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Pixelated orange and white cat face on left, red background with black text 'cats our why i live' on right.

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Pixelated orange and white cat face on left, red background with black text 'cats our why i live' on right.

Pixelated orange and white cat face on left, red background with black text 'cats our why i live' on right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split vertical composition
  • left: cat face close-up
  • right: solid background with text

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated close-up of an orange and white cat's face with large black eyes, pink nose, and visible ear details. Right side features solid bright red background with vertically stacked black pixelated text reading 'cats', 'our', 'why', 'i', 'live'. The image has low-resolution digital rendering typical of early 2000s web graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated orange and white cat face on left, red background with black text 'cats our why i live' on right.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071104175027936018705

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cat face pixelated red background text
  • orange white cat black eyes pink nose
  • cats our why i live text
  • pixel art cat humor

Subjects

  • cat

Visible Text

  • cats
  • our
  • why
  • i
  • live

Wordwall

  • orange and white cat
  • pixelated face
  • red background
  • black text
  • vertical text layout
  • low resolution
  • large black eyes
  • pink nose

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071104175027936018705
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 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
icons/28/28bcf43228e8a29570fc554740fc49342939400025683e4dc8e0225bf3b308d7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC
Archive ID
28bcf43228e8a295
SHA-256
28bcf43228e8a29570fc554740fc49342939400025683e4dc8e0225bf3b308d7
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:26 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094550

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated orange and white cat face on left, red background with black text 'cats our why i live' on right.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,960 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 653

Review tags

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  • pink (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • orange
  • white
  • red
  • black
  • pink

Composition

  • split vertical composition
  • left: cat face close-up
  • right: solid background with text

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated close-up of an orange and white cat's face with large black eyes, pink nose, and visible ear details. Right side features solid bright red background with vertically stacked black pixelated text reading 'cats', 'our', 'why', 'i', 'live'. The image has low-resolution digital rendering typical of early 2000s web graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated orange and white cat face on left, red background with black text 'cats our why i live' on right.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071104175027936018705

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cat face pixelated red background text
  • orange white cat black eyes pink nose
  • cats our why i live text
  • pixel art cat humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution digital art

Subjects

  • cat

Visible Text

  • cats
  • our
  • why
  • i
  • live

Wordwall

  • orange and white cat
  • pixelated face
  • red background
  • black text
  • vertical text layout
  • low resolution
  • large black eyes
  • pink nose
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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
20071104175027936018705
Archive entry
20071104175027936018705.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 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

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071104175027936018705.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071104175027936018705.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016