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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with orange background and partial text fragments.

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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with orange background and partial text fragments.

Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with orange background and partial text fragments. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • bear on left
  • text top-right and bottom-left
  • solid color background

Dense Caption

A pixelated image shows a light gray polar bear sitting on white snow. The bear has black eyes, nose, and mouth. To the right of the bear is a solid bright red background. Partial black text appears: 'to bad' at top-right; 'he doesn't have hi core!' at bottom-left. Text fragments are rendered in blocky pixel font with visible anti-aliasing. The image has low resolution typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with orange background and partial text fragments.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071215140708283043325

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polar bear pixel art red background
  • to bad he doesn't have hi core
  • blocky text polar bear image
  • humorous pixelated animal text

Visible Text

  • to bad
  • he doesn't have hi core!

Wordwall

  • polar bear
  • snow background
  • red background
  • pixelated
  • blocky text
  • black eyes
  • black nose
  • text fragments

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071215140708283043325
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ae/ae2fdcbbcfd9b3b37059b35b97c1a66684c694bfc7ab1d8c25c63f89423be50a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 UTC
Archive ID
ae2fdcbbcfd9b3b3
SHA-256
ae2fdcbbcfd9b3b37059b35b97c1a66684c694bfc7ab1d8c25c63f89423be50a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:26 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089517

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with orange background and partial text fragments.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 02:12 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,608 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 636

Review tags

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  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
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  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • light gray
  • white
  • bright red
  • black

Composition

  • bear on left
  • text top-right and bottom-left
  • solid color background

Dense Caption

A pixelated image shows a light gray polar bear sitting on white snow. The bear has black eyes, nose, and mouth. To the right of the bear is a solid bright red background. Partial black text appears: 'to bad' at top-right; 'he doesn't have hi core!' at bottom-left. Text fragments are rendered in blocky pixel font with visible anti-aliasing. The image has low resolution typical of early 2000s digital art.

Description

  • Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with orange background and partial text fragments.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071215140708283043325

Mood

  • humorous
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polar bear pixel art red background
  • to bad he doesn't have hi core
  • blocky text polar bear image
  • humorous pixelated animal text

Style

  • pixel art
  • low resolution
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • polar bear

Visible Text

  • to bad
  • he doesn't have hi core!

Wordwall

  • polar bear
  • snow background
  • red background
  • pixelated
  • blocky text
  • black eyes
  • black nose
  • text fragments
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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
20071215140708283043325
Archive entry
20071215140708283043325.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 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#20071215140708283043325.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071215140708283043325.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016