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Pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on blue background with pink text reading 'we are best buddies 4 life' on right side.

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Pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on blue background with pink text reading 'we are best buddies 4 life' on right side.

Pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on blue background with pink text reading 'we are best buddies 4 life' on right side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Int…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split vertical composition
  • left subject, right text
  • vertical text alignment

Dense Caption

Left half shows pixelated brown tabby cat standing upright, facing left, with black eyes and nose. Cat's front paws hold small yellow duckling with orange beak and feet; duckling faces forward. Right half has solid blue background with pink pixelated text: 'we' (top), 'are', 'best', 'buddies', '4 life' (bottom). Text is vertically centered, each word on separate line. Image uses low-resolution 8-bit style rendering.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on blue background with pink text reading 'we are best buddies 4 life' on right side.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080218135426624094049

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown cat yellow duckling blue background
  • pixelated text we are best buddies 4 life
  • low-resolution 8-bit cat holding duckling
  • split vertical composition pink text

Visible Text

  • we
  • are
  • best
  • buddies
  • 4
  • life

Wordwall

  • brown tabby cat
  • yellow duckling
  • blue background
  • pink pixelated text
  • low-resolution 8-bit
  • cat holds duckling
  • text reads 'we are best buddies 4 life'
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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080218135426624094049
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 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 15:15 UTC
Archive ID
2e3c68a4df58f65f
SHA-256
2e3c68a4df58f65f4eb2a58946da2270fd06e048fb41b55ddece87528344b286
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:32 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077577

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Pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on blue background with pink text reading 'we are best buddies 4 life' on right side.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 23:50 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,417 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 707

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • orange beak (object, 0.80)
  • orange feet (object, 0.80)
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  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • brown tabby cat (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow duckling (subject, 0.80)

Actions

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  • blue
  • brown
  • yellow
  • pink
  • black
  • orange

Composition

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  • left subject, right text
  • vertical text alignment

Dense Caption

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Description

  • Pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on blue background with pink text reading 'we are best buddies 4 life' on right side.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080218135426624094049

Mood

  • friendly
  • playful

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  • pixelated
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  • yellow duckling

Visible Text

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  • best
  • buddies
  • 4
  • life

Wordwall

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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
20080218135426624094049
Archive entry
20080218135426624094049.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 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#20080218135426624094049.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080218135426624094049.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016