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Pixelated teal background with light blue fish swimming, overlaid text reading "Don't follow the crowd" in blue pixel font.

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Pixelated teal background with light blue fish swimming, overlaid text reading "Don't follow the crowd" in blue pixel font.

Pixelated teal background with light blue fish swimming, overlaid text reading "Don't follow the crowd" in blue pixel font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • repeating fish pattern
  • text overlay top-right and bottom-left
  • partial gray rectangle lower right

Dense Caption

Teal background filled with repeating light blue fish icons featuring white eyes. Blue pixelated text reads "Don't follow" positioned top-right and "the crowd" bottom-left. Fish swim left-to-right across frame; no visible animation changes between observations. Gray rectangular area occupies lower right corner, partially obscuring fish. Text uses blocky 8-bit style with blue outline on teal.

Description

  • Pixelated teal background with light blue fish swimming, overlaid text reading "Don't follow the crowd" in blue pixel font.

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

  • teal fish crowd text
  • pixelated don't follow the crowd
  • light blue fish gray rectangle
  • 8-bit pixel font teal background

Objects

  • rectangle

Visible Text

  • Don't follow
  • the crowd

Visually Supported Entities

  • text
  • fish

Wordwall

  • teal background
  • light blue fish
  • white eyes
  • blue pixel text
  • "Don't follow"
  • "the crowd"
  • gray rectangle
  • left-to-right swimming

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070909130505392755360
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2a/2a7abf6ded737a488e1148aaad2a6befb9012a57c4d3213f387599f1108433ec.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC
Archive ID
2a7abf6ded737a48
SHA-256
2a7abf6ded737a488e1148aaad2a6befb9012a57c4d3213f387599f1108433ec
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:28 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.069734

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated teal background with light blue fish swimming, overlaid text reading "Don't follow the crowd" in blue pixel font.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 00:43 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,041 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 597

Review tags

  • swimming (action, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • quirky (mood, 0.80)
  • rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • fish (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • swimming

Colors

  • teal
  • light blue
  • white
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • repeating fish pattern
  • text overlay top-right and bottom-left
  • partial gray rectangle lower right

Dense Caption

Teal background filled with repeating light blue fish icons featuring white eyes. Blue pixelated text reads "Don't follow" positioned top-right and "the crowd" bottom-left. Fish swim left-to-right across frame; no visible animation changes between observations. Gray rectangular area occupies lower right corner, partially obscuring fish. Text uses blocky 8-bit style with blue outline on teal.

Description

  • Pixelated teal background with light blue fish swimming, overlaid text reading "Don't follow the crowd" in blue pixel font.

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

  • playful
  • quirky

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • teal fish crowd text
  • pixelated don't follow the crowd
  • light blue fish gray rectangle
  • 8-bit pixel font teal background

Objects

  • fish
  • text
  • rectangle

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • fish
  • text

Visible Text

  • Don't follow
  • the crowd

Visually Supported Entities

  • text
  • fish

Wordwall

  • teal background
  • light blue fish
  • white eyes
  • blue pixel text
  • "Don't follow"
  • "the crowd"
  • gray rectangle
  • left-to-right swimming
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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
20070909130505392755360
Archive entry
20070909130505392755360.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 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#20070909130505392755360.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070909130505392755360.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016