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Pixelated hippo image with blue background and white text reading "Going back school is like Getting eaten by this hippo".

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Pixelated hippo image with blue background and white text reading "Going back school is like Getting eaten by this hippo".

Pixelated hippo image with blue background and white text reading "Going back school is like Getting eaten by this hippo". Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left: hippo with sky/ground background
  • right: solid blue background with text

Dense Caption

The image features a pixelated hippopotamus on the left side, positioned against a light blue sky and brown ground background. The hippo has a grayish-brown body with visible texture and a slightly open mouth. The right side of the image has a solid blue background with white pixelated text. The text reads "Going back school" at the top, "is like" in the middle left, and "Getting eaten by this hippo" on the right side. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation and blocky text.

Description

  • Pixelated hippo image with blue background and white text reading "Going back school is like Getting eaten by this hippo".

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708231036292059324299

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hippo school humor
  • going back school hippo
  • eaten by hippo text
  • pixelated hippo blue background
  • retro digital art school
  • is like getting eaten
  • blue background white text
  • school humor pixel art

Visible Text

  • Going back school
  • is like
  • Getting eaten by this hippo

Wordwall

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  • blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • Going back school
  • is like
  • Getting eaten by this hippo
  • light blue sky
  • brown ground
  • grayish-brown hippo
  • slightly open mouth
  • retro digital art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708231036292059324299
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 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 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
7259e4494a09931e
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 9, 2026 at 00:44 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:56 UTC
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Enrichment records (2)
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Pixelated hippo image with blue background and white text reading "Going back school is like Getting eaten by this hippo".

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 04:17 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,259 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 816

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  • is like (action, 0.80)
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  • hippo (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • is like
  • Getting eaten by

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • grayish-brown
  • light blue
  • brown

Composition

  • left: hippo with sky/ground background
  • right: solid blue background with text

Dense Caption

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Description

  • Pixelated hippo image with blue background and white text reading "Going back school is like Getting eaten by this hippo".

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

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  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
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Mood

  • humorous
  • playful

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  • going back school hippo
  • eaten by hippo text
  • pixelated hippo blue background
  • retro digital art school
  • is like getting eaten
  • blue background white text
  • school humor pixel art

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  • school
  • hippo

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  • blocky text

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  • Going back school
  • is like
  • Getting eaten by this hippo

Wordwall

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  • is like
  • Getting eaten by this hippo
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  • brown ground
  • grayish-brown hippo
  • slightly open mouth
  • retro digital art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky text
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
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Run
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v5
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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
200708231036292059324299
Archive entry
200708231036292059324299.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#200708231036292059324299.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708231036292059324299.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016