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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan background and text 'save the polar bears' in blocky font.

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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan background and text 'save the polar bears' in blocky font.

Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan background and text 'save the polar bears' in blocky font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left: animal on snow; right: text on solid background

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated polar bear sitting on snow, facing left. The bear has light gray fur with darker shading on its back and legs. Its eyes are black dots, nose is solid black, mouth is not visible. Right side features cyan background with bold black text 'save the polar bears' in blocky font; 'polar bears' partially cut off at right edge. Image uses low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan background and text 'save the polar bears' in blocky font.

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
  • pixelated polar bear cyan background
  • polar bear sitting snow text
  • cyan blocky text save

Visible Text

  • save the polar bears

Visually Supported Entities

  • polar bear

Wordwall

  • pixelated polar bear
  • sitting on snow
  • cyan background
  • blocky text
  • save the polar bears
  • light gray fur
  • black eyes
  • solid black nose

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200909251919241114626969
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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/54/54b901e899d836e9583e6deeac959d25de78e02efc30c149dc051a897fefbf6c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
54b901e899d836e9
SHA-256
54b901e899d836e9583e6deeac959d25de78e02efc30c149dc051a897fefbf6c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:26 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.115480

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan background and text 'save the polar bears' in blocky font.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 18:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,456 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 570

Review tags

  • sitting (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • snow (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • polar bear (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • sitting

Colors

  • cyan
  • gray
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • left: animal on snow; right: text on solid background

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated polar bear sitting on snow, facing left. The bear has light gray fur with darker shading on its back and legs. Its eyes are black dots, nose is solid black, mouth is not visible. Right side features cyan background with bold black text 'save the polar bears' in blocky font; 'polar bears' partially cut off at right edge. Image uses low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan background and text 'save the polar bears' in blocky font.

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

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • save the polar bears
  • pixelated polar bear cyan background
  • polar bear sitting snow text
  • cyan blocky text save

Objects

  • snow

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • polar bear

Visible Text

  • save the polar bears

Visually Supported Entities

  • polar bear

Wordwall

  • pixelated polar bear
  • sitting on snow
  • cyan background
  • blocky text
  • save the polar bears
  • light gray fur
  • black eyes
  • solid black nose
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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
200909251919241114626969
Archive entry
200909251919241114626969.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#200909251919241114626969.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200909251919241114626969.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016