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Pixelated gummy bears on a purple background with green text reading 'we're even cute when we're gummy!' in four separate segments.

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Pixelated gummy bears on a purple background with green text reading 'we're even cute when we're gummy!' in four separate segments.

Pixelated gummy bears on a purple background with green text reading 'we're even cute when we're gummy!' in four separate segments. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-left quadrant
  • four text segments
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated gummy bears in red, green, yellow, and brown hues occupy the top-left quadrant on a solid purple background. Green pixelated text appears in four segments: 'we're' at top-right, 'even' below it, 'cute' at bottom-left, and 'when we're gummy!' at bottom-right. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation. Text uses a blocky, 8-bit font. The gummy bears are arranged in a dense cluster with no visible background elements beyond the purple field.

Description

  • Pixelated gummy bears on a purple background with green text reading 'we're even cute when we're gummy!' in four separate segments.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • 200803041423021927571623

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gummy bears purple background
  • green text pixelated
  • cute when we're gummy
  • 8-bit font gummy bears
  • retro digital art gummy bears
  • purple background green text
  • gummy bears playful mood
  • cute gummy bears text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Visible Text

  • we're
  • even
  • cute
  • when
  • gummy!

Wordwall

  • gummy bears
  • purple background
  • green text
  • pixelated
  • 8-bit font
  • cute
  • even
  • gummy
  • we're
  • when

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803041423021927571623
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 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 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
677f9df5c98b837c
SHA-256
677f9df5c98b837cf464a30a7df132ea70edb642e01a25bb10c1c15a17fe9316
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:46 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.107258

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated gummy bears on a purple background with green text reading 'we're even cute when we're gummy!' in four separate segments.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,067 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 803

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
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  • whimsical (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital art (style, 0.80)
  • gummy bears (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • purple
  • green
  • red
  • yellow
  • brown

Composition

  • top-left quadrant
  • four text segments
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated gummy bears in red, green, yellow, and brown hues occupy the top-left quadrant on a solid purple background. Green pixelated text appears in four segments: 'we're' at top-right, 'even' below it, 'cute' at bottom-left, and 'when we're gummy!' at bottom-right. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation. Text uses a blocky, 8-bit font. The gummy bears are arranged in a dense cluster with no visible background elements beyond the purple field.

Description

  • Pixelated gummy bears on a purple background with green text reading 'we're even cute when we're gummy!' in four separate segments.

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
  • 2007-2016
  • 200803041423021927571623

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • whimsical

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • green text pixelated
  • cute when we're gummy
  • 8-bit font gummy bears
  • retro digital art gummy bears
  • purple background green text
  • gummy bears playful mood
  • cute gummy bears text

Objects

  • gummy bears

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
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Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • retro digital art

Subjects

  • gummy bears

Visible Text

  • we're
  • even
  • cute
  • when
  • gummy!

Wordwall

  • gummy bears
  • purple background
  • green text
  • pixelated
  • 8-bit font
  • cute
  • even
  • gummy
  • we're
  • when
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:44 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200803041423021927571623
Archive entry
200803041423021927571623.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#200803041423021927571623.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803041423021927571623.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016