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Pixelated image of a hippopotamus on the left and blue background with text on the right.

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Pixelated image of a hippopotamus on the left and blue background with text on the right.

Pixelated image of a hippopotamus on the left and blue background with text on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split left-right
  • text on right
  • image on left

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated hippopotamus with light brown and gray tones, positioned on a brown ground with a light blue sky background. Right side has a solid bright blue background with black text: 'FUN' at top, 'university' below it, '!!!!!!' in the middle, and 'F U' at bottom. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a hippopotamus on the left and blue background with text on the 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hippopotamus pixelated blue background
  • FUN university F U text
  • pixelated hippo blue sky
  • text FUN university F U

Visible Text

  • FUN
  • university
  • !!!!!!
  • F
  • U

Wordwall

  • hippopotamus
  • pixelated
  • light brown
  • gray
  • brown ground
  • light blue sky
  • bright blue background
  • black text
  • FUN
  • university
  • !!!!!!
  • F U

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708201309061327414735
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6a/6abb8d8ff139cc6273cbc3c3562b7945f17aa5763bc049e2dd286db7d759874f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
6abb8d8ff139cc62
SHA-256
6abb8d8ff139cc6273cbc3c3562b7945f17aa5763bc049e2dd286db7d759874f
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 04:14 UTC
Run
1284
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010192

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:49 UTC
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1039
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Overall score
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a hippopotamus on the left and blue background with text on the right.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 02:45 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,315 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 581

Review tags

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  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
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  • light brown
  • gray
  • brown
  • light blue
  • bright blue
  • black

Composition

  • split left-right
  • text on right
  • image on left

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated hippopotamus with light brown and gray tones, positioned on a brown ground with a light blue sky background. Right side has a solid bright blue background with black text: 'FUN' at top, 'university' below it, '!!!!!!' in the middle, and 'F U' at bottom. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a hippopotamus on the left and blue background with text on the 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

Mood

  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hippopotamus pixelated blue background
  • FUN university F U text
  • pixelated hippo blue sky
  • text FUN university F U

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • hippopotamus

Visible Text

  • FUN
  • university
  • !!!!!!
  • F
  • U

Wordwall

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  • pixelated
  • light brown
  • gray
  • brown ground
  • light blue sky
  • bright blue background
  • black text
  • FUN
  • university
  • !!!!!!
  • F U
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:21 UTC
Run
52
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
200708201309061327414735
Archive entry
200708201309061327414735.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#200708201309061327414735.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708201309061327414735.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016