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Pixelated hippopotamus head on left, bright pink background with yellow text reading 'you 2 im' and 'dont tell hot need me i kno'.

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Pixelated hippopotamus head on left, bright pink background with yellow text reading 'you 2 im' and 'dont tell hot need me i kno'.

Pixelated hippopotamus head on left, bright pink background with yellow text reading 'you 2 im' and 'dont tell hot need me i kno'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Composition

  • left: hippopotamus head on natural background; right: solid color with text blocks

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated hippopotamus head facing right against light blue sky and brown ground. Right side has solid bright pink background with yellow pixelated text: top-right reads 'you 2 im', bottom-right reads 'need me i kno', bottom-left reads 'dont tell hot'. Text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. Hippopotamus appears to be in natural setting with visible ears and open mouth showing teeth.

Description

  • Pixelated hippopotamus head on left, bright pink background with yellow text reading 'you 2 im' and 'dont tell hot need me i kno'.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • 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
  • 20071013183428502274524
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hippopotamus pixelated text bright pink background
  • you 2 im dont tell hot need me i kno
  • pixelated hippo yellow text pink
  • bright pink background hippos head

Visible Text

  • you 2 im
  • dont tell hot
  • need me i kno

Wordwall

  • hippopotamus
  • pixelated
  • bright pink background
  • yellow text
  • you 2 im
  • dont tell hot
  • need me i kno
  • light blue sky
  • brown ground

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071013183428502274524
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 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 14:50 UTC
Archive ID
4a22902b2bad67a2
SHA-256
4a22902b2bad67a22552022bcc1efb04d0876ca7e28fbf0cd23b97a6b60df3b0
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:12 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.133772

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Pixelated hippopotamus head on left, bright pink background with yellow text reading 'you 2 im' and 'dont tell hot need me i kno'.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 09:51 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,207 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 656

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • bright pink
  • yellow
  • light blue
  • brown
  • gray

Composition

  • left: hippopotamus head on natural background; right: solid color with text blocks

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated hippopotamus head facing right against light blue sky and brown ground. Right side has solid bright pink background with yellow pixelated text: top-right reads 'you 2 im', bottom-right reads 'need me i kno', bottom-left reads 'dont tell hot'. Text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. Hippopotamus appears to be in natural setting with visible ears and open mouth showing teeth.

Description

  • Pixelated hippopotamus head on left, bright pink background with yellow text reading 'you 2 im' and 'dont tell hot need me i kno'.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • 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
  • 20071013183428502274524
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hippopotamus pixelated text bright pink background
  • you 2 im dont tell hot need me i kno
  • pixelated hippo yellow text pink
  • bright pink background hippos head

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution digital graphics
  • blocky text font

Subjects

  • hippopotamus

Visible Text

  • you 2 im
  • dont tell hot
  • need me i kno

Wordwall

  • hippopotamus
  • pixelated
  • bright pink background
  • yellow text
  • you 2 im
  • dont tell hot
  • need me i kno
  • light blue sky
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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
20071013183428502274524
Archive entry
20071013183428502274524.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 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#20071013183428502274524.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071013183428502274524.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016