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Blue background with repeated 'katie' text in black pixelated font, some highlighted in cyan

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Blue background with repeated 'katie' text in black pixelated font, some highlighted in cyan

Blue background with repeated 'katie' text in black pixelated font, some highlighted in cyan. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Composition

  • centered text in each

Dense Caption

The image displays a grid of 9 cells on a solid blue background. Each cell contains the word 'katie' written three times vertically in a black, blocky, pixelated font. The top-left cell is light cyan; the middle-middle cell is light cyan; and the bottom-right cell is light cyan. All other cells are solid blue. The text 'katie' appears identical across all visible instances.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated 'katie' text in black pixelated font, some highlighted in cyan

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 cyan katie text
  • pixelated katie
  • cyan highlighted katie
  • repeated katie pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with repeated 'katie' text in black pixelated font, some cells highlighted in cyan.
  • quarantined wordwall: 9-cell grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: cyan highlighted cells
  • quarantined composition: centered text in each cell
  • quarantined composition: 9-cell grid
  • quarantined retrieval: cyan highlighted cells katie
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated katie grid

Visible Text

  • katie

Visually Supported Entities

  • katie

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • cyan highlighted
  • 'katie' text repeated
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805120735551474880198
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
633 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/55/55cb4a76c69f847fbbca466c6560ea7207df6bfcdb8dec7cc58748b168ca6eaa.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC
Archive ID
55cb4a76c69f847f
SHA-256
55cb4a76c69f847fbbca466c6560ea7207df6bfcdb8dec7cc58748b168ca6eaa
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:28 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.098774

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.916576onnx/unsafe0.098774onnx/nsfw0.056366onnx/nsfl0.042408
Enrichment records (1)
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Blue background with repeated 'katie' text in black pixelated font, some highlighted in cyan

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 14:24 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,439 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,163, response 549

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Colors

  • blue
  • cyan
  • black

Composition

  • centered text in each

Dense Caption

The image displays a grid of 9 cells on a solid blue background. Each cell contains the word 'katie' written three times vertically in a black, blocky, pixelated font. The top-left cell is light cyan; the middle-middle cell is light cyan; and the bottom-right cell is light cyan. All other cells are solid blue. The text 'katie' appears identical across all visible instances.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated 'katie' text in black pixelated font, some highlighted in cyan

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

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue cyan katie text
  • pixelated katie
  • cyan highlighted katie
  • repeated katie pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with repeated 'katie' text in black pixelated font, some cells highlighted in cyan.
  • quarantined wordwall: 9-cell grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: cyan highlighted cells
  • quarantined composition: centered text in each cell
  • quarantined composition: 9-cell grid
  • quarantined retrieval: cyan highlighted cells katie
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated katie grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky
  • repetitive

Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • katie

Visually Supported Entities

  • katie

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • cyan highlighted
  • 'katie' text repeated
  • pixelated font
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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
200805120735551474880198
Archive entry
200805120735551474880198.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 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#200805120735551474880198.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805120735551474880198.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016