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Two side-by-side pixelated cat images with text labels; left shows orange tabby cats on green background, right shows gray kitten and person on brown background.

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Two side-by-side pixelated cat images with text labels; left shows orange tabby cats on green background, right shows gray kitten and person on brown background.

Two side-by-side pixelated cat images with text labels; left shows orange tabby cats on green background, right shows gray kitten and person on brown background. Animated 50×50 GI…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • close-up shots

Dense Caption

Left image: two orange tabby cats in close-up pose, facing slightly left, against blurred green background. Right image: single gray kitten resting on a person's head, person has light skin and dark hair visible; background includes brown tones. Both images have pixelated rendering with low resolution. Left text label is blue rectangle containing black lowercase 'cute'. Right text label is purple rectangle containing black lowercase 'cat'.

Description

Two side-by-side pixelated cat images with text labels; left shows orange tabby cats on green background, right shows gray kitten and person on brown 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
  • 200911181404021358964900

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cute cat icon
  • orange tabby kitten image
  • pixelated animal text labels
  • blue purple cute cat

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: side-by-side panels

Visible Text

  • cute
  • cat

Wordwall

  • orange tabby cats
  • green background
  • blue 'cute' label
  • gray kitten
  • person's head
  • brown background
  • purple 'cat' label
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200911181404021358964900
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.8 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
70563c09a9728f67
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:54 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.100508

OpenAI category scores

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Two side-by-side pixelated cat images with text labels; left shows orange tabby cats on green background, right shows gray kitten and person on brown background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 20:23 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,762 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 629

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • cute (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cats (subject, 0.80)
  • kitten (subject, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • orange
  • blue
  • gray
  • brown
  • purple

Composition

  • side-by-side
  • close-up shots

Dense Caption

Left image: two orange tabby cats in close-up pose, facing slightly left, against blurred green background. Right image: single gray kitten resting on a person's head, person has light skin and dark hair visible; background includes brown tones. Both images have pixelated rendering with low resolution. Left text label is blue rectangle containing black lowercase 'cute'. Right text label is purple rectangle containing black lowercase 'cat'.

Description

Two side-by-side pixelated cat images with text labels; left shows orange tabby cats on green background, right shows gray kitten and person on brown 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
  • 200911181404021358964900

Mood

  • cute
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cute cat icon
  • orange tabby kitten image
  • pixelated animal text labels
  • blue purple cute cat

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: side-by-side panels

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • cats
  • kitten
  • person

Visible Text

  • cute
  • cat

Wordwall

  • orange tabby cats
  • green background
  • blue 'cute' label
  • gray kitten
  • person's head
  • brown background
  • purple 'cat' label
  • pixelated rendering
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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
200911181404021358964900
Archive entry
200911181404021358964900.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#200911181404021358964900.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200911181404021358964900.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016