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Pixelated of six with distinct backgrounds and text elements, including letters K, A, T, E, and KATE on various patterns

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Pixelated of six with distinct backgrounds and text elements, including letters K, A, T, E, and KATE on various patterns

Pixelated of six with distinct backgrounds and text elements, including letters K, A, T, E, and KATE on various patterns. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Source terms

Composition

  • six
  • distinct backgrounds
  • text-centered

Dense Caption

Six panels arranged in a 2x3 grid. Top-left panel: dark background with colorful heart patterns and a bright pink square containing a green 'K'. Top-middle: light pink background with faint heart outlines and a blue 'A' in a pink square. Top-right: white background with purple floral patterns and a cyan 'T' in a pink square. Bottom-left: pink and brown striped background with small pink hearts and a purple 'E' in a pink square. Bottom-middle: bright pink background with white polka dots and 'KATE' in black letters within a pink square. Bottom-right: solid gray background with no visible elements. All panels use pixelated rendering with distinct color schemes and text.

Description

  • Pixelated of six with distinct backgrounds and text elements, including letters K, A, T, E, and KATE on various patterns

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • KATE text
  • heart patterns polka dots
  • pink square green letter
  • blue letter cyan letter
  • striped background floral patterns

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated grid of six panels with distinct backgrounds and text elements, including letters K, A, T, E, and KATE on various patterns.
  • quarantined composition: six panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid

Visible Text

  • K
  • A
  • T
  • E
  • KATE

Wordwall

  • K
  • A
  • T
  • E
  • KATE
  • heart patterns
  • polka dots
  • striped background
  • floral patterns
  • pink square
  • green letter
  • blue letter
  • cyan letter
  • purple letter
  • black letters
  • dark background
  • light pink background
  • white background
  • gray background
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091120141252924774845
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
7.4 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
c187dc6dade93443
SHA-256
c187dc6dade93443b10e311c0a81ac4d626cb386d0b7a29be541a42c72c2104d
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 4, 2026 at 19:30 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000562

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:37 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated of six with distinct backgrounds and text elements, including letters K, A, T, E, and KATE on various patterns

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 20:27 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,713 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,166, response 752

Review tags

  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • colorful (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
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  • polka dots (subject, 0.80)
  • stripes (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • green
  • blue
  • cyan
  • purple
  • black
  • white
  • dark
  • light pink
  • gray
  • brown

Composition

  • six
  • distinct backgrounds
  • text-centered

Dense Caption

Six panels arranged in a 2x3 grid. Top-left panel: dark background with colorful heart patterns and a bright pink square containing a green 'K'. Top-middle: light pink background with faint heart outlines and a blue 'A' in a pink square. Top-right: white background with purple floral patterns and a cyan 'T' in a pink square. Bottom-left: pink and brown striped background with small pink hearts and a purple 'E' in a pink square. Bottom-middle: bright pink background with white polka dots and 'KATE' in black letters within a pink square. Bottom-right: solid gray background with no visible elements. All panels use pixelated rendering with distinct color schemes and text.

Description

  • Pixelated of six with distinct backgrounds and text elements, including letters K, A, T, E, and KATE on various patterns

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic
  • colorful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • KATE text
  • heart patterns polka dots
  • pink square green letter
  • blue letter cyan letter
  • striped background floral patterns

Objects

  • hearts
  • polka dots
  • stripes
  • floral patterns

Preprocessing Notes

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Style

  • pixelated
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Subjects

  • text
  • hearts
  • polka dots
  • stripes
  • floral patterns

Visible Text

  • K
  • A
  • T
  • E
  • KATE

Wordwall

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  • A
  • T
  • E
  • KATE
  • heart patterns
  • polka dots
  • striped background
  • floral patterns
  • pink square
  • green letter
  • blue letter
  • cyan letter
  • purple letter
  • black letters
  • dark background
  • light pink background
  • white background
  • gray background
  • pixelated rendering
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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
20091120141252924774845
Archive entry
20091120141252924774845.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#20091120141252924774845.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091120141252924774845.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016