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Pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on blue background with text about friendship.

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Pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on blue background with text about friendship.

Pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on blue background with text about friendship. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left image , right text

Dense Caption

Brown pixelated cat stands behind small yellow pixelated duckling against solid light blue background. Cat's head is slightly tilted, eyes are closed or squinted. Duckling faces left, beak visible. Text in white blocky font: 'Friends come, and friends go.' on black right panel; 'Best Friends stay' below left image; 'FOREVER.' on right panel.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on blue background with text about friendship.

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

  • brown cat yellow duckling blue background
  • friends come and go best friends stay forever
  • pixelated cat duckling friendship text
  • white blocky font sentimentality

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined objects: text panels
  • quarantined composition: left image panel, right text panels

Subjects

  • cat

Visible Text

  • Friends come, and friends go.
  • Best Friends stay
  • FOREVER.

Visually Supported Entities

  • cat
  • duckling

Wordwall

  • brown cat
  • yellow duckling
  • blue background
  • white text
  • pixelated art
  • friends come and go
  • best friends stay
  • forever

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070925180141876904644
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c2/c25acb73e5715d0cfe05f5936d91b6d8b9d0543553b1a191a1b1233a2f925e60.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 UTC
Archive ID
c25acb73e5715d0c
SHA-256
c25acb73e5715d0cfe05f5936d91b6d8b9d0543553b1a191a1b1233a2f925e60
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:38 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083697

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on blue background with text about friendship.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 04:54 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,447 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 583

Review tags

  • facing left (action, 0.80)
  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
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  • cat (subject, 0.80)
  • duckling (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • standing
  • facing left

Colors

  • brown
  • yellow
  • blue
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • left image , right text

Dense Caption

Brown pixelated cat stands behind small yellow pixelated duckling against solid light blue background. Cat's head is slightly tilted, eyes are closed or squinted. Duckling faces left, beak visible. Text in white blocky font: 'Friends come, and friends go.' on black right panel; 'Best Friends stay' below left image; 'FOREVER.' on right panel.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on blue background with text about friendship.

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

  • sentimental
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown cat yellow duckling blue background
  • friends come and go best friends stay forever
  • pixelated cat duckling friendship text
  • white blocky font sentimentality

Objects

  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined objects: text panels
  • quarantined composition: left image panel, right text panels

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • cat
  • duckling

Visible Text

  • Friends come, and friends go.
  • Best Friends stay
  • FOREVER.

Visually Supported Entities

  • cat
  • duckling

Wordwall

  • brown cat
  • yellow duckling
  • blue background
  • white text
  • pixelated art
  • friends come and go
  • best friends stay
  • forever
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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
20070925180141876904644
Archive entry
20070925180141876904644.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:47 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#20070925180141876904644.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070925180141876904644.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016