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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan text 'SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!' on bright pink background.

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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan text 'SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!' on bright pink background.

Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan text 'SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!' on bright pink background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left: polar bear on snow
  • right top: cyan text on pink
  • bottom left: solid pink
  • bottom right: solid gray

Dense Caption

A pixelated image shows a light gray and white polar bear sitting on snowy ground. The bear has black eyes, nose, and mouth. To the right of the bear is a solid bright pink rectangular area containing cyan blocky text that reads 'SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!' with an exclamation mark below it. The bottom half of the image consists of two large rectangles: left side bright pink, right side light gray.

Description

  • Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan text 'SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!' on bright pink 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • save the polar bears
  • polar bear pixel art
  • cyan text pink background
  • snow polar bear image

Visible Text

  • SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!

Visually Supported Entities

  • polar bear

Wordwall

  • pixelated polar bear
  • snow background
  • cyan text
  • 'SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!'
  • bright pink rectangle
  • light gray rectangle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805111740552117827367
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3e/3eb271d1012b3e3e674e0442109d22003c1c1fe16d2e285bafff5b172f704c2a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC
Archive ID
3eb271d1012b3e3e
SHA-256
3eb271d1012b3e3e674e0442109d22003c1c1fe16d2e285bafff5b172f704c2a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:49 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.189101

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan text 'SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!' on bright pink background.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 14:18 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,660 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 588

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • environmental (mood, 0.80)
  • urgent (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • polar bear (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • white
  • cyan
  • pink
  • black

Composition

  • left: polar bear on snow
  • right top: cyan text on pink
  • bottom left: solid pink
  • bottom right: solid gray

Dense Caption

A pixelated image shows a light gray and white polar bear sitting on snowy ground. The bear has black eyes, nose, and mouth. To the right of the bear is a solid bright pink rectangular area containing cyan blocky text that reads 'SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!' with an exclamation mark below it. The bottom half of the image consists of two large rectangles: left side bright pink, right side light gray.

Description

  • Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan text 'SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!' on bright pink 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

Mood

  • urgent
  • environmental

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • save the polar bears
  • polar bear pixel art
  • cyan text pink background
  • snow polar bear image

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • polar bear

Visible Text

  • SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!

Visually Supported Entities

  • polar bear

Wordwall

  • pixelated polar bear
  • snow background
  • cyan text
  • 'SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!'
  • bright pink rectangle
  • light gray rectangle
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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
200805111740552117827367
Archive entry
200805111740552117827367.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 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#200805111740552117827367.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805111740552117827367.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016