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Blue background with multiple gray butterflies and text reading 'i catch butterflies' in black outlined white letters.

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Blue background with multiple gray butterflies and text reading 'i catch butterflies' in black outlined white letters.

Blue background with multiple gray butterflies and text reading 'i catch butterflies' in black outlined white letters. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Color

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Composition

  • vertical text stack on left
  • butterflies distributed across frame
  • largest butterfly below text

Dense Caption

The image shows a blue gradient background with numerous gray butterfly silhouettes scattered across it. The largest butterfly is positioned below the text on the left side of the frame. Text appears as three lines: 'i', 'catch', and 'butterflies', each rendered in white pixelated letters with black outlines, stacked vertically on the left. Smaller butterflies are visible throughout the background, some partially obscured by the larger ones.

Description

  • Blue background with multiple gray butterflies and text reading 'i catch butterflies' in black outlined white letters.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090305182104886533268

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • gray butterfly silhouettes blue gradient
  • white text black outline butterflies
  • butterflies scattered blue background

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • i
  • catch
  • butterflies

Wordwall

  • blue gradient background
  • gray butterfly silhouettes
  • white text with black outline
  • text reads 'i catch butterflies'
  • butterflies scattered across frame

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090305182104886533268
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

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GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
8ce120435d396d53
SHA-256
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August 31, 2026 at 16:01 UTC
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Blue background with multiple gray butterflies and text reading 'i catch butterflies' in black outlined white letters.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 01:47 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,204 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 631

Review tags

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  • blue
  • gray
  • white
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  • vertical text stack on left
  • butterflies distributed across frame
  • largest butterfly below text

Dense Caption

The image shows a blue gradient background with numerous gray butterfly silhouettes scattered across it. The largest butterfly is positioned below the text on the left side of the frame. Text appears as three lines: 'i', 'catch', and 'butterflies', each rendered in white pixelated letters with black outlines, stacked vertically on the left. Smaller butterflies are visible throughout the background, some partially obscured by the larger ones.

Description

  • Blue background with multiple gray butterflies and text reading 'i catch butterflies' in black outlined white letters.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20090305182104886533268

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  • blue background butterflies text i catch butterflies
  • gray butterfly silhouettes blue gradient
  • white text black outline butterflies
  • butterflies scattered blue background

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Style

  • pixelated
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  • i
  • catch
  • butterflies

Wordwall

  • blue gradient background
  • gray butterfly silhouettes
  • white text with black outline
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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
20090305182104886533268
Archive entry
20090305182104886533268.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#20090305182104886533268.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090305182104886533268.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016