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A split-screen image with a pixelated cat face on the left and blue text on the right, featuring a close-up of a cat's eye and a large eye graphic below.

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A split-screen image with a pixelated cat face on the left and blue text on the right, featuring a close-up of a cat's eye and a large eye graphic below.

A split-screen image with a pixelated cat face on the left and blue text on the right, featuring a close-up of a cat's eye and a large eye graphic below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM bu…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split-screen
  • four quadrants
  • top-left cat face
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left eye
  • bottom-right solid color

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a pixelated cat face with a blue eye, gray fur, and small red nose. Top-right quadrant has light blue background with blue pixelated text ".LO.V.E". Bottom-left quadrant displays a large pixelated eye with black pupil, green and blue iris, and white highlights. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. The cat face appears static while the eye graphic is a separate element. All elements are low-resolution pixel art with visible dithering.

Description

A split-screen image with a pixelated cat face on the left and blue text on the right, featuring a close-up of a cat's eye and a large eye graphic below.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • .LO.V.E cat eye
  • pixelated eye graphic
  • blue text split-screen
  • cat face blue eye

Style

  • dithering

Visible Text

  • .LO.V.E

Wordwall

  • .LO.V.E
  • blue eye
  • gray fur
  • red nose
  • pixelated
  • light blue background
  • solid gray
  • green iris
  • black pupil
  • white highlights
  • dithering
  • split-screen
  • low-resolution
  • cat face
  • eye graphic

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090404105433240337491
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a7/a74d8ff8d4681ae7ac129a43cdddf9e33e90d529f255dcd513489ddc0e607fa3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC
Archive ID
a74d8ff8d4681ae7
SHA-256
a74d8ff8d4681ae7ac129a43cdddf9e33e90d529f255dcd513489ddc0e607fa3
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 05:29 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000056

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.000056falseviolence/graphic0.000020falseharassment0.000015falseillicit0.000008falseviolence0.000008falseself-harm0.000006falseself-harm/intent0.000002falsehate0.000002falsesexual/minors0.000001falseharassment/threatening0.000001falseillicit/violent0.000001falseself-harm/instructions0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:22 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.124938

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926590onnx/unsafe0.124938onnx/nsfw0.084707onnx/nsfl0.040231
Enrichment records (1)
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A split-screen image with a pixelated cat face on the left and blue text on the right, featuring a close-up of a cat's eye and a large eye graphic below.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 05:25 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,481 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 720

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dithering (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • cat face (subject, 0.80)
  • eye graphic (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • gray
  • red
  • light blue
  • green
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • split-screen
  • four quadrants
  • top-left cat face
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left eye
  • bottom-right solid color

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a pixelated cat face with a blue eye, gray fur, and small red nose. Top-right quadrant has light blue background with blue pixelated text ".LO.V.E". Bottom-left quadrant displays a large pixelated eye with black pupil, green and blue iris, and white highlights. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. The cat face appears static while the eye graphic is a separate element. All elements are low-resolution pixel art with visible dithering.

Description

A split-screen image with a pixelated cat face on the left and blue text on the right, featuring a close-up of a cat's eye and a large eye graphic below.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • .LO.V.E cat eye
  • pixelated eye graphic
  • blue text split-screen
  • cat face blue eye

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithering

Subjects

  • cat face
  • eye graphic

Visible Text

  • .LO.V.E

Wordwall

  • .LO.V.E
  • blue eye
  • gray fur
  • red nose
  • pixelated
  • light blue background
  • solid gray
  • green iris
  • black pupil
  • white highlights
  • dithering
  • split-screen
  • low-resolution
  • cat face
  • eye graphic
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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
20090404105433240337491
Archive entry
20090404105433240337491.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 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#20090404105433240337491.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090404105433240337491.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016