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A static image shows a brown tabby cat and a yellow duckling on a blue background.

A static image shows a brown tabby cat and a yellow duckling on a blue background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-20…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • square crop
  • two subjects
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image features a brown tabby cat with dark stripes and a yellow duckling positioned side-by-side on a solid blue background. The cat is slightly behind and to the right of the duckling, facing forward with visible eyes and a nose. The duckling is positioned to the left of the cat, facing left with a small beak and visible eye. Both animals are rendered in a pixelated style with visible dithering. The background is a uniform light blue color. The image has a square crop with no visible borders or additional elements.

Description

  • A static image shows a brown tabby cat and a yellow duckling on a blue background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown cat yellow duckling blue background
  • cat duckling pixelated
  • yellow duckling brown cat
  • blue background cat duckling
  • pixelated cat duckling
  • brown tabby cat duckling
  • duckling cat blue background
  • cat facing forward duckling facing left

Subjects

  • cat

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  • brown tabby cat
  • yellow duckling
  • blue background
  • pixelated style
  • solid color background
  • cat facing forward
  • duckling facing left
  • dithering visible
  • square crop

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070807081444132237677
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/87/8794df9376efb4a4fa2eb65507080d8452a266c5de9b18e6a8f78c01e8fd1053.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
8794df9376efb4a4
SHA-256
8794df9376efb4a4fa2eb65507080d8452a266c5de9b18e6a8f78c01e8fd1053
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 31, 2026 at 05:13 UTC
Run
1249
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.023302

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:37 UTC
Run
1127
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static image shows a brown tabby cat and a yellow duckling on a blue background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 20:04 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,537 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 688

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cat (subject, 0.80)
  • duckling (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • yellow
  • blue

Composition

  • square crop
  • two subjects
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image features a brown tabby cat with dark stripes and a yellow duckling positioned side-by-side on a solid blue background. The cat is slightly behind and to the right of the duckling, facing forward with visible eyes and a nose. The duckling is positioned to the left of the cat, facing left with a small beak and visible eye. Both animals are rendered in a pixelated style with visible dithering. The background is a uniform light blue color. The image has a square crop with no visible borders or additional elements.

Description

  • A static image shows a brown tabby cat and a yellow duckling on a blue background.

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

Mood

  • calm
  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown cat yellow duckling blue background
  • cat duckling pixelated
  • yellow duckling brown cat
  • blue background cat duckling
  • pixelated cat duckling
  • brown tabby cat duckling
  • duckling cat blue background
  • cat facing forward duckling facing left

Style

  • pixelated
  • dithered

Subjects

  • cat
  • duckling

Wordwall

  • brown tabby cat
  • yellow duckling
  • blue background
  • pixelated style
  • solid color background
  • cat facing forward
  • duckling facing left
  • dithering visible
  • square crop
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:41 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)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070807081444132237677
Archive entry
20070807081444132237677.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#20070807081444132237677.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070807081444132237677.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016