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Green text *KATE* with asterisks on blue gradient background, four identical frames in

Green text *KATE* with asterisks on blue gradient background, four identical frames in. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, La…

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Animation Summary

  • No animation detected - all identical with no visible content changes between observations

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Four identical square panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel contains green pixelated text reading "*KATE*" centered horizontally and vertically against a light-to-dark blue radial gradient background. The text is flanked by small green asterisks on both sides of the word KATE. All four panels display identical visual content with no discernible differences between them. The image has low-resolution pixelation consistent with early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Green text *KATE* with asterisks on blue gradient background, four identical frames in

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
  • 20090817181738556366470

Named Entities

  • KATE

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • kate buddy icon
  • green kate text
  • blue gradient kate icon
  • asterisk kate icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected - all frames identical
  • quarantined description: Green text *KATE* with asterisks on blue gradient background, four identical frames in grid layout.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No animation detected - all four frames identical with no visible content changes between observations.
  • quarantined wordwall: identical panels
  • quarantined wordwall: 4x4 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • text-based icon

Visible Text

  • *KATE*

Wordwall

  • green text
  • *KATE*
  • asterisks
  • blue gradient background
  • radial gradient
  • pixelated font
  • identical

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090817181738556366470
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/72/72e137fdc7afc430b58745ee3c7e9e76a6ce20b2f8ff4790d0ddecc274a00ca8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC
Archive ID
72e137fdc7afc430
SHA-256
72e137fdc7afc430b58745ee3c7e9e76a6ce20b2f8ff4790d0ddecc274a00ca8
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:57 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076621

OpenAI category scores

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Green text *KATE* with asterisks on blue gradient background, four identical frames in

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 16:36 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,134 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 583

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • text based icon (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation detected - all identical with no visible content changes between observations

Colors

  • blue
  • light blue
  • white
  • green

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

Four identical square panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel contains green pixelated text reading "*KATE*" centered horizontally and vertically against a light-to-dark blue radial gradient background. The text is flanked by small green asterisks on both sides of the word KATE. All four panels display identical visual content with no discernible differences between them. The image has low-resolution pixelation consistent with early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Green text *KATE* with asterisks on blue gradient background, four identical frames in

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
  • 20090817181738556366470

Named Entities

  • KATE

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • kate buddy icon
  • green kate text
  • blue gradient kate icon
  • asterisk kate icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected - all frames identical
  • quarantined description: Green text *KATE* with asterisks on blue gradient background, four identical frames in grid layout.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No animation detected - all four frames identical with no visible content changes between observations.
  • quarantined wordwall: identical panels
  • quarantined wordwall: 4x4 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution graphics
  • text-based icon

Visible Text

  • *KATE*

Wordwall

  • green text
  • *KATE*
  • asterisks
  • blue gradient background
  • radial gradient
  • pixelated font
  • identical
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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
20090817181738556366470
Archive entry
20090817181738556366470.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 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#20090817181738556366470.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090817181738556366470.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016