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Pixelated hippo head on left, blue background with pink text on right, gray section below, partial text at bottom.

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Pixelated hippo head on left, blue background with pink text on right, gray section below, partial text at bottom.

Pixelated hippo head on left, blue background with pink text on right, gray section below, partial text at bottom. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left : hippo head
  • top-right : text
  • bottom-left : text
  • bottom-right : solid gray

Dense Caption

Pixelated hippo head facing right with visible eyes and mouth, brownish-gray skin, light blue sky background. Right panel: solid blue background with pink pixelated text 'im hippo im cute'. Bottom panel: solid blue background with pink pixelated text 'atch me dar' (partially visible). Bottom-right panel: solid gray background. All panels form a 2x2 grid layout. Pixelation suggests low-resolution digital rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated hippo head on left, blue background with pink text on right, gray section below, partial text at bottom.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200811021327471193816886

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hippo pixelated text cute
  • blue pink gray
  • im hippo im cute
  • atch me dar
  • hippo
  • cute hippo text
  • pixelated hippo blue
  • gray text

Preprocessing Notes

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains non-authoritative metadata; pixels are authoritative
  • quarantined wordwall: solid blue panel
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined wordwall: gray panel
  • quarantined composition: bottom-right panel: solid gray
  • quarantined composition: bottom-left panel: text
  • quarantined composition: top-right panel: text
  • quarantined composition: left panel: hippo head
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: gray panel text
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid hippo
  • quarantined retrieval: blue pink gray grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • im hippo im cute
  • atch me dar

Wordwall

  • hippo head
  • pixelated
  • blue background
  • pink text
  • gray
  • light blue sky
  • brownish-gray skin
  • partially visible text
  • solid blue

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811021327471193816886
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/80/8040f4c9e8b94773deaaef0bfa3fae2f25a4bd7340ba0f26c0b9f497a860f7fa.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
8040f4c9e8b94773
SHA-256
8040f4c9e8b94773deaaef0bfa3fae2f25a4bd7340ba0f26c0b9f497a860f7fa
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrowprovider flagged
Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 10:32 UTC
Run
1281
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
violence
Overall score
0.201381

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 09:03 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.176422

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated hippo head on left, blue background with pink text on right, gray section below, partial text at bottom.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 06:40 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,914 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 740

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brownish gray (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • cute (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hippo (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • pink
  • gray
  • brownish-gray
  • light blue

Composition

  • left : hippo head
  • top-right : text
  • bottom-left : text
  • bottom-right : solid gray

Dense Caption

Pixelated hippo head facing right with visible eyes and mouth, brownish-gray skin, light blue sky background. Right panel: solid blue background with pink pixelated text 'im hippo im cute'. Bottom panel: solid blue background with pink pixelated text 'atch me dar' (partially visible). Bottom-right panel: solid gray background. All panels form a 2x2 grid layout. Pixelation suggests low-resolution digital rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated hippo head on left, blue background with pink text on right, gray section below, partial text at bottom.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200811021327471193816886

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • cute

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hippo pixelated text cute
  • blue pink gray
  • im hippo im cute
  • atch me dar
  • hippo
  • cute hippo text
  • pixelated hippo blue
  • gray text

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: solid blue panel
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined wordwall: gray panel
  • quarantined composition: bottom-right panel: solid gray
  • quarantined composition: bottom-left panel: text
  • quarantined composition: top-right panel: text
  • quarantined composition: left panel: hippo head
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: gray panel text
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid hippo
  • quarantined retrieval: blue pink gray grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital

Subjects

  • hippo

Visible Text

  • im hippo im cute
  • atch me dar

Wordwall

  • hippo head
  • pixelated
  • blue background
  • pink text
  • gray
  • light blue sky
  • brownish-gray skin
  • partially visible text
  • solid blue
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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
200811021327471193816886
Archive entry
200811021327471193816886.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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#200811021327471193816886.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811021327471193816886.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016