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Pixelated penguin stands on light blue background with text 'save the penguins' in pixel font.

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Pixelated penguin stands on light blue background with text 'save the penguins' in pixel font.

Pixelated penguin stands on light blue background with text 'save the penguins' in pixel font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left: penguin standing upright
  • right: text block

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated king penguin standing upright, facing left. It has black head and back, white belly, yellow neck patch, orange beak tip, and black feet. Right side displays blue pixelated text on light blue background: 'save the penguins' with visible letter spacing and blocky font style.

Description

  • Pixelated penguin stands on light blue background with text 'save the penguins' in pixel font.

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

  • save the penguins pixel art
  • king penguin blue background
  • pixelated penguin text
  • penguin yellow neck patch

Visible Text

  • save the penguins

Visually Supported Entities

  • king penguin

Wordwall

  • king penguin
  • pixel art
  • light blue background
  • blue text
  • save the penguins
  • yellow neck patch
  • orange beak tip

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809221611451985840394
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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
icons/c6/c6bce7a5ba5b62ea9dcb1469c309f03c977ed0c45e0c56ee47d07071b6dd0786.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
c6bce7a5ba5b62ea
SHA-256
c6bce7a5ba5b62ea9dcb1469c309f03c977ed0c45e0c56ee47d07071b6dd0786
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Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 23:50 UTC
Run
15966
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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July 23, 2026 at 19:40 UTC
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Pixelated penguin stands on light blue background with text 'save the penguins' in pixel font.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 01:17 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,058 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 544

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • penguin (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • yellow
  • light blue
  • blue
  • orange

Composition

  • left: penguin standing upright
  • right: text block

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated king penguin standing upright, facing left. It has black head and back, white belly, yellow neck patch, orange beak tip, and black feet. Right side displays blue pixelated text on light blue background: 'save the penguins' with visible letter spacing and blocky font style.

Description

  • Pixelated penguin stands on light blue background with text 'save the penguins' in pixel font.

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

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • save the penguins pixel art
  • king penguin blue background
  • pixelated penguin text
  • penguin yellow neck patch

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • penguin

Visible Text

  • save the penguins

Visually Supported Entities

  • king penguin

Wordwall

  • king penguin
  • pixel art
  • light blue background
  • blue text
  • save the penguins
  • yellow neck patch
  • orange beak tip
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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
200809221611451985840394
Archive entry
200809221611451985840394.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#200809221611451985840394.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809221611451985840394.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016