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Pixelated image of a polar bear cub on snow with purple background and yellow text urging environmental action.

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Pixelated image of a polar bear cub on snow with purple background and yellow text urging environmental action.

Pixelated image of a polar bear cub on snow with purple background and yellow text urging environmental action. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split left-right
  • text stacked vertically right
  • cub centered on snow background left

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated polar bear cub sitting on light blue-gray snow, facing left. Right side has solid purple background with stacked yellow block letters: 'SAVE THE POLAR BEAR CUBSS!!!' then three heart symbols '<3 <3 <3', followed by 'STOP GLOBAL WARMING!!' and 'RECYCLE!!!'. Text uses 8-bit pixel font style. Cub's fur is white-gray, eyes black dots, nose dark gray. Background snow has light blue and white pixels.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a polar bear cub on snow with purple background and yellow text urging environmental action.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080725143756766980472

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polar bear cub snow yellow text purple background
  • save the polar bear cubs stop global warming recycle
  • <3 <3 <3 environmental message
  • pixelated 8-bit font urgent conservation

Visible Text

  • SAVE THE POLAR BEAR CUBSS!!!
  • <3 <3 <3
  • STOP GLOBAL WARMING!!
  • RECYCLE!!!

Wordwall

  • polar bear cub
  • snow background
  • purple background
  • yellow text
  • SAVE THE POLAR BEAR CUBSS!!!
  • <3 <3 <3
  • STOP GLOBAL WARMING!!
  • RECYCLE!!!
  • pixelated image
  • 8-bit font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080725143756766980472
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
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 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
4fc10876aff2bbf4
SHA-256
4fc10876aff2bbf4e718745ceb90c4ba4eee586281875cdba19c70390833cb90
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:20 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082809

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Pixelated image of a polar bear cub on snow with purple background and yellow text urging environmental action.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 14:09 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,557 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 712

Review tags

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  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • environmental (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
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  • snow (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
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  • polar bear cub (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • yellow
  • white
  • gray
  • black

Composition

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  • text stacked vertically right
  • cub centered on snow background left

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated polar bear cub sitting on light blue-gray snow, facing left. Right side has solid purple background with stacked yellow block letters: 'SAVE THE POLAR BEAR CUBSS!!!' then three heart symbols '<3 <3 <3', followed by 'STOP GLOBAL WARMING!!' and 'RECYCLE!!!'. Text uses 8-bit pixel font style. Cub's fur is white-gray, eyes black dots, nose dark gray. Background snow has light blue and white pixels.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a polar bear cub on snow with purple background and yellow text urging environmental action.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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  • 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

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  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080725143756766980472

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  • save the polar bear cubs stop global warming recycle
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  • snow
  • hearts

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  • <3 <3 <3
  • STOP GLOBAL WARMING!!
  • RECYCLE!!!

Wordwall

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  • <3 <3 <3
  • STOP GLOBAL WARMING!!
  • RECYCLE!!!
  • pixelated image
  • 8-bit font
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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
20080725143756766980472
Archive entry
20080725143756766980472.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#20080725143756766980472.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080725143756766980472.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016