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Pixelated yellow character with large white eyes and tears, holding a brown object against a blue background, with overlaid text reading "teddies dont al ways hug back but sometimes".

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Pixelated yellow character with large white eyes and tears, holding a brown object against a blue background, with overlaid text reading "teddies dont al ways hug back but sometimes".

Pixelated yellow character with large white eyes and tears, holding a brown object against a blue background, with overlaid text reading "teddies dont al ways hug back but sometim…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • character centered
  • text arranged in multiple lines

Dense Caption

Pixelated yellow character with large white eyes and tears, holding a brown object against a blue background, with overlaid text reading "teddies dont al ways hug back but sometimes". The character has a rounded head, simple limbs, and a small brown object held close to its chest. The background is a solid blue with a thin horizontal line. Text is white, pixelated, and arranged in multiple lines. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style.

Description

Pixelated yellow character with large white eyes and tears, holding a brown object against a blue background, with overlaid text reading "teddies dont al ways hug back but sometimes".

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070814095026328652418

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • teddies dont al ways hug back
  • yellow character tears
  • blue background pixel art
  • buddy icon text

Preprocessing Notes

  • text contains spelling errors: 'dont', 'al ways'

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Uncertain Text

  • al ways

Visible Text

  • teddies dont al ways hug back
  • but
  • sometimes

Wordwall

  • yellow character
  • large white eyes
  • tears
  • brown object
  • blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • teddies dont al ways hug back
  • but sometimes
  • pixelated art
  • low-resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070814095026328652418
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.2 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 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
3831590ac38b24ea
SHA-256
3831590ac38b24ea895291534351780e32e4a7a840ff10868f506c427694a6f6
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:42 UTC
Run
107
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated yellow character with large white eyes and tears, holding a brown object against a blue background, with overlaid text reading "teddies dont al ways hug back but sometimes".

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 23:26 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,002 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 731

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  • tearing (action, 0.80)
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  • blue
  • brown

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  • text arranged in multiple lines

Dense Caption

Pixelated yellow character with large white eyes and tears, holding a brown object against a blue background, with overlaid text reading "teddies dont al ways hug back but sometimes". The character has a rounded head, simple limbs, and a small brown object held close to its chest. The background is a solid blue with a thin horizontal line. Text is white, pixelated, and arranged in multiple lines. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style.

Description

Pixelated yellow character with large white eyes and tears, holding a brown object against a blue background, with overlaid text reading "teddies dont al ways hug back but sometimes".

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070814095026328652418

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

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  • sentimental

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  • teddies dont al ways hug back
  • yellow character tears
  • blue background pixel art
  • buddy icon text

Objects

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Preprocessing Notes

  • text contains spelling errors: 'dont', 'al ways'

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
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  • tears
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
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Run
52
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v5
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Error
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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
20070814095026328652418
Archive entry
20070814095026328652418.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#20070814095026328652418.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070814095026328652418.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016