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A polar bear with red text overlays in four showing sequential changes

A polar bear with red text overlays in four showing sequential changes. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to Mid-…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes : 'save me' → 'prom' → 'global warming'

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change sequentially across four from 'save me' to 'prom' to 'global warming', with the polar bear remaining static

Composition

  • four
  • bear centered in each

Dense Caption

Four-panel grid shows a white polar bear against green grass background. Top-left panel has red text 'save me' over the bear's head; top-right panel replaces this with 'prom'; bottom-left panel displays 'global warming'. The bear remains static throughout, facing forward with black eyes and nose. Text is bold, pixelated, and positioned above the bear's head in each visible frame.

Description

  • A polar bear with red text overlays in four showing sequential changes

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polar bear global warming
  • save me prom global warming
  • text overlay polar bear
  • four text change

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A polar bear with red text overlays in four panels showing sequential changes.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Text overlays change sequentially across four panels from 'save me' to 'prom' to 'global warming', with the polar bear remaining static.
  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined composition: bear centered in each panel
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined animation: text changes across panels: 'save me' → 'prom' → 'global warming'
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel text change

Visible Text

  • save me
  • prom
  • global warming

Visually Supported Entities

  • polar bear

Wordwall

  • polar bear
  • green grass background
  • red text overlays
  • save me
  • prom
  • global warming
  • four
  • static bear
  • pixelated text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071230080810216303561
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.9 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/93/93617e8399826fb1631514a3fbd0193d3b6d2dce87996cc65d516cfe9f6031de.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC
Archive ID
93617e8399826fb1
SHA-256
93617e8399826fb1631514a3fbd0193d3b6d2dce87996cc65d516cfe9f6031de
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.101604

OpenAI category scores

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A polar bear with red text overlays in four showing sequential changes

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 05:54 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,959 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 544

Review tags

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  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
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  • text changes save me prom global warming (other, 0.80)
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Animation

  • text changes : 'save me' → 'prom' → 'global warming'

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change sequentially across four from 'save me' to 'prom' to 'global warming', with the polar bear remaining static

Colors

  • white
  • green
  • red
  • black

Composition

  • four
  • bear centered in each

Dense Caption

Four-panel grid shows a white polar bear against green grass background. Top-left panel has red text 'save me' over the bear's head; top-right panel replaces this with 'prom'; bottom-left panel displays 'global warming'. The bear remains static throughout, facing forward with black eyes and nose. Text is bold, pixelated, and positioned above the bear's head in each visible frame.

Description

  • A polar bear with red text overlays in four showing sequential changes

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Mood

  • urgent
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polar bear global warming
  • save me prom global warming
  • text overlay polar bear
  • four text change

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A polar bear with red text overlays in four panels showing sequential changes.
  • quarantined animationSummary: Text overlays change sequentially across four panels from 'save me' to 'prom' to 'global warming', with the polar bear remaining static.
  • quarantined wordwall: four-panel grid
  • quarantined composition: bear centered in each panel
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid
  • quarantined animation: text changes across panels: 'save me' → 'prom' → 'global warming'
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel text change

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-overlaid

Subjects

  • polar bear

Visible Text

  • save me
  • prom
  • global warming

Visually Supported Entities

  • polar bear

Wordwall

  • polar bear
  • green grass background
  • red text overlays
  • save me
  • prom
  • global warming
  • four
  • static bear
  • pixelated text
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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
20071230080810216303561
Archive entry
20071230080810216303561.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 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#20071230080810216303561.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071230080810216303561.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016