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Pixelated image of a polar bear on left, blue background with text on right.

Pixelated image of a polar bear on left, blue background with text on right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; image is static.

Composition

  • left-right split
  • polar bear on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated polar bear with light gray and white fur, black nose, and dark eyes, sitting on a light blue and white background. Right side has solid bright blue background with three lines of blue pixelated text: 'Timber', 'Stone', 'Wolves'. The image is static with no visible animation changes. Text is in a blocky, pixelated font. The polar bear's expression is neutral. The background on the left is light blue and white, suggesting snow or ice. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a polar bear on left, blue background with text 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070805085534122395483
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polar bear blue text Timber Stone Wolves
  • pixelated polar bear blue background Timber Stone Wolves
  • Timber Stone Wolves polar bear pixelated
  • blue text Timber Stone Wolves polar bear
  • polar bear blue background text Timber Stone Wolves

Visible Text

  • Timber
  • Stone
  • Wolves

Wordwall

  • polar bear
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  • white fur
  • black nose
  • dark eyes
  • neutral expression
  • light blue background
  • white background
  • solid bright blue background
  • blue text
  • 'Timber' text
  • 'Stone' text
  • 'Wolves' text
  • blocky font
  • low resolution
  • pixelation
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070805085534122395483
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7f/7f4d88095f9d04c2bdd987b54ac8fa94705d464a5aac1ca8e312713886f1e42a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
7f4d88095f9d04c2
SHA-256
7f4d88095f9d04c2bdd987b54ac8fa94705d464a5aac1ca8e312713886f1e42a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:20 UTC
Run
1091
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.111599

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a polar bear on left, blue background with text on right.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:13 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,041 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 761

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • bright blue (color, 0.80)
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  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
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  • polar bear (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; image is static.

Colors

  • light gray
  • white
  • black
  • light blue
  • bright blue
  • blue

Composition

  • left-right split
  • polar bear on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated polar bear with light gray and white fur, black nose, and dark eyes, sitting on a light blue and white background. Right side has solid bright blue background with three lines of blue pixelated text: 'Timber', 'Stone', 'Wolves'. The image is static with no visible animation changes. Text is in a blocky, pixelated font. The polar bear's expression is neutral. The background on the left is light blue and white, suggesting snow or ice. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a polar bear on left, blue background with text 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070805085534122395483
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

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Visible Text

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  • Wolves

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  • blue text
  • 'Timber' text
  • 'Stone' text
  • 'Wolves' text
  • blocky font
  • low resolution
  • pixelation
  • static image
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:27 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
20070805085534122395483
Archive entry
20070805085534122395483.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#20070805085534122395483.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070805085534122395483.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016