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A pixelated image shows a brown cat and yellow duckling on a blue background, with green text reading 'Muffy' and 'Shadow' on a dark green dotted pattern.

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A pixelated image shows a brown cat and yellow duckling on a blue background, with green text reading 'Muffy' and 'Shadow' on a dark green dotted pattern.

A pixelated image shows a brown cat and yellow duckling on a blue background, with green text reading 'Muffy' and 'Shadow' on a dark green dotted pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM b…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left section: cat and duckling on blue background
  • right section: text on dotted green background

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated digital composition divided into two main sections. On the left, a brown cat with visible fur texture and a yellow duckling are positioned on a solid light blue background; the cat appears to be leaning toward the duckling. On the right, a dark green background features a pattern of small green dots. Overlaid on this background, green pixelated text reads 'Muffy' in the upper right section and 'or Shadow' in the lower right section. The text and background pattern are static. The overall style is low-resolution, characteristic of early digital graphics.

Description

A pixelated image shows a brown cat and yellow duckling on a blue background, with green text reading 'Muffy' and 'Shadow' on a dark green dotted pattern.

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

  • brown cat yellow duckling
  • Muffy or Shadow text
  • pixelated cat duckling blue background
  • green dotted background text
  • low-resolution digital graphics
  • static image cat duckling
  • green pixelated text Muffy Shadow
  • blue background cat duckling

Subjects

  • cat

Visible Text

  • Muffy
  • or Shadow

Wordwall

  • brown cat
  • yellow duckling
  • light blue background
  • dark green dotted background
  • green pixelated text
  • Muffy
  • or Shadow
  • pixelated digital composition
  • low-resolution graphics
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070730191710709026395
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7f/7f537cf4eb7b0b1f7742239d813b4736fa965c8ba42a9e83ccc85ad69f051206.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
7f537cf4eb7b0b1f
SHA-256
7f537cf4eb7b0b1f7742239d813b4736fa965c8ba42a9e83ccc85ad69f051206
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:47 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.105019

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated image shows a brown cat and yellow duckling on a blue background, with green text reading 'Muffy' and 'Shadow' on a dark green dotted pattern.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 16:38 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,554 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 740

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark green (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cat (subject, 0.80)
  • duckling (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • yellow
  • light blue
  • dark green
  • green

Composition

  • left section: cat and duckling on blue background
  • right section: text on dotted green background

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated digital composition divided into two main sections. On the left, a brown cat with visible fur texture and a yellow duckling are positioned on a solid light blue background; the cat appears to be leaning toward the duckling. On the right, a dark green background features a pattern of small green dots. Overlaid on this background, green pixelated text reads 'Muffy' in the upper right section and 'or Shadow' in the lower right section. The text and background pattern are static. The overall style is low-resolution, characteristic of early digital graphics.

Description

A pixelated image shows a brown cat and yellow duckling on a blue background, with green text reading 'Muffy' and 'Shadow' on a dark green dotted pattern.

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

  • brown cat yellow duckling
  • Muffy or Shadow text
  • pixelated cat duckling blue background
  • green dotted background text
  • low-resolution digital graphics
  • static image cat duckling
  • green pixelated text Muffy Shadow
  • blue background cat duckling

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital graphics

Subjects

  • cat
  • duckling

Visible Text

  • Muffy
  • or Shadow

Wordwall

  • brown cat
  • yellow duckling
  • light blue background
  • dark green dotted background
  • green pixelated text
  • Muffy
  • or Shadow
  • pixelated digital composition
  • low-resolution graphics
  • static image
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:52 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 (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20070730191710709026395
Archive entry
20070730191710709026395.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#20070730191710709026395.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070730191710709026395.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016