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Pixelated cartoon bear in blue shirt holding a basketball, with 'BEARS' text below on dark background.

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Pixelated cartoon bear in blue shirt holding a basketball, with 'BEARS' text below on dark background.

Pixelated cartoon bear in blue shirt holding a basketball, with 'BEARS' text below on dark background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central bear figure
  • text below character
  • dark background contrast

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated cartoon bear character wearing a blue short-sleeve shirt and white undershirt. The bear has light brown fur, large round eyes, and is holding an orange basketball with visible seams in its right paw. Below the bear, there are five distinct orange rectangular blocks containing stylized text: 'B', 'E', 'A', 'R', 'S'. The background consists of dark blue and black pixelated areas suggesting a night or indoor setting. The image has low resolution typical of early 2000s digital graphics with visible dithering patterns.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon bear in blue shirt holding a basketball, with 'BEARS' text below on dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710071923561991844534

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Named Entities

  • BEARS

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon bear basketball orange text
  • pixelated blue shirt BEARS icon
  • low resolution cartoon character basketball
  • orange text block BEARS pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • cartoon

Visible Text

  • BEARS

Visually Supported Entities

  • bear character

Wordwall

  • cartoon bear
  • blue shirt
  • white undershirt
  • orange basketball
  • orange text blocks
  • dark background
  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • stylized 'BEARS' text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710071923561991844534
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d2/d2bda75cce9f2be53165e63927b8010f153aa2f0335b8225a396d3807ca94a32.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Archive ID
d2bda75cce9f2be5
SHA-256
d2bda75cce9f2be53165e63927b8010f153aa2f0335b8225a396d3807ca94a32
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:46 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087787

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cartoon bear in blue shirt holding a basketball, with 'BEARS' text below on dark background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 08:16 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,152 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 781

Review tags

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  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • basketball (object, 0.80)
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  • low resolution digital art (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • bear (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • light brown
  • blue
  • white
  • orange
  • dark blue
  • black

Composition

  • central bear figure
  • text below character
  • dark background contrast

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated cartoon bear character wearing a blue short-sleeve shirt and white undershirt. The bear has light brown fur, large round eyes, and is holding an orange basketball with visible seams in its right paw. Below the bear, there are five distinct orange rectangular blocks containing stylized text: 'B', 'E', 'A', 'R', 'S'. The background consists of dark blue and black pixelated areas suggesting a night or indoor setting. The image has low resolution typical of early 2000s digital graphics with visible dithering patterns.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon bear in blue shirt holding a basketball, with 'BEARS' text below on dark background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710071923561991844534

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • friendly

Named Entities

  • BEARS

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon bear basketball orange text
  • pixelated blue shirt BEARS icon
  • low resolution cartoon character basketball
  • orange text block BEARS pixel art

Objects

  • basketball

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • cartoon
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution digital art

Subjects

  • bear

Visible Text

  • BEARS

Visually Supported Entities

  • bear character

Wordwall

  • cartoon bear
  • blue shirt
  • white undershirt
  • orange basketball
  • orange text blocks
  • dark background
  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • stylized 'BEARS' text
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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
200710071923561991844534
Archive entry
200710071923561991844534.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 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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