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A grayscale pixelated icon depicts a leaping feline figure with a long tail against a solid black background.

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A grayscale pixelated icon depicts a leaping feline figure with a long tail against a solid black background.

A grayscale pixelated icon depicts a leaping feline figure with a long tail against a solid black background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • diagonal orientation
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

The icon is a static, low-resolution grayscale image with a black background. It shows a stylized feline figure in mid-leap, oriented diagonally from top-left to bottom-right. The figure has a rounded head, visible ears, a body with a distinct spine, and a long, tapering tail. The image uses dithering and pixelation to create shading and form. No text or additional elements are present. The figure's pose suggests forward motion with limbs extended. The overall style is minimalist and abstract due to the low resolution.

Description

  • A grayscale pixelated icon depicts a leaping feline figure with a long tail against a solid black background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale feline leaping icon
  • pixelated black background animal
  • low resolution leaping cat
  • dithered grayscale animal figure
  • diagonal orientation feline icon
  • stretched limbs animal icon
  • minimalist pixelated cat
  • black background leaping feline

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution rendering
  • dithering applied to shading

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • feline figure
  • leaping pose
  • long tail
  • black background
  • dithering
  • low resolution
  • diagonal orientation
  • stretched limbs
  • rounded head
  • visible ears
  • tapering tail
  • minimalist style
  • abstract form

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070831221202407700790
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1016 bytes
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/42/42b81e9391e6b3d46b8fb97011b51b1aeecee5fb45a8b9a871eaa07ac963fee1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
42b81e9391e6b3d4
SHA-256
42b81e9391e6b3d46b8fb97011b51b1aeecee5fb45a8b9a871eaa07ac963fee1
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:53 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089342

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A grayscale pixelated icon depicts a leaping feline figure with a long tail against a solid black background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 08:44 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,944 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 771

Review tags

  • leaping (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • feline figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • leaping

Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • black
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • diagonal orientation
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

The icon is a static, low-resolution grayscale image with a black background. It shows a stylized feline figure in mid-leap, oriented diagonally from top-left to bottom-right. The figure has a rounded head, visible ears, a body with a distinct spine, and a long, tapering tail. The image uses dithering and pixelation to create shading and form. No text or additional elements are present. The figure's pose suggests forward motion with limbs extended. The overall style is minimalist and abstract due to the low resolution.

Description

  • A grayscale pixelated icon depicts a leaping feline figure with a long tail against a solid black background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale feline leaping icon
  • pixelated black background animal
  • low resolution leaping cat
  • dithered grayscale animal figure
  • diagonal orientation feline icon
  • stretched limbs animal icon
  • minimalist pixelated cat
  • black background leaping feline

Preprocessing Notes

  • low-resolution rendering
  • dithering applied to shading

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • feline figure

Wordwall

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  • feline figure
  • leaping pose
  • long tail
  • black background
  • dithering
  • low resolution
  • diagonal orientation
  • stretched limbs
  • rounded head
  • visible ears
  • tapering tail
  • minimalist style
  • abstract form
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:50 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20070831221202407700790
Archive entry
20070831221202407700790.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#20070831221202407700790.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070831221202407700790.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016