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Blue background with white circles and black text reading 'hey its katie' in pixelated font.

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Blue background with white circles and black text reading 'hey its katie' in pixelated font.

Blue background with white circles and black text reading 'hey its katie' in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text centered over background
  • circles scattered across frame

Dense Caption

The image shows a blue background filled with white circular shapes of varying sizes. Overlaid on the background is black text in a pixelated, blocky font that reads "hey" on the top line, "its" on the middle line, and "katie" on the bottom line. The text appears identical across all visible frames. The image has low resolution with noticeable pixelation.

Description

  • Blue background with white circles and black text reading 'hey its katie' in pixelated font.

Identity Hypotheses

  • katie

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

Named Entities

  • katie

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white circles text hey its katie
  • pixelated text blue background
  • white circles black font
  • hey its katie pixel art

Visible Text

  • hey
  • its
  • katie

Visually Supported Entities

  • katie

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white circles
  • pixelated text
  • black font
  • hey its katie

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808251249101280259657
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c7/c7164ad9e0dfadc6c1a8f6b0099567105d75e7f6b4588b8995a107c84dda7134.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
c7164ad9e0dfadc6
SHA-256
c7164ad9e0dfadc6c1a8f6b0099567105d75e7f6b4588b8995a107c84dda7134
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:40 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.068651

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Blue background with white circles and black text reading 'hey its katie' in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 21:30 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,967 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 557

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • casual (mood, 0.80)
  • friendly (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • circles (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • text centered over background
  • circles scattered across frame

Dense Caption

The image shows a blue background filled with white circular shapes of varying sizes. Overlaid on the background is black text in a pixelated, blocky font that reads "hey" on the top line, "its" on the middle line, and "katie" on the bottom line. The text appears identical across all visible frames. The image has low resolution with noticeable pixelation.

Description

  • Blue background with white circles and black text reading 'hey its katie' in pixelated font.

Identity Hypotheses

  • katie

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

  • casual
  • friendly

Named Entities

  • katie

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white circles text hey its katie
  • pixelated text blue background
  • white circles black font
  • hey its katie pixel art

Objects

  • circles

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • text
  • circles

Visible Text

  • hey
  • its
  • katie

Visually Supported Entities

  • katie

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white circles
  • pixelated text
  • black font
  • hey its katie
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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
200808251249101280259657
Archive entry
200808251249101280259657.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#200808251249101280259657.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808251249101280259657.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016