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Pixelated hippopotamus head on left, green background with blue text reading 'they call me the hipho opotamus' and 'my rhymes are bottomless' on right.

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Pixelated hippopotamus head on left, green background with blue text reading 'they call me the hipho opotamus' and 'my rhymes are bottomless' on right.

Pixelated hippopotamus head on left, green background with blue text reading 'they call me the hipho opotamus' and 'my rhymes are bottomless' on right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM budd…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with text and hippo head.

Composition

  • left: hippo head on sky/ground background; right: green text area with two text blocks

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated hippopotamus head facing right against light blue sky and brown ground. Right side has solid green background with blue pixelated text: top line reads 'they call me', middle line 'the hipho opotamus', bottom left 'my rhymes are bottomless', and bottom right six dots followed by ten dots. Text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. Hippo's skin is brownish-gray with visible pixelation. Background colors include light blue (sky), brown (ground), solid green (text area).

Description

Pixelated hippopotamus head on left, green background with blue text reading 'they call me the hipho opotamus' and 'my rhymes are bottomless' on right.

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
  • 20071220144229374450364

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hippopotamus pixel art
  • blue text green background
  • they call me hipho opotamus
  • my rhymes are bottomless
  • six dots ten dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • text 'e the hiphop' likely partial reading of 'the hippopotamus' due to pixelation and cropping

Visible Text

  • they call me
  • e the hiphop
  • opotamus
  • my rhymes
  • are
  • bottomless

Wordwall

  • hippopotamus head
  • pixelated image
  • light blue sky background
  • brown ground background
  • solid green text background
  • blue blocky font
  • 'they call me' text
  • 'the hipho opotamus' text
  • 'my rhymes are bottomless' text
  • six dots followed by ten dots

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071220144229374450364
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/69/6976390a1b434d987bdb604cee42032829cd8a9d0e399e9288c936c58b51a818.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC
Archive ID
6976390a1b434d98
SHA-256
6976390a1b434d987bdb604cee42032829cd8a9d0e399e9288c936c58b51a818
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:48 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.205842

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated hippopotamus head on left, green background with blue text reading 'they call me the hipho opotamus' and 'my rhymes are bottomless' on right.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 03:18 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,864 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 709

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hippopotamus head (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with text and hippo head.

Colors

  • light blue
  • brown
  • green
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • left: hippo head on sky/ground background; right: green text area with two text blocks

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated hippopotamus head facing right against light blue sky and brown ground. Right side has solid green background with blue pixelated text: top line reads 'they call me', middle line 'the hipho opotamus', bottom left 'my rhymes are bottomless', and bottom right six dots followed by ten dots. Text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. Hippo's skin is brownish-gray with visible pixelation. Background colors include light blue (sky), brown (ground), solid green (text area).

Description

Pixelated hippopotamus head on left, green background with blue text reading 'they call me the hipho opotamus' and 'my rhymes are bottomless' on right.

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
  • 20071220144229374450364

Mood

  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hippopotamus pixel art
  • blue text green background
  • they call me hipho opotamus
  • my rhymes are bottomless
  • six dots ten dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • text 'e the hiphop' likely partial reading of 'the hippopotamus' due to pixelation and cropping

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution digital graphics

Subjects

  • hippopotamus head

Visible Text

  • they call me
  • e the hiphop
  • opotamus
  • my rhymes
  • are
  • bottomless

Wordwall

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  • pixelated image
  • light blue sky background
  • brown ground background
  • solid green text background
  • blue blocky font
  • 'they call me' text
  • 'the hipho opotamus' text
  • 'my rhymes are bottomless' text
  • six dots followed by ten dots
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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
20071220144229374450364
Archive entry
20071220144229374450364.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 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#20071220144229374450364.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071220144229374450364.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016