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A pixelated cat and duck on a blue background with pink text reading "TRUE <3" on the right.

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A pixelated cat and duck on a blue background with pink text reading "TRUE <3" on the right.

A pixelated cat and duck on a blue background with pink text reading "TRUE <3" on the right. 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

  • cat behind duckling
  • text on right
  • solid blue background on right

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated cat with brown and black fur standing behind a yellow duckling on a light blue background. The cat has a neutral expression with black eyes and a small nose. The duckling is positioned in front of the cat, facing left. On the right side of the image, against a solid blue background, there is pink pixelated text that reads "TRUE" followed by a heart symbol made of pixels. The overall style is low-resolution and retro, typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated cat and duck on a blue background with pink text reading "TRUE <3" on the right.

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

  • pixelated cat duckling
  • TRUE <3
  • blue background
  • retro digital graphics

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • cat

Visible Text

  • TRUE
  • <3

Wordwall

  • pixelated cat
  • yellow duckling
  • light blue background
  • solid blue background
  • pink text
  • TRUE
  • <3
  • brown and black fur
  • neutral expression
  • black eyes
  • small nose
  • facing left
  • retro digital graphics

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070830122123748521912
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d2/d2c1bc519ce3c4abb89fd104565a19b5ec864b1d678332d2312862c40a886f14.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
d2c1bc519ce3c4ab
SHA-256
d2c1bc519ce3c4abb89fd104565a19b5ec864b1d678332d2312862c40a886f14
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 07:33 UTC
Run
15963
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000070

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 00:53 UTC
Run
1269
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:46 UTC
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated cat and duck on a blue background with pink text reading "TRUE <3" on the right.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,138 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 606

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • cat (subject, 0.80)
  • duckling (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • blue
  • brown
  • black
  • yellow
  • pink

Composition

  • cat behind duckling
  • text on right
  • solid blue background on right

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated cat with brown and black fur standing behind a yellow duckling on a light blue background. The cat has a neutral expression with black eyes and a small nose. The duckling is positioned in front of the cat, facing left. On the right side of the image, against a solid blue background, there is pink pixelated text that reads "TRUE" followed by a heart symbol made of pixels. The overall style is low-resolution and retro, typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated cat and duck on a blue background with pink text reading "TRUE <3" on the right.

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

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated cat duckling
  • TRUE <3
  • blue background
  • retro digital graphics

Objects

  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital graphics

Subjects

  • cat
  • duckling

Visible Text

  • TRUE
  • <3

Wordwall

  • pixelated cat
  • yellow duckling
  • light blue background
  • solid blue background
  • pink text
  • TRUE
  • <3
  • brown and black fur
  • neutral expression
  • black eyes
  • small nose
  • facing left
  • retro digital graphics
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:40 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20070830122123748521912
Archive entry
20070830122123748521912.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#20070830122123748521912.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070830122123748521912.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016