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Pixelated gray cat head with blue banner displaying 'ryan<3' text, set against dark background.

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Pixelated gray cat head with blue banner displaying 'ryan<3' text, set against dark background.

Pixelated gray cat head with blue banner displaying 'ryan<3' text, set against dark background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Lat…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal banner above subject
  • centered composition
  • minimalist design

Dense Caption

Gray pixelated cat head occupies lower portion of frame; blue rectangular banner spans top edge containing white pixelated text 'ryan<3'; '<3' symbol is heart shape formed by less-than and greater-than characters; gray cat has visible ear on left side; background consists of dark pixels surrounding the cat and banner; image exhibits low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated gray cat head with blue banner displaying 'ryan<3' text, set against dark background.

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
  • 20080201131546359558256

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ryan<3 cat icon
  • pixelated gray cat buddy icon
  • blue banner ryan heart symbol
  • <3 text pixel art cat

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

Visible Text

  • ryan<3

Wordwall

  • gray cat head
  • blue banner
  • ryan<3 text
  • <3 heart symbol
  • pixelated graphics
  • dark background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080201131546359558256
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6f/6f933c5f92cdea4325745193d1225a48114a5e41c9ef241aeed50a02a125a986.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC
Archive ID
6f933c5f92cdea43
SHA-256
6f933c5f92cdea4325745193d1225a48114a5e41c9ef241aeed50a02a125a986
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:54 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.255839

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated gray cat head with blue banner displaying 'ryan<3' text, set against dark background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 14:11 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,009 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 619

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • banner (object, 0.80)
  • buddy icon style (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • cat head (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • gray
  • blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • horizontal banner above subject
  • centered composition
  • minimalist design

Dense Caption

Gray pixelated cat head occupies lower portion of frame; blue rectangular banner spans top edge containing white pixelated text 'ryan<3'; '<3' symbol is heart shape formed by less-than and greater-than characters; gray cat has visible ear on left side; background consists of dark pixels surrounding the cat and banner; image exhibits low-resolution pixelation typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated gray cat head with blue banner displaying 'ryan<3' text, set against dark background.

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
  • 20080201131546359558256

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ryan<3 cat icon
  • pixelated gray cat buddy icon
  • blue banner ryan heart symbol
  • <3 text pixel art cat

Objects

  • banner

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • buddy icon style

Subjects

  • cat head

Visible Text

  • ryan<3

Wordwall

  • gray cat head
  • blue banner
  • ryan<3 text
  • <3 heart symbol
  • pixelated graphics
  • dark background
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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
20080201131546359558256
Archive entry
20080201131546359558256.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 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#20080201131546359558256.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080201131546359558256.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016