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Pixelated hippopotamus head on left, light blue background with green text reading "I love Hippos =] =]" on right.

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Pixelated hippopotamus head on left, light blue background with green text reading "I love Hippos =] =]" on right.

Pixelated hippopotamus head on left, light blue background with green text reading "I love Hippos =] =]" on right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Mood

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Source terms

Composition

  • left: hippo head
  • right: text on solid background

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated hippopotamus head facing slightly right with visible eyes and nostrils; skin is grayish-brown. Right side has solid light blue background with bright green pixelated text: first line "I love", second line "Hippos", third line two smiley face emoticons "=] =]". Text uses blocky, retro digital font style. Hippo image appears static without visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated hippopotamus head on left, light blue background with green text reading "I love Hippos =] =]" on 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hippo pixel art
  • I love Hippos text
  • =] =] smiley
  • green retro font hippo

Visible Text

  • I love
  • Hippos
  • =] =]

Visually Supported Entities

  • hippopotamus

Wordwall

  • hippopotamus
  • pixelated
  • grayish-brown skin
  • light blue background
  • green text
  • I love Hippos
  • =] =]
  • retro digital font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804250558101923925099
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 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 15:24 UTC
Archive ID
c05c8fde4347f042
SHA-256
c05c8fde4347f042bc4c141ecf75162d023a9088e279ff3decb53b20a25131d9
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:36 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.133772

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated hippopotamus head on left, light blue background with green text reading "I love Hippos =] =]" on right.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 08:24 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,532 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 591

Review tags

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  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • grayish-brown
  • light blue
  • bright green

Composition

  • left: hippo head
  • right: text on solid background

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated hippopotamus head facing slightly right with visible eyes and nostrils; skin is grayish-brown. Right side has solid light blue background with bright green pixelated text: first line "I love", second line "Hippos", third line two smiley face emoticons "=] =]". Text uses blocky, retro digital font style. Hippo image appears static without visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated hippopotamus head on left, light blue background with green text reading "I love Hippos =] =]" on 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

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hippo pixel art
  • I love Hippos text
  • =] =] smiley
  • green retro font hippo

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • hippopotamus head

Visible Text

  • I love
  • Hippos
  • =] =]

Visually Supported Entities

  • hippopotamus

Wordwall

  • hippopotamus
  • pixelated
  • grayish-brown skin
  • light blue background
  • green text
  • I love Hippos
  • =] =]
  • retro digital font
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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
200804250558101923925099
Archive entry
200804250558101923925099.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:24 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#200804250558101923925099.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804250558101923925099.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016