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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan background and 'SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!' text.

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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan background and 'SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!' text.

Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan background and 'SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!' text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, L…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split vertical
  • bear left
  • text right

Dense Caption

Pixelated polar bear sits on snow-covered ground, facing left with black eyes and nose. The bear's fur is light gray and white. To the right, cyan background contains black pixelated text: 'SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!' with 'SAVE' having blue pixel artifacts. The image is split vertically with the bear on the left and text on the right. The bear's posture is seated with front paws visible. Snow background has light blue and white pixels. The text is in uppercase, blocky font. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan background and 'SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!' 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • polar bear save the polar bears cyan background
  • pixelated polar bear snow
  • save the polar bears text cyan
  • polar bear cyan background text
  • snow polar bear cyan
  • polar bear text cyan
  • save the polar bears pixelated
  • cyan background polar bear text

Visible Text

  • SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!

Wordwall

  • polar bear
  • snow
  • cyan background
  • SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!
  • pixelated
  • seated
  • black eyes
  • black nose
  • light gray fur
  • white fur
  • blue pixel artifacts
  • blocky text
  • uppercase text
  • split composition
  • low resolution
  • snow-covered ground
  • front paws visible
  • light blue pixels
  • white pixels
  • text on right

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090307134024941172971
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
ce3f5b9acb12634a
SHA-256
ce3f5b9acb12634a878a3f088254b79592e38ea9fe78215154c5ea8d99c10b8c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:44 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.129866

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Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan background and 'SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!' text.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 01:59 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,377 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 762

Review tags

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  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • blocky (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • light gray
  • white
  • light blue

Composition

  • split vertical
  • bear left
  • text right

Dense Caption

Pixelated polar bear sits on snow-covered ground, facing left with black eyes and nose. The bear's fur is light gray and white. To the right, cyan background contains black pixelated text: 'SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!' with 'SAVE' having blue pixel artifacts. The image is split vertically with the bear on the left and text on the right. The bear's posture is seated with front paws visible. Snow background has light blue and white pixels. The text is in uppercase, blocky font. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated polar bear sits on snow with cyan background and 'SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!' 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

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  • text

Style

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  • polar bear

Visible Text

  • SAVE THE POLAR BEARS!

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  • text on right
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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
20090307134024941172971
Archive entry
20090307134024941172971.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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

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