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Light blue background with white geometric patterns and four instances of 'Kate<3' text in dark blue pixelated font.

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Light blue background with white geometric patterns and four instances of 'Kate<3' text in dark blue pixelated font.

Light blue background with white geometric patterns and four instances of 'Kate<3' text in dark blue pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four text instances distributed across background
  • symmetrical arrangement of patterns

Dense Caption

The image displays a light blue background overlaid with repeating white geometric patterns composed of intersecting lines forming diamond shapes. Four identical instances of the text 'Kate<3' appear in dark blue, using a pixelated font style typical of early digital graphics. Each instance is positioned within separate sections of the patterned background. The overall composition shows no visible motion or animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Light blue background with white geometric patterns and four instances of 'Kate<3' text in dark blue pixelated font.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Kate

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

Named Entities

  • Kate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light blue geometric patterns
  • four Kate<3 text instances
  • dark blue pixelated font
  • repeating diamond shapes

Visible Text

  • Kate<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Kate

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • white geometric patterns
  • diamond shapes
  • four 'Kate<3' text instances
  • dark blue pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709151708311912006406
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/18/189936a480d5b9261aeb704cacf413f3bb8949982dab2a15a557be5001febd22.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC
Archive ID
189936a480d5b926
SHA-256
189936a480d5b9261aeb704cacf413f3bb8949982dab2a15a557be5001febd22
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:09 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.289804

OpenAI category scores

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Light blue background with white geometric patterns and four instances of 'Kate<3' text in dark blue pixelated font.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 02:26 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,486 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 567

Review tags

  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • geometric patterned (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repeating design (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • white
  • dark blue

Composition

  • four text instances distributed across background
  • symmetrical arrangement of patterns

Dense Caption

The image displays a light blue background overlaid with repeating white geometric patterns composed of intersecting lines forming diamond shapes. Four identical instances of the text 'Kate<3' appear in dark blue, using a pixelated font style typical of early digital graphics. Each instance is positioned within separate sections of the patterned background. The overall composition shows no visible motion or animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Light blue background with white geometric patterns and four instances of 'Kate<3' text in dark blue pixelated font.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Kate

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

Named Entities

  • Kate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light blue geometric patterns
  • four Kate<3 text instances
  • dark blue pixelated font
  • repeating diamond shapes

Style

  • pixelated
  • geometric patterned
  • repeating design

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • Kate<3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Kate

Wordwall

  • light blue background
  • white geometric patterns
  • diamond shapes
  • four 'Kate<3' text instances
  • dark blue pixelated font
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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
200709151708311912006406
Archive entry
200709151708311912006406.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 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#200709151708311912006406.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709151708311912006406.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016