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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background displaying 'Save The Bears!' text.

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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background displaying 'Save The Bears!' text.

Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background displaying 'Save The Bears!' text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Animation Summary

  • no animation observed; static image with split composition of animal and text

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left: animal, right: text

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated polar bear sitting on snowy ground, facing left. Bear has light gray fur with darker patches and black nose. Right side features solid bright cyan background with three lines of blue pixelated text: 'Save', 'The', 'Bears!'. Text is centered vertically. Image uses low-resolution 8-bit style rendering with visible dithering on the bear's fur and snow.

Description

  • Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background displaying 'Save The Bears!' text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080519180207158783509
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polar bear save the bears cyan background pixel art
  • save the bears polar bear blue text cyan
  • pixelated polar bear snow cyan background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion observed in static image

Visible Text

  • Save
  • The
  • Bears!

Wordwall

  • polar bear
  • snowy ground
  • cyan background
  • blue text
  • pixelated
  • 'Save The Bears!'
  • light gray fur
  • black nose
  • dithered texture

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080519180207158783509
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/89/89f1db7021e386b3d26c1a3641ef942cc7b17756eca394d0994c001b40d894a3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC
Archive ID
89f1db7021e386b3
SHA-256
89f1db7021e386b3d26c1a3641ef942cc7b17756eca394d0994c001b40d894a3
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:39 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.123000

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.925894onnx/unsafe0.123000onnx/nsfw0.083648onnx/nsfl0.039352
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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background displaying 'Save The Bears!' text.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 17:04 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,074 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 562

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • conservation (mood, 0.80)
  • earnest (mood, 0.80)
  • snow (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • polar bear (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no animation observed; static image with split composition of animal and text

Colors

  • cyan
  • blue
  • gray
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left: animal, right: text

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated polar bear sitting on snowy ground, facing left. Bear has light gray fur with darker patches and black nose. Right side features solid bright cyan background with three lines of blue pixelated text: 'Save', 'The', 'Bears!'. Text is centered vertically. Image uses low-resolution 8-bit style rendering with visible dithering on the bear's fur and snow.

Description

  • Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background displaying 'Save The Bears!' text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080519180207158783509
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • earnest
  • conservation

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polar bear save the bears cyan background pixel art
  • save the bears polar bear blue text cyan
  • pixelated polar bear snow cyan background

Objects

  • snow
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion observed in static image

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • polar bear

Visible Text

  • Save
  • The
  • Bears!

Wordwall

  • polar bear
  • snowy ground
  • cyan background
  • blue text
  • pixelated
  • 'Save The Bears!'
  • light gray fur
  • black nose
  • dithered texture
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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
20080519180207158783509
Archive entry
20080519180207158783509.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 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

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