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Two pixelated hippopotamus images side-by-side, one plain and one with overlaid text.

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Two pixelated hippopotamus images side-by-side, one plain and one with overlaid text.

Two pixelated hippopotamus images side-by-side, one plain and one with overlaid text. 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

  • two side-by-side images
  • central subject placement
  • text overlay on right image

Dense Caption

Left image shows a dark gray pixelated hippopotamus facing left on white background. Right image identical but with yellow blocky text "BIG PURPLE HIPPO!!" over body and small smiley face ")" below. Both images have soft shadows beneath the animals, rendered in low-resolution 8-bit style.

Description

  • Two pixelated hippopotamus images side-by-side, one plain and one with overlaid text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • big purple hippo
  • pixelated hippo text
  • yellow blocky text hippo
  • smiley face hippo

Preprocessing Notes

untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by pixels; source hints indicate 2007-2016 collection but pixel evidence shows no era-specific details beyond style

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Visible Text

  • BIG PURPLE HIPPO!!
  • )

Visually Supported Entities

  • hippopotamus

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • hippopotamus
  • dark gray
  • white background
  • yellow blocky text
  • "BIG PURPLE HIPPO!!"
  • smiley face )
  • soft shadow

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071019184038120662048
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b8/b83b302f74fc0778b739cb932884c4a41ad061161da83341a441be16787126a1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC
Archive ID
b83b302f74fc0778
SHA-256
b83b302f74fc0778b739cb932884c4a41ad061161da83341a441be16787126a1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:32 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.109820

OpenAI category scores

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Two pixelated hippopotamus images side-by-side, one plain and one with overlaid text.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 11:18 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,957 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 588

Review tags

  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hippopotamus (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark gray
  • white
  • yellow

Composition

  • two side-by-side images
  • central subject placement
  • text overlay on right image

Dense Caption

Left image shows a dark gray pixelated hippopotamus facing left on white background. Right image identical but with yellow blocky text "BIG PURPLE HIPPO!!" over body and small smiley face ")" below. Both images have soft shadows beneath the animals, rendered in low-resolution 8-bit style.

Description

  • Two pixelated hippopotamus images side-by-side, one plain and one with overlaid text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • big purple hippo
  • pixelated hippo text
  • yellow blocky text hippo
  • smiley face hippo

Preprocessing Notes

untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata not confirmed by pixels; source hints indicate 2007-2016 collection but pixel evidence shows no era-specific details beyond style

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • hippopotamus

Visible Text

  • BIG PURPLE HIPPO!!
  • )

Visually Supported Entities

  • hippopotamus

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • hippopotamus
  • dark gray
  • white background
  • yellow blocky text
  • "BIG PURPLE HIPPO!!"
  • smiley face )
  • soft shadow
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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
20071019184038120662048
Archive entry
20071019184038120662048.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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#20071019184038120662048.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071019184038120662048.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016