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Four pixelated depictions of Bowser from Super Mario games, each with 'Bowser' text in different colors and backgrounds.

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Four pixelated depictions of Bowser from Super Mario games, each with 'Bowser' text in different colors and backgrounds.

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Action

Style

Mood

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Source terms

Composition

  • four
  • text overlays

Dense Caption

Four pixel-art images of Bowser from Super Mario games arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left: Bowser in brown armor with red helmet, green shell, and spiked collar, standing on a brown platform. Top-right: Bowser in orange body with green shell, white underbelly, and spiked collar, arms crossed. Bottom-left: Bowser in orange body with green shell, yellow spikes, and red mouth, standing on white background. Bottom-right: Bowser in orange body with green shell, red helmet, and spiked collar, standing on white background. Each image has 'Bowser' text in different colors: top-left orange, top-right red, bottom-left green, bottom-right black. All images are pixelated with limited color palettes.

Description

  • Four pixelated depictions of Bowser from Super Mario games, each with 'Bowser' text in different colors and backgrounds.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Bowser pixel art
  • Super Mario Bowser
  • four Bowser images
  • Bowser text overlays
  • green shell Bowser
  • spiked collar Bowser
  • orange body Bowser
  • red helmet Bowser

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • Bowser

Visually Supported Entities

  • Bowser

Wordwall

  • Bowser
  • Super Mario
  • pixel art
  • four depictions
  • text overlays
  • green shell
  • spiked collar
  • orange body
  • red helmet
  • yellow spikes
  • white background
  • brown platform
  • crossed arms
  • red text
  • green text
  • black text
  • orange text
  • brown armor

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100801105941583110320
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100801105943610611436
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 16:07 UTC
Archive ID
ee30562893f7ab11
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 20:35 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.016216

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:01 UTC
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Four pixelated depictions of Bowser from Super Mario games, each with 'Bowser' text in different colors and backgrounds.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 20:13 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,575 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,152, response 770

Review tags

  • crossed arms (action, 0.80)
  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • brown platform (object, 0.80)
  • green shell (object, 0.80)
  • red helmet (object, 0.80)
  • spiked collar (object, 0.80)
  • white background (object, 0.80)
  • yellow spikes (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • video game (style, 0.80)
  • bowser (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • standing
  • crossed arms

Colors

  • green
  • orange
  • red
  • yellow
  • brown
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • four
  • text overlays

Dense Caption

Four pixel-art images of Bowser from Super Mario games arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left: Bowser in brown armor with red helmet, green shell, and spiked collar, standing on a brown platform. Top-right: Bowser in orange body with green shell, white underbelly, and spiked collar, arms crossed. Bottom-left: Bowser in orange body with green shell, yellow spikes, and red mouth, standing on white background. Bottom-right: Bowser in orange body with green shell, red helmet, and spiked collar, standing on white background. Each image has 'Bowser' text in different colors: top-left orange, top-right red, bottom-left green, bottom-right black. All images are pixelated with limited color palettes.

Description

  • Four pixelated depictions of Bowser from Super Mario games, each with 'Bowser' text in different colors and backgrounds.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • menacing
  • confident

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • Super Mario Bowser
  • four Bowser images
  • Bowser text overlays
  • green shell Bowser
  • spiked collar Bowser
  • orange body Bowser
  • red helmet Bowser

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  • brown platform
  • white background

Preprocessing Notes

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  • video game

Subjects

  • Bowser

Visible Text

  • Bowser

Visually Supported Entities

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Wordwall

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  • four depictions
  • text overlays
  • green shell
  • spiked collar
  • orange body
  • red helmet
  • yellow spikes
  • white background
  • brown platform
  • crossed arms
  • red text
  • green text
  • black text
  • orange text
  • brown armor
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Run
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Full source records (2)
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
20100801105941583110320
Archive entry
20100801105941583110320.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 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#20100801105941583110320.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100801105941583110320.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016 
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
20100801105943610611436
Archive entry
20100801105943610611436.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 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#20100801105943610611436.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100801105943610611436.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016