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Pixelated image of a polar bear on a snowy background with pink text reading 'winter' on the right side.

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Pixelated image of a polar bear on a snowy background with pink text reading 'winter' on the right side.

Pixelated image of a polar bear on a snowy background with pink text reading 'winter' on the right side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Animation Summary

  • The image is static with no visible motion changes across observations.

Composition

  • vertical division
  • left side bear
  • right side text

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated polar bear sitting on snow-covered ground. The bear has light gray and white fur, black eyes, and a black nose. Its body is positioned facing left with its head turned slightly toward the viewer. The background consists of light blue and white pixels representing snow. On the right side of the image, there is a solid pink rectangular area with the word 'winter' written in light blue pixelated text. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation throughout. The bear's expression appears neutral. The image is divided vertically with the bear on the left and the pink text area on the right.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a polar bear on a snowy background with pink text reading 'winter' on the right side.

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
  • 20081222160218949783740
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polar bear winter icon
  • pixelated winter text
  • pink background polar bear
  • snow bear text
  • winter polar bear icon
  • pixelated bear winter
  • winter text polar bear
  • low-resolution winter icon

Visible Text

  • winter

Wordwall

  • polar bear
  • snow background
  • pink rectangle
  • light blue text
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • left-facing bear
  • light gray fur
  • white fur
  • black eyes
  • black nose
  • light blue background pixels
  • solid pink area
  • 'winter' text
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital art
  • vertical division
  • snow-covered ground

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081222160218949783740
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 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 15:47 UTC
Archive ID
7d88f894c804b5f5
SHA-256
7d88f894c804b5f5a4951f7d5a7ed0cb2ccb0734a762cfa1ba3a8c90bd96168f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:16 UTC
Run
1081
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.113093

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a polar bear on a snowy background with pink text reading 'winter' on the right side.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,334 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 777

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • snow (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital art (style, 0.80)
  • polar bear (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • The image is static with no visible motion changes across observations.

Colors

  • pink
  • light blue
  • gray
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • vertical division
  • left side bear
  • right side text

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated polar bear sitting on snow-covered ground. The bear has light gray and white fur, black eyes, and a black nose. Its body is positioned facing left with its head turned slightly toward the viewer. The background consists of light blue and white pixels representing snow. On the right side of the image, there is a solid pink rectangular area with the word 'winter' written in light blue pixelated text. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation throughout. The bear's expression appears neutral. The image is divided vertically with the bear on the left and the pink text area on the right.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a polar bear on a snowy background with pink text reading 'winter' on the right side.

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
  • 20081222160218949783740
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • snow bear text
  • winter polar bear icon
  • pixelated bear winter
  • winter text polar bear
  • low-resolution winter icon

Objects

  • snow
  • text

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  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital art

Subjects

  • polar bear

Visible Text

  • winter

Wordwall

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  • snow background
  • pink rectangle
  • light blue text
  • pixelated
  • neutral expression
  • left-facing bear
  • light gray fur
  • white fur
  • black eyes
  • black nose
  • light blue background pixels
  • solid pink area
  • 'winter' text
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital art
  • vertical division
  • snow-covered ground
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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
20081222160218949783740
Archive entry
20081222160218949783740.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#20081222160218949783740.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081222160218949783740.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016