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A pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on a blue background with green text on a pink background.

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A pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on a blue background with green text on a pink background.

A pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on a blue background with green text on a pink background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; the image appears static with no frame transitions.

Composition

  • two animals on left
  • text on right
  • solid backgrounds

Dense Caption

The image shows a brown cat and yellow duckling positioned closely together on a solid blue background. The cat is slightly behind and to the right of the duckling, with its head turned toward the duckling. The duckling faces left. Both animals are rendered in low-resolution pixel art. To the right of the animals, on a solid bright pink background, there is green pixelated text: "I 6:#9329;" at the top and "MY BEST FRIEND;" at the bottom. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The image has a distinct 1990s/early 2000s digital aesthetic with limited color palette and pixelation.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on a blue background with green text on a pink background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 20070807164017320369101

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown cat yellow duckling blue background
  • green pixelated text pink background
  • I 6:#9329; MY BEST FRIEND; pixel art
  • retro digital animal companions

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static image with no visible animation frames

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Subjects

  • cat

Visible Text

  • I 6:#9329;
  • MY BEST FRIEND;

Wordwall

  • brown cat
  • yellow duckling
  • blue background
  • pink background
  • green pixelated text
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • retro digital font
  • blocky text
  • animal companions
  • text "I 6:#9329;"
  • text "MY BEST FRIEND;"

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070807164017320369101
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6f/6f3b11325432f6cfdbfc6fac177e291512958eb4c9314877049dc6eda4040b50.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
6f3b11325432f6cf
SHA-256
6f3b11325432f6cfdbfc6fac177e291512958eb4c9314877049dc6eda4040b50
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 20:22 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010283

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:53 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.213434

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
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A pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on a blue background with green text on a pink background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 20:20 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,001 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 862

Review tags

  • facing left (action, 0.80)
  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • cat (subject, 0.80)
  • duckling (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • standing
  • facing left

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; the image appears static with no frame transitions.

Colors

  • blue
  • pink
  • green
  • brown
  • yellow

Composition

  • two animals on left
  • text on right
  • solid backgrounds

Dense Caption

The image shows a brown cat and yellow duckling positioned closely together on a solid blue background. The cat is slightly behind and to the right of the duckling, with its head turned toward the duckling. The duckling faces left. Both animals are rendered in low-resolution pixel art. To the right of the animals, on a solid bright pink background, there is green pixelated text: "I 6:#9329;" at the top and "MY BEST FRIEND;" at the bottom. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The image has a distinct 1990s/early 2000s digital aesthetic with limited color palette and pixelation.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on a blue background with green text on a pink background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 20070807164017320369101

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • friendly
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown cat yellow duckling blue background
  • green pixelated text pink background
  • I 6:#9329; MY BEST FRIEND; pixel art
  • retro digital animal companions

Objects

  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static image with no visible animation frames

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • cat
  • duckling

Visible Text

  • I 6:#9329;
  • MY BEST FRIEND;

Wordwall

  • brown cat
  • yellow duckling
  • blue background
  • pink background
  • green pixelated text
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • retro digital font
  • blocky text
  • animal companions
  • text "I 6:#9329;"
  • text "MY BEST FRIEND;"
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:45 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)
Raw JSON
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
20070807164017320369101
Archive entry
20070807164017320369101.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#20070807164017320369101.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070807164017320369101.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016