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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background displaying 'Save Me! <3' text.

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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background displaying 'Save Me! <3' text.

Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background displaying 'Save Me! <3' text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left half: polar bear on snow
  • right half: solid blue background with text

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a polar bear with light gray and white fur sitting on snow-covered ground. The bear has black eyes and nose, facing left with a neutral expression. Right side features solid blue background with white pixelated text reading 'Save Me!' on top line and '<3' below it. Snow background shows light blue and white pixels. Image uses low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering.

Description

  • Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background displaying 'Save Me! <3' text.

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

  • polar bear save me
  • save me <3 polar bear
  • pixel art polar bear
  • blue background polar bear
  • snow polar bear

Visible Text

  • Save Me!
  • <3

Wordwall

  • polar bear
  • snow
  • blue background
  • Save Me!
  • <3
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • black eyes
  • black nose
  • light gray fur
  • white fur
  • snow-covered ground
  • solid blue background
  • white text
  • pixel art
  • dithering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901101547031171813898
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/65/6527208155d526063442daa57674744d6d5a39687132f726febfbaef1b4408d1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Archive ID
6527208155d52606
SHA-256
6527208155d526063442daa57674744d6d5a39687132f726febfbaef1b4408d1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:43 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.115982

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background displaying 'Save Me! <3' text.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 17:30 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,967 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 599

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • dithering (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • polar bear (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light gray
  • white
  • black
  • blue
  • light blue

Composition

  • left half: polar bear on snow
  • right half: solid blue background with text

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a polar bear with light gray and white fur sitting on snow-covered ground. The bear has black eyes and nose, facing left with a neutral expression. Right side features solid blue background with white pixelated text reading 'Save Me!' on top line and '<3' below it. Snow background shows light blue and white pixels. Image uses low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering.

Description

  • Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background displaying 'Save Me! <3' text.

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

  • polar bear save me
  • save me <3 polar bear
  • pixel art polar bear
  • blue background polar bear
  • snow polar bear

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithering

Subjects

  • polar bear

Visible Text

  • Save Me!
  • <3

Wordwall

  • polar bear
  • snow
  • blue background
  • Save Me!
  • <3
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • black eyes
  • black nose
  • light gray fur
  • white fur
  • snow-covered ground
  • solid blue background
  • white text
  • pixel art
  • dithering
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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
200901101547031171813898
Archive entry
200901101547031171813898.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 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#200901101547031171813898.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901101547031171813898.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016