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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background displaying text about responsibility for polar bears.

Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background displaying text about responsibility for polar bears. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left: polar bear on snow
  • right: solid blue background with text

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated polar bear sitting on snow, facing left with black nose and eyes. Right side has solid bright blue background with white pixelated text: 'If he dies' top-right, 'DON'T DRIVE KEEP THE POLAR BEARS ALIVE' middle-right, 'It's your fault' bottom-left. Text uses blocky 8-bit font style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background displaying text about responsibility for polar bears.

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

  • polar bear pixel art
  • blue background text
  • don't drive keep the polar bears alive
  • it's your fault

Style

  • 8-bit graphics

Visible Text

  • If he dies DON'T DRIVE KEEP THE POLAR BEARS ALIVE It's your fault

Visually Supported Entities

  • polar bear

Wordwall

  • pixelated polar bear
  • snow background
  • bright blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • blocky 8-bit font
  • black nose and eyes
  • sitting pose
  • facing left
  • text: 'If he dies'
  • text: 'DON'T DRIVE KEEP THE POLAR BEARS ALIVE'
  • text: 'It's your fault'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803171724291240249827
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/cc/cc2cd71b434bc398f2c42ccbbf05a840d993974b4aa89271c6d027da8328b160.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 UTC
Archive ID
cc2cd71b434bc398
SHA-256
cc2cd71b434bc398f2c42ccbbf05a840d993974b4aa89271c6d027da8328b160
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:43 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.119036

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background displaying text about responsibility for polar bears.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 07:51 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,803 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 633

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • white
  • gray
  • blue
  • black

Composition

  • left: polar bear on snow
  • right: solid blue background with text

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated polar bear sitting on snow, facing left with black nose and eyes. Right side has solid bright blue background with white pixelated text: 'If he dies' top-right, 'DON'T DRIVE KEEP THE POLAR BEARS ALIVE' middle-right, 'It's your fault' bottom-left. Text uses blocky 8-bit font style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with blue background displaying text about responsibility for polar bears.

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

  • urgent
  • humorous
  • environmental message

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polar bear pixel art
  • blue background text
  • don't drive keep the polar bears alive
  • it's your fault

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit graphics
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • polar bear

Visible Text

  • If he dies DON'T DRIVE KEEP THE POLAR BEARS ALIVE It's your fault

Visually Supported Entities

  • polar bear

Wordwall

  • pixelated polar bear
  • snow background
  • bright blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • blocky 8-bit font
  • black nose and eyes
  • sitting pose
  • facing left
  • text: 'If he dies'
  • text: 'DON'T DRIVE KEEP THE POLAR BEARS ALIVE'
  • text: 'It's your fault'
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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
200803171724291240249827
Archive entry
200803171724291240249827.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 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#200803171724291240249827.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803171724291240249827.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016