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Pixelated pink background with repeated 'kate' text and white wave-like borders, featuring a gray rectangular overlay on the right side.

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Pixelated pink background with repeated 'kate' text and white wave-like borders, featuring a gray rectangular overlay on the right side.

Pixelated pink background with repeated 'kate' text and white wave-like borders, featuring a gray rectangular overlay on the right side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Int…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal top text
  • wave borders
  • gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated composition with a bright pink background. Five instances of the text 'kate' appear in black pixelated font: three horizontally aligned at the top, and two at the bottom left. White wave-like borders with pink accents separate sections of the image. A solid gray rectangle occupies the right side of the lower section. The overall style is retro digital with distinct pixelation and limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated pink background with repeated 'kate' text and white wave-like borders, featuring a gray rectangular overlay on the right side.

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

  • pink kate text wave borders
  • gray rectangle kate pixelated
  • five kate instances wave borders
  • kate text pink background gray rectangle

Visible Text

  • kate

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • black 'kate' text
  • white wave borders
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated style
  • five 'kate' instances
  • retro digital
  • limited color palette

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070830163146889978378
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
560 bytes
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6e/6e620a802800d48951f2bef5c0834596a46349e9701a0007f1799c67094eff47.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
6e620a802800d489
SHA-256
6e620a802800d48951f2bef5c0834596a46349e9701a0007f1799c67094eff47
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
0.078816

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated pink background with repeated 'kate' text and white wave-like borders, featuring a gray rectangular overlay on the right side.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 08:13 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,314 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,169, response 655

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • horizontal top text
  • wave borders
  • gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated composition with a bright pink background. Five instances of the text 'kate' appear in black pixelated font: three horizontally aligned at the top, and two at the bottom left. White wave-like borders with pink accents separate sections of the image. A solid gray rectangle occupies the right side of the lower section. The overall style is retro digital with distinct pixelation and limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated pink background with repeated 'kate' text and white wave-like borders, featuring a gray rectangular overlay on the right side.

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

  • pink kate text wave borders
  • gray rectangle kate pixelated
  • five kate instances wave borders
  • kate text pink background gray rectangle

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • kate

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • black 'kate' text
  • white wave borders
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated style
  • five 'kate' instances
  • retro digital
  • limited color palette
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:42 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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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070830163146889978378
Archive entry
20070830163146889978378.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#20070830163146889978378.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070830163146889978378.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016