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Pixelated hippo head on left, bright pink background with green text 'hippos', 'kool', and 'awesome'

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Pixelated hippo head on left, bright pink background with green text 'hippos', 'kool', and 'awesome'

Pixelated hippo head on left, bright pink background with green text 'hippos', 'kool', and 'awesome'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Mood

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Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes observed across provided frames

Composition

  • left : hippo head on sky/ground
  • right : three vertical of text

Dense Caption

Left panel shows a pixelated hippopotamus head facing right against light blue sky and brown ground. Right panel has solid bright pink background with green blocky text: top column reads 'hippos', 'hippos', 'kool', 'hippos', 'hippos'; middle column reads 'are', 'are', 'kool', 'are', 'are'; bottom column reads 'awesome', 'awesome', 'kool', 'awesome', 'awesome'. All text uses identical green pixelated font. No visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Pixelated hippo head on left, bright pink background with green text 'hippos', 'kool', and 'awesome'

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806150952411086954484
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hippo head bright pink green text
  • pixelated hippo text 'kool' 'awesome'
  • bright pink background green blocky text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed in provided frames
  • quarantined description: Pixelated hippo head on left, bright pink background with green text 'hippos', 'kool', and 'awesome' arranged in columns.
  • quarantined composition: right panel: three vertical columns of text
  • quarantined composition: left panel: hippo head on sky/ground
  • quarantined retrieval: bright pink background green blocky text columns

Visible Text

  • hippos
  • kool
  • are
  • awesome

Wordwall

  • hippo head
  • pixelated image
  • bright pink background
  • green blocky text
  • 'hippos' repeated
  • 'kool' repeated
  • 'awesome' repeated
  • 'are' repeated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806150952411086954484
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/97/97cfa448d63092a11bbc22e2ac8c066486ea5fc7238d261932195e1d39f7a65b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC
Archive ID
97cfa448d63092a1
SHA-256
97cfa448d63092a11bbc22e2ac8c066486ea5fc7238d261932195e1d39f7a65b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:12 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.134044

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated hippo head on left, bright pink background with green text 'hippos', 'kool', and 'awesome'

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 06:04 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,026 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 631

Review tags

  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hippopotamus head (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes observed across provided frames

Colors

  • bright pink
  • green
  • light blue
  • brown

Composition

  • left : hippo head on sky/ground
  • right : three vertical of text

Dense Caption

Left panel shows a pixelated hippopotamus head facing right against light blue sky and brown ground. Right panel has solid bright pink background with green blocky text: top column reads 'hippos', 'hippos', 'kool', 'hippos', 'hippos'; middle column reads 'are', 'are', 'kool', 'are', 'are'; bottom column reads 'awesome', 'awesome', 'kool', 'awesome', 'awesome'. All text uses identical green pixelated font. No visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Pixelated hippo head on left, bright pink background with green text 'hippos', 'kool', and 'awesome'

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200806150952411086954484
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hippo head bright pink green text
  • pixelated hippo text 'kool' 'awesome'
  • bright pink background green blocky text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed in provided frames
  • quarantined description: Pixelated hippo head on left, bright pink background with green text 'hippos', 'kool', and 'awesome' arranged in columns.
  • quarantined composition: right panel: three vertical columns of text
  • quarantined composition: left panel: hippo head on sky/ground
  • quarantined retrieval: bright pink background green blocky text columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • hippopotamus head

Visible Text

  • hippos
  • kool
  • are
  • awesome

Wordwall

  • hippo head
  • pixelated image
  • bright pink background
  • green blocky text
  • 'hippos' repeated
  • 'kool' repeated
  • 'awesome' repeated
  • 'are' repeated
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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
200806150952411086954484
Archive entry
200806150952411086954484.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 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#200806150952411086954484.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806150952411086954484.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016