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Pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on blue background with pink text blocks.

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Pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on blue background with pink text blocks.

Pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on blue background with pink text blocks. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Mood

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with text blocks and animal pair.

Composition

  • left: animal pair (cat behind duckling)
  • right: vertical text blocks
  • bottom-left: additional text block

Dense Caption

Blue background. Left side shows pixelated brown tabby cat standing behind small yellow duckling; both face right, cat's head slightly tilted down toward duckling. Right side has two vertical pink text blocks: top reads 'i wonder if he even knows im alive', bottom reads 'it was a secret but now its not'. Bottom left corner contains additional pink text block reading 'will he ever know how i feel'. All text uses pixelated font with no punctuation except apostrophe in 'im' and 'its'.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on blue background with pink text blocks.

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
  • 20080314123556957849993

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown cat yellow duckling blue background pink text
  • cat behind duckling pixelated text melancholic mood
  • blue background brown tabby yellow duckling text blocks

Visible Text

  • i wonder if he even knows im alive
  • it was a secret but now its not
  • will he ever know how i feel

Wordwall

  • brown tabby cat
  • yellow duckling
  • blue background
  • pink pixelated text
  • no punctuation
  • pixelated image
  • cat behind duckling
  • text blocks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080314123556957849993
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC

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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/84/842e3144b06dc3db44ca2fbd5942da6f6b5af9d39a65884453273d5034c18003.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC
Archive ID
842e3144b06dc3db
SHA-256
842e3144b06dc3db44ca2fbd5942da6f6b5af9d39a65884453273d5034c18003
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:48 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.106653

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on blue background with pink text blocks.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 06:54 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,826 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 638

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • confessional (mood, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text heavy (style, 0.80)
  • brown tabby cat (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow duckling (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with text blocks and animal pair.

Colors

  • blue
  • brown
  • yellow
  • pink

Composition

  • left: animal pair (cat behind duckling)
  • right: vertical text blocks
  • bottom-left: additional text block

Dense Caption

Blue background. Left side shows pixelated brown tabby cat standing behind small yellow duckling; both face right, cat's head slightly tilted down toward duckling. Right side has two vertical pink text blocks: top reads 'i wonder if he even knows im alive', bottom reads 'it was a secret but now its not'. Bottom left corner contains additional pink text block reading 'will he ever know how i feel'. All text uses pixelated font with no punctuation except apostrophe in 'im' and 'its'.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on blue background with pink text blocks.

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
  • 20080314123556957849993

Mood

  • melancholic
  • confessional

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • cat behind duckling pixelated text melancholic mood
  • blue background brown tabby yellow duckling text blocks

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-heavy
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • brown tabby cat
  • yellow duckling

Visible Text

  • i wonder if he even knows im alive
  • it was a secret but now its not
  • will he ever know how i feel

Wordwall

  • brown tabby cat
  • yellow duckling
  • blue background
  • pink pixelated text
  • no punctuation
  • pixelated image
  • cat behind duckling
  • text blocks
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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
20080314123556957849993
Archive entry
20080314123556957849993.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 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#20080314123556957849993.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080314123556957849993.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016