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A pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on a blue background, with yellow text on a pink background reading "2 bff's trying to survive we are different like a chick and a cat 2 bffs".

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A pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on a blue background, with yellow text on a pink background reading "2 bff's trying to survive we are different like a chick and a cat 2 bffs".

A pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on a blue background, with yellow text on a pink background reading "2 bff's trying to survive we are different like a chick a…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split into two sections
  • left section with blue background
  • right section with pink background
  • text on right section

Dense Caption

The image is split into two sections: a left section with a blue background showing a brown cat and yellow duckling in close proximity, and a right section with a bright pink background. The cat has a light brown coat with darker brown stripes, and the duckling is yellow with a white underbelly. Both animals are positioned on the left side of the blue background. The right section contains yellow pixelated text in a retro font. The text reads "2 bff's trying to survive" at the top, "we are different like a chick" at the bottom left, and "and a cat 2 bffs" at the bottom right. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

A pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on a blue background, with yellow text on a pink background reading "2 bff's trying to survive we are different like a chick and a cat 2 bffs".

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803011345111882812288

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown cat yellow duckling
  • blue background pink background
  • 2 bff's trying to survive
  • we are different like a chick
  • and a cat 2 bffs
  • pixelated retro font
  • split composition
  • low-resolution pixelated style

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Subjects

  • cat

Visible Text

  • 2 bff's trying to survive
  • we are different like a chick
  • and a cat 2 bffs

Wordwall

  • brown cat
  • yellow duckling
  • blue background
  • pink background
  • yellow pixelated text
  • 2 bff's trying to survive
  • we are different like a chick
  • and a cat 2 bffs
  • retro font
  • low-resolution
  • pixelated style
  • close proximity
  • light brown coat
  • darker brown stripes
  • yellow underbelly
  • white underbelly
  • split composition
  • bright pink
  • text on pink

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803011345111882812288
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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/ef/efcae9d663c4d4a2015f9ab8916249cc3b9ec8429a843e100b4e02d18121ec5a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
efcae9d663c4d4a2
SHA-256
efcae9d663c4d4a2015f9ab8916249cc3b9ec8429a843e100b4e02d18121ec5a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:02 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089927

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.925866onnx/unsafe0.089927onnx/nsfw0.056528onnx/nsfl0.033399
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on a blue background, with yellow text on a pink background reading "2 bff's trying to survive we are different like a chick and a cat 2 bffs".

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 14:08 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,247 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 876

Review tags

  • close proximity (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • cat (subject, 0.80)
  • duckling (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • close proximity

Colors

  • brown
  • yellow
  • blue
  • pink

Composition

  • split into two sections
  • left section with blue background
  • right section with pink background
  • text on right section

Dense Caption

The image is split into two sections: a left section with a blue background showing a brown cat and yellow duckling in close proximity, and a right section with a bright pink background. The cat has a light brown coat with darker brown stripes, and the duckling is yellow with a white underbelly. Both animals are positioned on the left side of the blue background. The right section contains yellow pixelated text in a retro font. The text reads "2 bff's trying to survive" at the top, "we are different like a chick" at the bottom left, and "and a cat 2 bffs" at the bottom right. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

A pixelated image of a brown cat and yellow duckling on a blue background, with yellow text on a pink background reading "2 bff's trying to survive we are different like a chick and a cat 2 bffs".

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200803011345111882812288

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown cat yellow duckling
  • blue background pink background
  • 2 bff's trying to survive
  • we are different like a chick
  • and a cat 2 bffs
  • pixelated retro font
  • split composition
  • low-resolution pixelated style

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro

Subjects

  • cat
  • duckling

Visible Text

  • 2 bff's trying to survive
  • we are different like a chick
  • and a cat 2 bffs

Wordwall

  • brown cat
  • yellow duckling
  • blue background
  • pink background
  • yellow pixelated text
  • 2 bff's trying to survive
  • we are different like a chick
  • and a cat 2 bffs
  • retro font
  • low-resolution
  • pixelated style
  • close proximity
  • light brown coat
  • darker brown stripes
  • yellow underbelly
  • white underbelly
  • split composition
  • bright pink
  • text on pink
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:32 UTC
Run
56
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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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200803011345111882812288
Archive entry
200803011345111882812288.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#200803011345111882812288.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803011345111882812288.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016