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A split-screen image with a blue wave on the left and red background on the right displaying 'KATE!' in black pixelated text.

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A split-screen image with a blue wave on the left and red background on the right displaying 'KATE!' in black pixelated text.

A split-screen image with a blue wave on the left and red background on the right displaying 'KATE!' in black pixelated text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left wave section
  • right text section

Dense Caption

The image is horizontally split into two distinct sections. The left section features a pixelated blue wave with white foam, set against a light blue sky with faint white clouds. The right section is a solid red background with the text 'KATE!' rendered in black, blocky, pixelated letters. The wave section shows a dynamic curling motion with varying shades of blue and white. The text section has no additional visual elements beyond the red background and the text. The overall resolution is low, with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • A split-screen image with a blue wave on the left and red background on the right displaying 'KATE!' in black pixelated text.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue wave red background KATE!
  • split-screen wave text
  • pixelated KATE! blue wave
  • red background blue wave

Visible Text

  • KATE!

Wordwall

  • split-screen
  • blue wave
  • white foam
  • light blue sky
  • red background
  • KATE!
  • pixelated text
  • dynamic curling motion
  • low resolution
  • blocky letters

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20111105191236253446685
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/31/31ddc156292459532099bc037715f5da0c9d23a0bab707443d0551e83b238204.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC
Archive ID
31ddc15629245953
SHA-256
31ddc156292459532099bc037715f5da0c9d23a0bab707443d0551e83b238204
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:35 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091156

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.922526onnx/unsafe0.091156onnx/nsfw0.046768onnx/nsfl0.044388
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A split-screen image with a blue wave on the left and red background on the right displaying 'KATE!' in black pixelated text.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 01:11 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,117 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 604

Review tags

  • curling (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • bold (mood, 0.80)
  • dynamic (mood, 0.80)
  • foam (object, 0.80)
  • sky (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)
  • wave (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • curling

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • red
  • light blue

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left wave section
  • right text section

Dense Caption

The image is horizontally split into two distinct sections. The left section features a pixelated blue wave with white foam, set against a light blue sky with faint white clouds. The right section is a solid red background with the text 'KATE!' rendered in black, blocky, pixelated letters. The wave section shows a dynamic curling motion with varying shades of blue and white. The text section has no additional visual elements beyond the red background and the text. The overall resolution is low, with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • A split-screen image with a blue wave on the left and red background on the right displaying 'KATE!' in black pixelated text.

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

Mood

  • dynamic
  • bold

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue wave red background KATE!
  • split-screen wave text
  • pixelated KATE! blue wave
  • red background blue wave

Objects

  • sky
  • foam

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • wave
  • text

Visible Text

  • KATE!

Wordwall

  • split-screen
  • blue wave
  • white foam
  • light blue sky
  • red background
  • KATE!
  • pixelated text
  • dynamic curling motion
  • low resolution
  • blocky letters
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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
20111105191236253446685
Archive entry
20111105191236253446685.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 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#20111105191236253446685.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20111105191236253446685.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016