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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background displaying 'Merry Christmas', 'Let It Snow', and 'ilu<3' text.

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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background displaying 'Merry Christmas', 'Let It Snow', and 'ilu<3' text.

Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background displaying 'Merry Christmas', 'Let It Snow', and 'ilu<3' text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

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

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated polar bear sitting on snow, facing left. Right side has solid bright blue background. Top right displays 'Merry' in white pixel font. Middle right displays 'Christmas' in same font. Bottom left displays 'Let It Snow' stacked vertically. Bottom right displays 'ilu<3'. All text is white with black outline. Polar bear is light gray and white, sitting on snow-covered ground.

Description

  • Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background displaying 'Merry Christmas', 'Let It Snow', and 'ilu<3' text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712031807091782313362

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polar bear merry christmas
  • let it snow ilu<3
  • merry christmas polar bear icon
  • ilu<3 let it snow

Visible Text

  • Merry
  • Christmas
  • Let It Snow
  • ilu<3

Wordwall

  • polar bear
  • snow background
  • bright blue background
  • Merry Christmas text
  • Let It Snow text
  • ilu<3 text
  • pixelated style
  • white pixel font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712031807091782313362
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6d/6de750d7959c658e6391b4a13c075a4e3c1d3521feed24c2357d64dfbd95cc09.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC
Archive ID
6de750d7959c658e
SHA-256
6de750d7959c658e6391b4a13c075a4e3c1d3521feed24c2357d64dfbd95cc09
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:52 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076420

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background displaying 'Merry Christmas', 'Let It Snow', and 'ilu<3' text.

Reviewed
July 30, 2026 at 23:01 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,599 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 602

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • bright blue (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
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  • snow (object, 0.80)
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  • polar bear (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • bright blue
  • light gray
  • white
  • black

Composition

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

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated polar bear sitting on snow, facing left. Right side has solid bright blue background. Top right displays 'Merry' in white pixel font. Middle right displays 'Christmas' in same font. Bottom left displays 'Let It Snow' stacked vertically. Bottom right displays 'ilu<3'. All text is white with black outline. Polar bear is light gray and white, sitting on snow-covered ground.

Description

  • Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background displaying 'Merry Christmas', 'Let It Snow', and 'ilu<3' text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712031807091782313362

Mood

  • festive
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polar bear merry christmas
  • let it snow ilu<3
  • merry christmas polar bear icon
  • ilu<3 let it snow

Objects

  • snow

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • polar bear

Visible Text

  • Merry
  • Christmas
  • Let It Snow
  • ilu<3

Wordwall

  • polar bear
  • snow background
  • bright blue background
  • Merry Christmas text
  • Let It Snow text
  • ilu<3 text
  • pixelated style
  • white pixel font
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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
200712031807091782313362
Archive entry
200712031807091782313362.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 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#200712031807091782313362.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712031807091782313362.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016