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Blue background with orange 'CATE' text repeated in a pattern and scattered orange dots

Blue background with orange 'CATE' text repeated in a pattern and scattered orange dots. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, L…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • scattered dots
  • bottom-right rectangle

Dense Caption

Blue background with scattered orange dots. Orange 'CATE' text repeated in a grid pattern across the image. Text appears in uppercase, sans-serif font. The grid consists of three rows and four columns of 'CATE' text. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner. No visible animation or motion changes. Pixel density is low, characteristic of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Blue background with orange 'CATE' text repeated in a pattern and scattered orange dots

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue orange CATE
  • CATE text blue background
  • orange dots blue
  • gray rectangle CATE text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with orange 'CATE' text repeated in a grid pattern and scattered orange dots.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: orange dots blue grid
  • quarantined retrieval: blue orange CATE grid

Visible Text

  • CATE

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • orange dots
  • CATE text
  • pattern
  • gray rectangle
  • sans-serif font
  • repeated text
  • low pixel density

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007082719153655736011
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7d/7d213ee98bb31348c0e9aad3bd8bc6fc79e3996c0702fc017946088d71bd27ee.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
7d213ee98bb31348
SHA-256
7d213ee98bb31348c0e9aad3bd8bc6fc79e3996c0702fc017946088d71bd27ee
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:15 UTC
Run
1079
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083318

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with orange 'CATE' text repeated in a pattern and scattered orange dots

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 06:24 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,163 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,117, response 652

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • orange
  • gray

Composition

  • scattered dots
  • bottom-right rectangle

Dense Caption

Blue background with scattered orange dots. Orange 'CATE' text repeated in a grid pattern across the image. Text appears in uppercase, sans-serif font. The grid consists of three rows and four columns of 'CATE' text. A solid gray rectangle occupies the bottom-right corner. No visible animation or motion changes. Pixel density is low, characteristic of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Blue background with orange 'CATE' text repeated in a pattern and scattered orange dots

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue orange CATE
  • CATE text blue background
  • orange dots blue
  • gray rectangle CATE text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with orange 'CATE' text repeated in a grid pattern and scattered orange dots.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid pattern
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: orange dots blue grid
  • quarantined retrieval: blue orange CATE grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive

Visible Text

  • CATE

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • orange dots
  • CATE text
  • pattern
  • gray rectangle
  • sans-serif font
  • repeated text
  • low pixel density
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:23 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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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
2007082719153655736011
Archive entry
2007082719153655736011.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#2007082719153655736011.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007082719153655736011.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016