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Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with a bright green background and black text reading 'polar bear' on the right.

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Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with a bright green background and black text reading 'polar bear' on the right.

Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with a bright green background and black text reading 'polar bear' on the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • bear on left
  • text on right
  • solid green background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with a bright green background and black text reading 'polar bear' on the right. The bear has light gray and white fur, black eyes, and a black nose. The background is a light blue and white pixelated pattern resembling snow. The text 'polar bear' is in a pixelated font on a solid green background. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with a bright green background and black text reading 'polar bear' on the right.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polar bear sitting snow
  • green background polar bear
  • pixelated polar bear text
  • sitting polar bear green background
  • polar bear black text
  • snow polar bear green background
  • pixelated bear green background
  • polar bear light gray fur

Visible Text

  • polar bear

Wordwall

  • polar bear
  • sitting
  • snow
  • green background
  • pixelated
  • black text
  • light gray fur
  • black eyes
  • black nose
  • light blue background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20110913163447436136344
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC
Archive ID
bee01dfb75f14bdc
SHA-256
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August 31, 2026 at 23:25 UTC
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Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with a bright green background and black text reading 'polar bear' on the right.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 00:45 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,123 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 680

Review tags

  • sitting (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • snow (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital art (style, 0.80)
  • polar bear (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • sitting

Colors

  • green
  • black
  • light gray
  • white
  • light blue

Composition

  • bear on left
  • text on right
  • solid green background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with a bright green background and black text reading 'polar bear' on the right. The bear has light gray and white fur, black eyes, and a black nose. The background is a light blue and white pixelated pattern resembling snow. The text 'polar bear' is in a pixelated font on a solid green background. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a polar bear sitting on snow with a bright green background and black text reading 'polar bear' on the right.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • polar bear black text
  • snow polar bear green background
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Objects

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Style

  • pixelated
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Subjects

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Visible Text

  • polar bear

Wordwall

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  • snow
  • green background
  • pixelated
  • black text
  • light gray fur
  • black eyes
  • black nose
  • light blue 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
20110913163447436136344
Archive entry
20110913163447436136344.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 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#20110913163447436136344.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20110913163447436136344.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016