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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background, text 'love' and 'polar bears' below.

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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background, text 'love' and 'polar bears' below.

Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background, text 'love' and 'polar bears' below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left-right split
  • text below

Dense Caption

Left panel shows pixelated polar bear sitting on snow; bear has light gray fur, black nose, dark eyes. Right panel is solid bright cyan background with single lowercase 'i' centered vertically. Below both panels, left side displays 'love' in blocky blue text, right side displays 'polar bears' in same style. Text appears to be part of a static image composition.

Description

  • Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background, text 'love' and 'polar bears' below.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polar bear pixel art
  • love polar bears text
  • cyan background i
  • blocky blue font

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate animation but pixels show static image; no motion observed in provided frames.
  • quarantined composition: text below panels
  • quarantined composition: left-right split panel

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata claims about era, collection, and topic that are not confirmed by visible pixels.

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • polar bears

Visually Supported Entities

  • polar bear

Wordwall

  • pixelated polar bear
  • sitting on snow
  • light gray fur
  • black nose
  • dark eyes
  • bright cyan background
  • lowercase i
  • love text
  • polar bears text
  • blocky blue font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808070431261535392299
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/81/818ac250f6a9ac276778485bf0dab6b0e55616ccff0edcac07b002076b3c4bc5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC
Archive ID
818ac250f6a9ac27
SHA-256
818ac250f6a9ac276778485bf0dab6b0e55616ccff0edcac07b002076b3c4bc5
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:25 UTC
Run
1101
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.107242

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.925894onnx/unsafe0.107242onnx/nsfw0.065661onnx/nsfl0.041581
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background, text 'love' and 'polar bears' below.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 16:49 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,082 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 609

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • bright cyan (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • polar bear (subject, 0.80)

Colors

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

Composition

  • left-right split
  • text below

Dense Caption

Left panel shows pixelated polar bear sitting on snow; bear has light gray fur, black nose, dark eyes. Right panel is solid bright cyan background with single lowercase 'i' centered vertically. Below both panels, left side displays 'love' in blocky blue text, right side displays 'polar bears' in same style. Text appears to be part of a static image composition.

Description

  • Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background, text 'love' and 'polar bears' below.

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polar bear pixel art
  • love polar bears text
  • cyan background i
  • blocky blue font

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate animation but pixels show static image; no motion observed in provided frames.
  • quarantined composition: text below panels
  • quarantined composition: left-right split panel

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata claims about era, collection, and topic that are not confirmed by visible pixels.

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • polar bear

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • polar bears

Visually Supported Entities

  • polar bear

Wordwall

  • pixelated polar bear
  • sitting on snow
  • light gray fur
  • black nose
  • dark eyes
  • bright cyan background
  • lowercase i
  • love text
  • polar bears text
  • blocky blue 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
200808070431261535392299
Archive entry
200808070431261535392299.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 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#200808070431261535392299.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808070431261535392299.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016