_Microwave Cat_ is a pixel-art animation showing a yellow figure interacting with a microwave, where the cat inside changes from normal to red and back.

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_Microwave Cat_ is a pixel-art animation showing a yellow figure interacting with a microwave, where the cat inside changes from normal to red and back.

_Microwave Cat_ is a pixel-art animation showing a yellow figure interacting with a microwave, where the cat inside changes from normal to red and back. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM bud…

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Animation

  • sequential color change of cat from brown to red and back
  • microwave door opening/closing

Animation Summary

The animation shows a yellow figure interacting with a microwave, where the cat inside changes from brown to bright red and back while the microwave door opens and closes.

Composition

  • in 4
  • text below each frame

Dense Caption

The image displays a grid of 14 frames depicting an animated sequence. A small yellow figure stands next to a brown microwave on a dark blue background. The microwave door is open in some frames, revealing a brown cat with a curved tail. In later frames, the cat inside turns bright red while still visible through the microwave door. Green 'HI' text appears above the microwave in several frames. Each frame has '_Microwave Cat_' text below it on a gray bar. The animation shows sequential changes: initial interaction (figure holding something), microwave door opening, cat's color shifting to red, and returning to normal brown.

Description

_Microwave Cat_ is a pixel-art animation showing a yellow figure interacting with a microwave, where the cat inside changes from normal to red and back.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • microwave cat pixel art
  • yellow figure microwave interaction
  • cat turns red in microwave
  • _Microwave Cat_ text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: 14 frames in 4 rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Visible Text

  • _Microwave Cat_
  • HI

Visually Supported Entities

  • _Microwave Cat_

Wordwall

  • yellow figure
  • brown microwave
  • dark blue background
  • _Microwave Cat_ text
  • green 'HI' text
  • brown cat with curved tail
  • cat turns bright red
  • microwave door open
  • pixel-art style

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
25239
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:21 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.2 KB
Motion
Animated (15 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/ec/ec4012ab1f653f61f71273dde9bdb21c1d09a03e68283aed0870a287316935b8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:21 UTC
Archive ID
ec4012ab1f653f61
SHA-256
ec4012ab1f653f61f71273dde9bdb21c1d09a03e68283aed0870a287316935b8
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:00 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088054

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.916577onnx/unsafe0.088054onnx/nsfw0.048063onnx/nsfl0.039991
Enrichment records (1)
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_Microwave Cat_ is a pixel-art animation showing a yellow figure interacting with a microwave, where the cat inside changes from normal to red and back.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:05 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,334 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,070, response 749

Review tags

  • interacting (action, 0.80)
  • opening microwave door (action, 0.80)
  • returning to normal color (action, 0.80)
  • turning red (action, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • gray bar (object, 0.80)
  • microwave (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • brown cat (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • interacting
  • opening microwave door
  • turning red
  • returning to normal color

Animation

  • sequential color change of cat from brown to red and back
  • microwave door opening/closing

Animation Summary

The animation shows a yellow figure interacting with a microwave, where the cat inside changes from brown to bright red and back while the microwave door opens and closes.

Colors

  • dark blue
  • yellow
  • brown
  • green
  • red
  • gray

Composition

  • in 4
  • text below each frame

Dense Caption

The image displays a grid of 14 frames depicting an animated sequence. A small yellow figure stands next to a brown microwave on a dark blue background. The microwave door is open in some frames, revealing a brown cat with a curved tail. In later frames, the cat inside turns bright red while still visible through the microwave door. Green 'HI' text appears above the microwave in several frames. Each frame has '_Microwave Cat_' text below it on a gray bar. The animation shows sequential changes: initial interaction (figure holding something), microwave door opening, cat's color shifting to red, and returning to normal brown.

Description

_Microwave Cat_ is a pixel-art animation showing a yellow figure interacting with a microwave, where the cat inside changes from normal to red and back.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • microwave cat pixel art
  • yellow figure microwave interaction
  • cat turns red in microwave
  • _Microwave Cat_ text

Objects

  • microwave
  • gray bar

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: 14 frames in 4 rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixel-art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • yellow figure
  • brown cat

Visible Text

  • _Microwave Cat_
  • HI

Visually Supported Entities

  • _Microwave Cat_

Wordwall

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  • brown microwave
  • dark blue background
  • _Microwave Cat_ text
  • green 'HI' text
  • brown cat with curved tail
  • cat turns bright red
  • microwave door open
  • pixel-art style
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Full source records (1)

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs (wayback-ballericons-icon-path-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration from the portal's primary /icon/ namespace
Category
icon
Alt
25239
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:21 UTC
Rights
mixed portal and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large humor, attitude, college, celebrity, video-game, holiday, and sports buddy-icon portal