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Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with cyan text 'mee' below and 'plzz' to the right, 'soye' above on white background.

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Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with cyan text 'mee' below and 'plzz' to the right, 'soye' above on white background.

Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with cyan text 'mee' below and 'plzz' to the right, 'soye' above on white background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes

Composition

  • bear centered left
  • text distributed around bear

Dense Caption

Pixelated polar bear with light gray and white fur sits on snow-covered ground, facing left with dark eyes and nose. Cyan text 'mee' appears below the bear, 'plzz' to the right, and 'soye' above on white background. The bear's posture is seated with front paws extended forward. Snow texture visible in background. All text uses blocky, pixelated font style. No clothing or props visible on the bear. Background is solid white except for snow texture behind the bear. The image has low resolution typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with cyan text 'mee' below and 'plzz' to the right, 'soye' above on white 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polar bear cyan text snow
  • mee plzz soye text
  • pixelated polar bear snow
  • cyan text polar bear
  • polar bear seated snow
  • mee plzz cyan text
  • polar bear snow background
  • cyan text meep plzz

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected

Visible Text

  • mee
  • plzz
  • soye

Wordwall

  • polar bear
  • snow background
  • cyan text
  • pixelated
  • seated pose
  • blocky font
  • light gray fur
  • white fur
  • dark eyes
  • black nose
  • snow texture
  • mee text
  • plzz text
  • soye text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806282008171630592782
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
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2f/2f88e081ce64951f0cb3410aa72f613caf5106b53f5b275ff85e83cb6d072a73.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
2f88e081ce64951f
SHA-256
2f88e081ce64951f0cb3410aa72f613caf5106b53f5b275ff85e83cb6d072a73
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 2, 2026 at 23:26 UTC
Run
1254
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001279

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:33 UTC
Run
107
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with cyan text 'mee' below and 'plzz' to the right, 'soye' above on white background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 09:22 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,061 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 798

Review tags

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  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • snow white (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • polar bear (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes

Colors

  • cyan
  • white
  • light gray
  • gray
  • black
  • snow white

Composition

  • bear centered left
  • text distributed around bear

Dense Caption

Pixelated polar bear with light gray and white fur sits on snow-covered ground, facing left with dark eyes and nose. Cyan text 'mee' appears below the bear, 'plzz' to the right, and 'soye' above on white background. The bear's posture is seated with front paws extended forward. Snow texture visible in background. All text uses blocky, pixelated font style. No clothing or props visible on the bear. Background is solid white except for snow texture behind the bear. The image has low resolution typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with cyan text 'mee' below and 'plzz' to the right, 'soye' above on white 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected

Style

  • pixelated
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  • low resolution

Subjects

  • polar bear

Visible Text

  • mee
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  • soye

Wordwall

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  • seated pose
  • blocky font
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  • mee text
  • plzz text
  • soye 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
200806282008171630592782
Archive entry
200806282008171630592782.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#200806282008171630592782.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806282008171630592782.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016