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A pixelated image of a person holding a camera, with text overlays on colored backgrounds.

A pixelated image of a person holding a camera, with text overlays on colored backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text overlays

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left: a pixelated person with light hair holding a small digital camera, wearing a light-colored top, against a dark background. Top-right: a light purple background with bold pink text "its katee." Bottom-left: a bright pink background with bold pink text "DUHH!" and a pink and black emoticon "=]". Bottom-right: a solid light gray background. All text uses a pixelated font with black outlines.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person holding a camera, with text overlays on colored 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding camera
  • its katee DUHH
  • pink text emoticon
  • four quadrant image

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Visible Text

  • its katee.
  • DUHH!
  • =]

Wordwall

  • pixelated person
  • light hair
  • digital camera
  • light-colored top
  • dark background
  • light purple background
  • pink text
  • its katee
  • bright pink background
  • DUHH!
  • =] emoticon
  • light gray background
  • pixelated font
  • black outlines

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807301838571279847749
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/41/410f55ff1f3061246f82ce1cb19ffbf2f715a036f8a999a18498354ff38988aa.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC
Archive ID
410f55ff1f306124
SHA-256
410f55ff1f3061246f82ce1cb19ffbf2f715a036f8a999a18498354ff38988aa
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 15:14 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.006383

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 18:30 UTC
Run
1210
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000918

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.000918falseself-harm0.000533falseviolence0.000531falseself-harm/intent0.000224falseviolence/graphic0.000009falseself-harm/instructions0.000003falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:51 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.585335

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated image of a person holding a camera, with text overlays on colored backgrounds.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 15:08 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,917 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 651

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • light purple (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • quadrant layout (style, 0.80)
  • text heavy (style, 0.80)
  • camera (subject, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • light purple
  • bright pink
  • light gray
  • pink
  • black
  • light-colored
  • dark

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text overlays

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left: a pixelated person with light hair holding a small digital camera, wearing a light-colored top, against a dark background. Top-right: a light purple background with bold pink text "its katee." Bottom-left: a bright pink background with bold pink text "DUHH!" and a pink and black emoticon "=]". Bottom-right: a solid light gray background. All text uses a pixelated font with black outlines.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person holding a camera, with text overlays on colored 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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • person holding camera
  • its katee DUHH
  • pink text emoticon
  • four quadrant image

Objects

  • camera

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-heavy
  • quadrant layout

Subjects

  • person
  • camera

Visible Text

  • its katee.
  • DUHH!
  • =]

Wordwall

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  • light hair
  • digital camera
  • light-colored top
  • dark background
  • light purple background
  • pink text
  • its katee
  • bright pink background
  • DUHH!
  • =] emoticon
  • light gray background
  • pixelated font
  • black outlines
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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
200807301838571279847749
Archive entry
200807301838571279847749.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 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#200807301838571279847749.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807301838571279847749.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016