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Pixelated cartoon characters with wide eyes and open mouths on a blue background, accompanied by green text reading "Just keep swimming" and "What do we do? we swim".

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Pixelated cartoon characters with wide eyes and open mouths on a blue background, accompanied by green text reading "Just keep swimming" and "What do we do? we swim".

Pixelated cartoon characters with wide eyes and open mouths on a blue background, accompanied by green text reading "Just keep swimming" and "What do we do? we swim". Animated 48×…

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Animation Summary

  • no animation observed; static image

Composition

  • left-aligned characters
  • text blocks on right and bottom

Dense Caption

The image shows two cartoon fish characters: a blue fish with large white eyes and a yellow fin, and an orange fish with wide eyes and an open mouth, both appearing distressed. The background is dark blue. Green pixelated text appears in three sections: top-right "Just keep swimming", bottom-left "Just keep swimming", and bottom-right "Just keep swimming What do we do? we swim". The style is low-resolution pixel art with visible dithering. The characters are positioned on the left side of the frame, with the text occupying the right and bottom areas. The overall composition is split between the character illustration and the text blocks.

Description

Pixelated cartoon characters with wide eyes and open mouths on a blue background, accompanied by green text reading "Just keep swimming" and "What do we do? we swim".

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080628044105369535695
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon fish blue background green text
  • distressed cartoon fish text "Just keep swimming"
  • low-resolution pixel art fish characters
  • blue fish orange fish yellow fin text blocks
  • pixel art cartoon fish anxious mood

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image

Style

  • dithering

Visible Text

  • Just keep swimming
  • Just keep swimming What do we do? we swim

Wordwall

  • cartoon fish
  • blue background
  • green pixelated text
  • distressed expressions
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • dithering
  • text blocks
  • character illustration
  • dark blue background
  • wide eyes
  • open mouths
  • yellow fin
  • orange fish
  • blue fish

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080628044105369535695
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
2262bb79d32c9346
SHA-256
2262bb79d32c9346bcfed5eaaeaadc04b5c4bbc059625f3020b4296b68859ca4
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:47 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094920

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cartoon characters with wide eyes and open mouths on a blue background, accompanied by green text reading "Just keep swimming" and "What do we do? we swim".

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 09:11 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,152 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 768

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • anxious (mood, 0.80)
  • urgent (mood, 0.80)
  • yellow fin (object, 0.80)
  • dithering (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • blue fish (subject, 0.80)
  • orange fish (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no animation observed; static image

Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • orange
  • yellow
  • dark blue

Composition

  • left-aligned characters
  • text blocks on right and bottom

Dense Caption

The image shows two cartoon fish characters: a blue fish with large white eyes and a yellow fin, and an orange fish with wide eyes and an open mouth, both appearing distressed. The background is dark blue. Green pixelated text appears in three sections: top-right "Just keep swimming", bottom-left "Just keep swimming", and bottom-right "Just keep swimming What do we do? we swim". The style is low-resolution pixel art with visible dithering. The characters are positioned on the left side of the frame, with the text occupying the right and bottom areas. The overall composition is split between the character illustration and the text blocks.

Description

Pixelated cartoon characters with wide eyes and open mouths on a blue background, accompanied by green text reading "Just keep swimming" and "What do we do? we swim".

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080628044105369535695
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • anxious
  • urgent

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon fish blue background green text
  • distressed cartoon fish text "Just keep swimming"
  • low-resolution pixel art fish characters
  • blue fish orange fish yellow fin text blocks
  • pixel art cartoon fish anxious mood

Objects

  • yellow fin

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected; static image

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithering

Subjects

  • blue fish
  • orange fish

Visible Text

  • Just keep swimming
  • Just keep swimming What do we do? we swim

Wordwall

  • cartoon fish
  • blue background
  • green pixelated text
  • distressed expressions
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • dithering
  • text blocks
  • character illustration
  • dark blue background
  • wide eyes
  • open mouths
  • yellow fin
  • orange fish
  • blue fish
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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
20080628044105369535695
Archive entry
20080628044105369535695.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#20080628044105369535695.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080628044105369535695.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016