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Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with a bright pink background and overlaid text.

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Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with a bright pink background and overlaid text.

Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with a bright pink background and overlaid text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy I…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • bear centered on left
  • text on right and bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with a bright pink background. The bear has light gray and white fur, black eyes, and a black nose. Overlaid text includes "LauraW102" in dark purple on the right side, and "luvs polar bears" in dark purple at the bottom. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with a bright pink background and overlaid text.

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

  • polar bear pixel art
  • pink background text
  • LauraW102 polar bears
  • luvs polar bears pixel

Visible Text

  • LauraW102
  • luvs
  • polar bears

Wordwall

  • polar bear
  • snow
  • pink background
  • pixelated
  • LauraW102
  • luvs polar bears
  • dark purple text
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital art

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091201112708900067869
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 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 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
3153dbeaa1a02c60
SHA-256
3153dbeaa1a02c605d81f0eac4b70952fe5d9d31aa94018618840d7fa882b4fc
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 00:56 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.010112

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July 23, 2026 at 07:35 UTC
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Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with a bright pink background and overlaid text.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 20:52 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,455 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 576

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark purple (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • polar bear (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • light gray
  • white
  • black
  • dark purple

Composition

  • bear centered on left
  • text on right and bottom

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with a bright pink background. The bear has light gray and white fur, black eyes, and a black nose. Overlaid text includes "LauraW102" in dark purple on the right side, and "luvs polar bears" in dark purple at the bottom. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with a bright pink background and overlaid text.

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

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polar bear pixel art
  • pink background text
  • LauraW102 polar bears
  • luvs polar bears pixel

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital art

Subjects

  • polar bear

Visible Text

  • LauraW102
  • luvs
  • polar bears

Wordwall

  • polar bear
  • snow
  • pink background
  • pixelated
  • LauraW102
  • luvs polar bears
  • dark purple text
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital 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
20091201112708900067869
Archive entry
20091201112708900067869.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#20091201112708900067869.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091201112708900067869.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016