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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan text 'Save The Polar Bears' on black background.

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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan text 'Save The Polar Bears' on black background.

Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan text 'Save The Polar Bears' on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; static image with pixelated polar bear and cyan text on black background.

Composition

  • bear on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a polar bear with light gray and white fur sitting on snow. The bear has black eyes and nose, facing left. To the right, cyan pixelated text reads 'Save The Polar Bears' on a solid black background. The image uses a low-resolution, blocky rendering style with visible pixelation. The bear's posture is seated with front paws visible. Snow background is light blue and white. No animation observed in this static frame.

Description

  • Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan text 'Save The Polar Bears' on 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
  • 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 snow cyan text
  • pixelated polar bear save the polar bears
  • seated polar bear cyan text black background
  • polar bear save the polar bears pixelated
  • cyan text save the polar bears polar bear
  • polar bear snow black background cyan text
  • save the polar bears polar bear pixelated
  • polar bear cyan text black background

Visible Text

  • Save The Polar Bears

Wordwall

  • polar bear
  • snow background
  • cyan text
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • seated
  • light gray fur
  • white fur
  • black eyes
  • black nose
  • 'Save The Polar Bears' text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810251554241377854626
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/32/32faf3660739e8bc8dd8af946722a3692687e7f6693ceaf800e5e6c935f1b109.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
32faf3660739e8bc
SHA-256
32faf3660739e8bc8dd8af946722a3692687e7f6693ceaf800e5e6c935f1b109
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:31 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.124511

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan text 'Save The Polar Bears' on black background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 05:39 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,292 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 757

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • snow (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • polar bear (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; static image with pixelated polar bear and cyan text on black background.

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • light gray
  • white

Composition

  • bear on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a polar bear with light gray and white fur sitting on snow. The bear has black eyes and nose, facing left. To the right, cyan pixelated text reads 'Save The Polar Bears' on a solid black background. The image uses a low-resolution, blocky rendering style with visible pixelation. The bear's posture is seated with front paws visible. Snow background is light blue and white. No animation observed in this static frame.

Description

  • Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan text 'Save The Polar Bears' on 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
  • 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

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  • polar bear cyan text black background

Objects

  • snow

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • polar bear

Visible Text

  • Save The Polar Bears

Wordwall

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  • snow background
  • cyan text
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • seated
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  • black nose
  • 'Save The Polar Bears' 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
200810251554241377854626
Archive entry
200810251554241377854626.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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

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