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Pixelated image of a hippopotamus on the left side with a blue background on the right displaying yellow text.

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Pixelated image of a hippopotamus on the left side with a blue background on the right displaying yellow text.

Pixelated image of a hippopotamus on the left side with a blue background on the right displaying yellow text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Composition

  • split composition
  • left: hippopotamus
  • right: text on solid background

Dense Caption

The image is split into two distinct sections. On the left, a pixelated hippopotamus is visible, showing a light brown and gray color scheme with a slightly open mouth. The background behind the hippo is a light blue sky and a brownish ground. On the right side, a solid blue background contains yellow pixelated text that reads 'bigger than ever'. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a hippopotamus on the left side with a blue background on the right displaying yellow text.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hippopotamus text bigger than ever
  • pixelated hippo blue background yellow text
  • bigger than ever hippo
  • retro digital art hippo text

Visible Text

  • bigger than ever

Wordwall

  • hippopotamus
  • pixelated
  • light brown
  • gray
  • open mouth
  • light blue sky
  • brown ground
  • solid blue background
  • yellow text
  • bigger than ever
  • retro digital art
  • split composition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200905021435371339406371
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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/cc/cc584fa6d4f3e85c85eb10c1e9d4e2d941f675066e887157a56e976862224a94.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
cc584fa6d4f3e85c
SHA-256
cc584fa6d4f3e85c85eb10c1e9d4e2d941f675066e887157a56e976862224a94
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
0.134044

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a hippopotamus on the left side with a blue background on the right displaying yellow text.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 08:34 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,140 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,149, response 683

Review tags

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  • hippopotamus (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light brown
  • gray
  • light blue
  • brown
  • solid blue
  • yellow

Composition

  • split composition
  • left: hippopotamus
  • right: text on solid background

Dense Caption

The image is split into two distinct sections. On the left, a pixelated hippopotamus is visible, showing a light brown and gray color scheme with a slightly open mouth. The background behind the hippo is a light blue sky and a brownish ground. On the right side, a solid blue background contains yellow pixelated text that reads 'bigger than ever'. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a hippopotamus on the left side with a blue background on the right displaying yellow text.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hippopotamus text bigger than ever
  • pixelated hippo blue background yellow text
  • bigger than ever hippo
  • retro digital art hippo text

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital art

Subjects

  • hippopotamus

Visible Text

  • bigger than ever

Wordwall

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  • light brown
  • gray
  • open mouth
  • light blue sky
  • brown ground
  • solid blue background
  • yellow text
  • bigger than ever
  • retro digital art
  • split composition
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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
200905021435371339406371
Archive entry
200905021435371339406371.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#200905021435371339406371.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200905021435371339406371.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016