20080123192915728846852.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 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#20080123192915728846852.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080123192915728846852.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016