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A pixelated orange and white cat with black eyes and a pink nose appears on the left side of a blue background with yellow text.

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A pixelated orange and white cat with black eyes and a pink nose appears on the left side of a blue background with yellow text.

A pixelated orange and white cat with black eyes and a pink nose appears on the left side of a blue background with yellow text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left-aligned cat
  • right-aligned vertical text
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated orange and white cat with black eyes and a pink nose on the left side of a solid light blue background. The cat has orange fur on its head and ears, with white fur on its face and chest. To the right of the cat, there is yellow pixelated text arranged vertically: 'could', 'of', 'had', 'a', 'us'. The text is rendered in a blocky, retro digital font. The overall image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated orange and white cat with black eyes and a pink nose appears on the left side of a blue background with yellow text.

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
  • 200811221817311111628308

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange white cat pixelated
  • yellow text could of had a us
  • blue background cat text
  • pixelated cat text blue background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static image, not animated

Source Metadata Interpretation

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

Subjects

  • cat

Visible Text

  • could
  • of
  • had
  • a
  • us

Wordwall

  • orange and white cat
  • black eyes
  • pink nose
  • light blue background
  • yellow pixelated text
  • vertical text layout
  • blocky digital font
  • low-resolution pixels
  • cat face
  • text 'could of had a us'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811221817311111628308
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/97/97671eb58da81759fdcd5cb82591ebf8a6bb7301b9e6b967be5354ec80c836e9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
97671eb58da81759
SHA-256
97671eb58da81759fdcd5cb82591ebf8a6bb7301b9e6b967be5354ec80c836e9
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:12 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.070948

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated orange and white cat with black eyes and a pink nose appears on the left side of a blue background with yellow text.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 10:06 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,260 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 833

Review tags

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  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • cat (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • orange
  • white
  • black
  • pink
  • light blue
  • yellow

Composition

  • left-aligned cat
  • right-aligned vertical text
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated orange and white cat with black eyes and a pink nose on the left side of a solid light blue background. The cat has orange fur on its head and ears, with white fur on its face and chest. To the right of the cat, there is yellow pixelated text arranged vertically: 'could', 'of', 'had', 'a', 'us'. The text is rendered in a blocky, retro digital font. The overall image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated orange and white cat with black eyes and a pink nose appears on the left side of a blue background with yellow text.

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
  • 200811221817311111628308

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange white cat pixelated
  • yellow text could of had a us
  • blue background cat text
  • pixelated cat text blue background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static image, not animated

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • cat

Visible Text

  • could
  • of
  • had
  • a
  • us

Wordwall

  • orange and white cat
  • black eyes
  • pink nose
  • light blue background
  • yellow pixelated text
  • vertical text layout
  • blocky digital font
  • low-resolution pixels
  • cat face
  • text 'could of had a us'
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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
200811221817311111628308
Archive entry
200811221817311111628308.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#200811221817311111628308.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811221817311111628308.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016