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Pixelated image of a polar bear on snow with cyan background and text 'save the polar bears' in black pixel font.

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Pixelated image of a polar bear on snow with cyan background and text 'save the polar bears' in black pixel font.

Pixelated image of a polar bear on snow with cyan background and text 'save the polar bears' in black pixel font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split 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, small dark eyes, and a black nose. Right side features solid cyan background with black pixelated text reading 'save the polar bears' in two lines: 'save the' above 'polar bears'. Image uses low-resolution 8-bit style rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a polar bear on snow with cyan background and text 'save the polar bears' in black pixel 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
  • cyan text background polar bear
  • low resolution polar bear image

Visible Text

  • save the polar bears

Visually Supported Entities

  • polar bear

Wordwall

  • pixelated polar bear
  • snow background
  • cyan background
  • black pixel font
  • save the polar bears
  • sitting pose
  • light gray fur
  • dark shading on back

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090925191826111540576
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
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/62/620299a304e1b9d3e7a2b0e74c98d2f79d18ad45739868600d4e3c47506516bd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
620299a304e1b9d3
SHA-256
620299a304e1b9d3e7a2b0e74c98d2f79d18ad45739868600d4e3c47506516bd
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:40 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.119256

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a polar bear on snow with cyan background and text 'save the polar bears' in black pixel font.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 18:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,710 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,149, response 579

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • environmental (mood, 0.80)
  • urgent (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • polar bear (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • split 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, small dark eyes, and a black nose. Right side features solid cyan background with black pixelated text reading 'save the polar bears' in two lines: 'save the' above 'polar bears'. Image uses low-resolution 8-bit style rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a polar bear on snow with cyan background and text 'save the polar bears' in black pixel 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

  • urgent
  • environmental

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • save the polar bears
  • pixelated polar bear cyan background
  • cyan text background polar bear
  • low resolution polar bear image

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • polar bear

Visible Text

  • save the polar bears

Visually Supported Entities

  • polar bear

Wordwall

  • pixelated polar bear
  • snow background
  • cyan background
  • black pixel font
  • save the polar bears
  • sitting pose
  • light gray fur
  • dark shading on back
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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
20090925191826111540576
Archive entry
20090925191826111540576.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#20090925191826111540576.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090925191826111540576.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016