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Pixelated cartoon cat head with black and white fur, blue teardrop on right cheek, white circular ear marking, and a small smile.

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Pixelated cartoon cat head with black and white fur, blue teardrop on right cheek, white circular ear marking, and a small smile.

Pixelated cartoon cat head with black and white fur, blue teardrop on right cheek, white circular ear marking, and a small smile. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from My Buddy I…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • teardrop appears on left head only

Animation Summary

  • The left cat head displays a blue teardrop symbol on its right cheek; the right cat head lacks this symbol.

Composition

  • two heads side-by-side
  • centered
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

Two side-by-side pixelated cartoon cat heads with black and white fur patterns. Each head has large black eyes, a small black smile, and a white circular marking on the left ear. The left cat head has a blue teardrop symbol on the right cheek; the right cat head has no teardrop. Both heads have black outlines and are set against a solid gray background. The image uses a limited color palette of black, white, and blue.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon cat head with black and white fur, blue teardrop on right cheek, white circular ear marking, and a small smile.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial-downloadware
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance collection-attribute: animated
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance topic-coverage: emoticons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon cat head blue teardrop
  • pixelated cat head two heads
  • black white cat head gray background
  • teardrop symbol cartoon cat
  • cartoon cat head white ear marking
  • blue teardrop gray background
  • pixelated cat head smile
  • cartoon cat head black outlines

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): My-Buddy-Icons
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): mybuddy4
  • observation title (curated-homogeneous): 089
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2006
  • provenance era: 2006 Commercial AIM Utility Animated Icon Library
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: animated
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated identity
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial-downloadware
  • provenance topic-coverage: emoticons

Style

  • cartoon

Wordwall

  • black and white fur
  • blue teardrop
  • white ear marking
  • small smile
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • cartoon cat
  • two heads
  • black outlines
  • large eyes

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7f/7f0fb5d5a6a944298a680cc441346757270a68c79d0ea2a6f7535b0c00ca557b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 13:00 UTC
Archive ID
7f0fb5d5a6a94429
SHA-256
7f0fb5d5a6a944298a680cc441346757270a68c79d0ea2a6f7535b0c00ca557b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:38 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086588

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.919904onnx/unsafe0.086588onnx/nsfw0.054280onnx/nsfl0.032309
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated cartoon cat head with black and white fur, blue teardrop on right cheek, white circular ear marking, and a small smile.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 01:35 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,753 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,127, response 891

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • teardrop symbol (object, 0.80)
  • teardrop appears on left head only (other, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • cartoon cat head (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • teardrop appears on left head only

Animation Summary

  • The left cat head displays a blue teardrop symbol on its right cheek; the right cat head lacks this symbol.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • two heads side-by-side
  • centered
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

Two side-by-side pixelated cartoon cat heads with black and white fur patterns. Each head has large black eyes, a small black smile, and a white circular marking on the left ear. The left cat head has a blue teardrop symbol on the right cheek; the right cat head has no teardrop. Both heads have black outlines and are set against a solid gray background. The image uses a limited color palette of black, white, and blue.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon cat head with black and white fur, blue teardrop on right cheek, white circular ear marking, and a small smile.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial-downloadware
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance collection-attribute: animated
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance topic-coverage: emoticons

Mood

  • neutral
  • calm

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon cat head blue teardrop
  • pixelated cat head two heads
  • black white cat head gray background
  • teardrop symbol cartoon cat
  • cartoon cat head white ear marking
  • blue teardrop gray background
  • pixelated cat head smile
  • cartoon cat head black outlines

Objects

  • teardrop symbol

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or cropping detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): My-Buddy-Icons
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): mybuddy4
  • observation title (curated-homogeneous): 089
  • provenance era: 2006
  • provenance source-name: My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2006
  • provenance era: 2006 Commercial AIM Utility Animated Icon Library
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: animated
  • provenance topic-coverage: animated identity
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance cultural-slice: commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics
  • provenance collection-attribute: commercial-downloadware
  • provenance topic-coverage: emoticons

Style

  • pixel art
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon cat head

Wordwall

  • black and white fur
  • blue teardrop
  • white ear marking
  • small smile
  • gray background
  • pixelated
  • cartoon cat
  • two heads
  • black outlines
  • large eyes
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 06:27 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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Source semantic tags (3)
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Full source records (1)
My Buddy Icons v4 February 2006 Animated Favorites (wayback-my-buddy-icons-v4-2006-extracted-favorites)
Kind
local-directory
Era
2006 Commercial AIM Utility Animated Icon Library
Type
safely extracted official animated Favorites library from an archived AIM utility
Title
089
Archive entry
089.gif
Observed
July 21, 2026 at 20:40 UTC
Rights
vendor-authored commercial utility assets; research/reference only by default
Slice
commercial AIM customization software distributing polished animated emoticon, character, object, and reaction identity graphics
Original: https://web.archive.org/web/20060209183147id_/http://www.buddy-icons.com/mybuddy4.exe#089.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20060209183147id_/http://www.buddy-icons.com/mybuddy4.exe#089.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20060314182033/http://www.buddy-icons.com/download.htm