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Pixelated image of colorful gummy bears with pink text reading 'gummy bears <3' on the right side.

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Pixelated image of colorful gummy bears with pink text reading 'gummy bears <3' on the right side.

Pixelated image of colorful gummy bears with pink text reading 'gummy bears <3' on the right side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • dense cluster of gummy bears on left
  • text on right side

Dense Caption

The icon features a dense cluster of pixelated gummy bear shapes in red, green, yellow, and brown tones. On the right side, there is pink pixelated text that reads 'gummy bears' followed by '<3'. The background appears to be white. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated image of colorful gummy bears with pink text reading 'gummy bears <3' on the right side.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gummy bears pink text
  • pixelated gummy bears <3
  • red green yellow brown gummy bears
  • white background pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection identity and era but is not authoritative; pixels are the only source for description

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Visible Text

  • gummy bears
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • gummy bears

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • gummy bears
  • red
  • green
  • yellow
  • brown
  • pink text
  • <3 symbol
  • white background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071228183748345413462
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
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b4/b4f9c3af4fa42715f14b64b46f58e710ca94aba6a48529eb6fe97e7956dd517f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC
Archive ID
b4f9c3af4fa42715
SHA-256
b4f9c3af4fa42715f14b64b46f58e710ca94aba6a48529eb6fe97e7956dd517f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:29 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.107900

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.897575onnx/unsafe0.107900onnx/nsfw0.069501onnx/nsfl0.038399
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated image of colorful gummy bears with pink text reading 'gummy bears <3' on the right side.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 05:33 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,493 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 581

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • gummy bears (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • green
  • yellow
  • brown
  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • dense cluster of gummy bears on left
  • text on right side

Dense Caption

The icon features a dense cluster of pixelated gummy bear shapes in red, green, yellow, and brown tones. On the right side, there is pink pixelated text that reads 'gummy bears' followed by '<3'. The background appears to be white. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated image of colorful gummy bears with pink text reading 'gummy bears <3' on the right side.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • gummy bears pink text
  • pixelated gummy bears <3
  • red green yellow brown gummy bears
  • white background pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection identity and era but is not authoritative; pixels are the only source for description

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • gummy bears

Visible Text

  • gummy bears
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • gummy bears

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • gummy bears
  • red
  • green
  • yellow
  • brown
  • pink text
  • <3 symbol
  • white background
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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
20071228183748345413462
Archive entry
20071228183748345413462.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#20071228183748345413462.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071228183748345413462.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016