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Pixelated close-up of a cat-like creature with wide eyes, pink nose, and exaggerated open mouth showing teeth against dark blue background.

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Pixelated close-up of a cat-like creature with wide eyes, pink nose, and exaggerated open mouth showing teeth against dark blue background.

Pixelated close-up of a cat-like creature with wide eyes, pink nose, and exaggerated open mouth showing teeth against dark blue background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up portrait
  • centered subject
  • no visible borders

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated static icon featuring a stylized feline face. The creature has large black eyes with white highlights, a small pink triangular nose, and an extremely wide open mouth revealing multiple rows of sharp brownish-black teeth. Its fur appears light brown with darker brown patches on the head. Two pointed ears are visible at the top. The background is composed of dark blue and gray pixels in a blurred pattern. The image has low resolution typical of early 2000s digital art, with distinct pixel blocks forming all elements.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a cat-like creature with wide eyes, pink nose, and exaggerated open mouth showing teeth against dark blue background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated cat grin
  • sharp teeth feline icon
  • dark blue background pixel art
  • low resolution animal face

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visually Supported Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

Wordwall

  • feline face
  • wide eyes
  • pink nose
  • sharp teeth
  • light brown fur
  • dark patches
  • pointed ears
  • pixelated
  • open mouth
  • dark blue background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080208174506271255566
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/83/83a5c01a9245e51fb4d3b7229fcee0d4abc7187956c074e052404f9fc34b731e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC
Archive ID
83a5c01a9245e51f
SHA-256
83a5c01a9245e51fb4d3b7229fcee0d4abc7187956c074e052404f9fc34b731e
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:29 UTC
Run
1111
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074597

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated close-up of a cat-like creature with wide eyes, pink nose, and exaggerated open mouth showing teeth against dark blue background.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 18:44 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,183 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 729

Review tags

  • grinning widely (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • disturbing (mood, 0.80)
  • menacing (mood, 0.80)
  • unhinged (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital art (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • stylized animal illustration (style, 0.80)
  • cat like creature (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • grinning widely

Colors

  • pink
  • brown
  • black
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • close-up portrait
  • centered subject
  • no visible borders

Dense Caption

The image is a pixelated static icon featuring a stylized feline face. The creature has large black eyes with white highlights, a small pink triangular nose, and an extremely wide open mouth revealing multiple rows of sharp brownish-black teeth. Its fur appears light brown with darker brown patches on the head. Two pointed ears are visible at the top. The background is composed of dark blue and gray pixels in a blurred pattern. The image has low resolution typical of early 2000s digital art, with distinct pixel blocks forming all elements.

Description

  • Pixelated close-up of a cat-like creature with wide eyes, pink nose, and exaggerated open mouth showing teeth against dark blue background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016

Mood

  • menacing
  • unhinged
  • disturbing

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated cat grin
  • sharp teeth feline icon
  • dark blue background pixel art
  • low resolution animal face

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution digital art
  • stylized animal illustration

Subjects

  • cat-like creature

Visually Supported Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

Wordwall

  • feline face
  • wide eyes
  • pink nose
  • sharp teeth
  • light brown fur
  • dark patches
  • pointed ears
  • pixelated
  • open mouth
  • dark blue background
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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
20080208174506271255566
Archive entry
20080208174506271255566.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 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#20080208174506271255566.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080208174506271255566.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016