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A pixelated cat and duck on a blue background with yellow text repeating 'meow' and 'quack' in black letters.

A pixelated cat and duck on a blue background with yellow text repeating 'meow' and 'quack' in black letters. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Animation Summary

  • The image is static with no visible motion changes; all elements remain fixed in position and appearance across observations.

Composition

  • left: animal subjects on blue background; right: text on yellow background

Dense Caption

The image shows a brown tabby cat positioned behind a small yellow duckling, both facing left against a solid light blue background. The right side of the image features a bright yellow panel containing repeated black pixelated text: 'meow', 'quack', 'meow', 'quack', 'meow' in the top section; 'meow', 'quack', 'meow', 'quack', 'woof?' in the bottom right section; and 'quack', 'meow', 'quack', 'meow', 'quack' in the bottom left section. The cat has a relaxed expression with closed eyes, while the duckling appears to be standing still. All text is rendered in a blocky pixel font typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated cat and duck on a blue background with yellow text repeating 'meow' and 'quack' in black letters.

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
  • 20080715051119846109169

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cat duckling meow quack
  • meow quack text yellow blue
  • pixelated cat duckling 'woof?'

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: bright yellow panel
  • quarantined objects: text panel
  • quarantined composition: left: animal subjects on blue background; right: text panel on yellow background
  • quarantined retrieval: meow quack text panel yellow blue

Subjects

  • cat

Visible Text

  • meow
  • quack
  • woof?

Wordwall

  • brown tabby cat
  • small yellow duckling
  • light blue background
  • bright yellow
  • black pixelated text
  • 'meow' repeated 5 times
  • 'quack' repeated 6 times
  • 'woof?' at bottom right

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080715051119846109169
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/58/58f38578ec9d62d0a87e3111f422dfa5cabba36069ddfc94fbcba03a301e6361.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
58f38578ec9d62d0
SHA-256
58f38578ec9d62d0a87e3111f422dfa5cabba36069ddfc94fbcba03a301e6361
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:31 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089808

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.925895onnx/unsafe0.089808onnx/nsfw0.054610onnx/nsfl0.035198
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A pixelated cat and duck on a blue background with yellow text repeating 'meow' and 'quack' in black letters.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 12:25 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,368 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 716

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cat (subject, 0.80)
  • duckling (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • The image is static with no visible motion changes; all elements remain fixed in position and appearance across observations.

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • brown
  • black

Composition

  • left: animal subjects on blue background; right: text on yellow background

Dense Caption

The image shows a brown tabby cat positioned behind a small yellow duckling, both facing left against a solid light blue background. The right side of the image features a bright yellow panel containing repeated black pixelated text: 'meow', 'quack', 'meow', 'quack', 'meow' in the top section; 'meow', 'quack', 'meow', 'quack', 'woof?' in the bottom right section; and 'quack', 'meow', 'quack', 'meow', 'quack' in the bottom left section. The cat has a relaxed expression with closed eyes, while the duckling appears to be standing still. All text is rendered in a blocky pixel font typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated cat and duck on a blue background with yellow text repeating 'meow' and 'quack' in black letters.

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
  • 20080715051119846109169

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cat duckling meow quack
  • meow quack text yellow blue
  • pixelated cat duckling 'woof?'

Objects

  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: bright yellow panel
  • quarantined objects: text panel
  • quarantined composition: left: animal subjects on blue background; right: text panel on yellow background
  • quarantined retrieval: meow quack text panel yellow blue

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution graphics

Subjects

  • cat
  • duckling

Visible Text

  • meow
  • quack
  • woof?

Wordwall

  • brown tabby cat
  • small yellow duckling
  • light blue background
  • bright yellow
  • black pixelated text
  • 'meow' repeated 5 times
  • 'quack' repeated 6 times
  • 'woof?' at bottom right
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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
20080715051119846109169
Archive entry
20080715051119846109169.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#20080715051119846109169.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080715051119846109169.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016