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Pixelated hippopotamus image with blue background and yellow text reading MeEt KaTy :) and a threatening message.

Pixelated hippopotamus image with blue background and yellow text reading MeEt KaTy :) and a threatening message. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Action

Style

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Source terms

Composition

  • split left image right text
  • text
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated hippopotamus head and upper body facing right on light blue sky and brown ground background. Blue background with yellow pixelated text: top-right "MeEt KaTy :)"; bottom-left "katy says get out of my way or else i will roll u ovr"; bottom-right "seriously u wil tke a trp 2 da ER room". Text uses lowercase letters with some uppercase for emphasis. Pixelation creates blocky appearance. Blue background is solid color. Hippo has brown skin with lighter pinkish areas on face and ears. Eyes are dark brown with white highlights. Mouth is open showing teeth. Text is in a retro digital font. All text is yellow. No visible animation. Composition is split into left image and right text panels.

Description

  • Pixelated hippopotamus image with blue background and yellow text reading MeEt KaTy :) and a threatening message.

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Named Entities

  • katy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hippopotamus blue background yellow text
  • MeEt KaTy :)
  • get out of my way roll u ovr
  • ER room
  • pixelated hippo
  • threatening message
  • retro digital font
  • open mouth teeth

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image
  • quarantined wordwall: text panels
  • quarantined objects: text panels
  • quarantined composition: text panels

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: humor
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Visible Text

  • MeEt KaTy :)
  • katy says get out of my way or else i will roll u ovr
  • seriously u wil tke a trp 2 da ER room

Visually Supported Entities

  • katy

Wordwall

  • hippopotamus
  • blue background
  • yellow text
  • MeEt KaTy :)
  • get out of my way
  • roll u ovr
  • ER room
  • pixelated
  • retro font
  • open mouth
  • brown skin
  • pinkish face
  • light blue sky
  • brown ground
  • threatening message
  • lowercase letters
  • blocky appearance
  • solid background
  • teeth
  • white highlights
  • dark brown eyes
  • text
  • split composition
  • yellow font
  • pixelated text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811201357181603985958
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bc/bc60d529929a497fe92ed281f855fd5a483d594936f2031a4eb3055535ca4728.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
bc60d529929a497f
SHA-256
bc60d529929a497fe92ed281f855fd5a483d594936f2031a4eb3055535ca4728
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:59 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.134044

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.912460onnx/unsafe0.134044onnx/nsfw0.074669onnx/nsfl0.059375
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Pixelated hippopotamus image with blue background and yellow text reading MeEt KaTy :) and a threatening message.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 09:44 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,704 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 1,028

Review tags

  • facing right (action, 0.80)
  • open mouth (action, 0.80)
  • teeth visible (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • threatening (mood, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • hippopotamus (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • facing right
  • open mouth
  • teeth visible

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • brown
  • pinkish
  • light blue
  • white

Composition

  • split left image right text
  • text
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated hippopotamus head and upper body facing right on light blue sky and brown ground background. Blue background with yellow pixelated text: top-right "MeEt KaTy :)"; bottom-left "katy says get out of my way or else i will roll u ovr"; bottom-right "seriously u wil tke a trp 2 da ER room". Text uses lowercase letters with some uppercase for emphasis. Pixelation creates blocky appearance. Blue background is solid color. Hippo has brown skin with lighter pinkish areas on face and ears. Eyes are dark brown with white highlights. Mouth is open showing teeth. Text is in a retro digital font. All text is yellow. No visible animation. Composition is split into left image and right text panels.

Description

  • Pixelated hippopotamus image with blue background and yellow text reading MeEt KaTy :) and a threatening message.

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • threatening
  • humorous

Named Entities

  • katy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hippopotamus blue background yellow text
  • MeEt KaTy :)
  • get out of my way roll u ovr
  • ER room
  • pixelated hippo
  • threatening message
  • retro digital font
  • open mouth teeth

Objects

  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
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  • quarantined objects: text panels
  • quarantined composition: text panels

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: humor
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky

Subjects

  • hippopotamus

Visible Text

  • MeEt KaTy :)
  • katy says get out of my way or else i will roll u ovr
  • seriously u wil tke a trp 2 da ER room

Visually Supported Entities

  • katy

Wordwall

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  • ER room
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  • open mouth
  • brown skin
  • pinkish face
  • light blue sky
  • brown ground
  • threatening message
  • lowercase letters
  • blocky appearance
  • solid background
  • teeth
  • white highlights
  • dark brown eyes
  • text
  • split composition
  • yellow font
  • pixelated text
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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
200811201357181603985958
Archive entry
200811201357181603985958.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#200811201357181603985958.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811201357181603985958.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016