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Pixelated black cat face with green eyes on left, blue background with light blue pixel text 'cats are cool' on right.

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Pixelated black cat face with green eyes on left, blue background with light blue pixel text 'cats are cool' on right.

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split composition
  • left: cat face
  • right: text on solid background

Dense Caption

Left side shows a close-up of a black cat's face with visible fur texture and one green eye; the right side features solid blue background. Light blue pixelated text reads "cats" above "are" above "cool", each word centered vertically. Text has dark blue outline, all letters are lowercase except for 'c' in 'cats'.

Description

  • Pixelated black cat face with green eyes on left, blue background with light blue pixel text 'cats are cool' on right.

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

  • black cat pixel art
  • cats are cool text
  • blue background pixel text
  • green eye cat

Subjects

  • cat

Visible Text

  • cats
  • are
  • cool

Visually Supported Entities

  • cat

Wordwall

  • black cat face
  • green eyes
  • pixelated fur
  • blue background
  • light blue text
  • text: cats are cool
  • lowercase letters
  • dark blue outline

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080101170135835354785
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6d/6dab02ab5ec35d43f2b113aa4e9c852939d9b335b402d76d61e0dc79c224f637.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC
Archive ID
6dab02ab5ec35d43
SHA-256
6dab02ab5ec35d43f2b113aa4e9c852939d9b335b402d76d61e0dc79c224f637
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:52 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089190

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated black cat face with green eyes on left, blue background with light blue pixel text 'cats are cool' on right.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 06:50 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,435 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 562

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • cat (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • green
  • blue
  • light blue
  • dark blue

Composition

  • split composition
  • left: cat face
  • right: text on solid background

Dense Caption

Left side shows a close-up of a black cat's face with visible fur texture and one green eye; the right side features solid blue background. Light blue pixelated text reads "cats" above "are" above "cool", each word centered vertically. Text has dark blue outline, all letters are lowercase except for 'c' in 'cats'.

Description

  • Pixelated black cat face with green eyes on left, blue background with light blue pixel text 'cats are cool' on right.

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

  • playful
  • casual

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • black cat pixel art
  • cats are cool text
  • blue background pixel text
  • green eye cat

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • cat

Visible Text

  • cats
  • are
  • cool

Visually Supported Entities

  • cat

Wordwall

  • black cat face
  • green eyes
  • pixelated fur
  • blue background
  • light blue text
  • text: cats are cool
  • lowercase letters
  • dark blue outline
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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
20080101170135835354785
Archive entry
20080101170135835354785.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 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#20080101170135835354785.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080101170135835354785.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016