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Pixelated cartoon fish characters with wide eyes and open mouths against a blue background, accompanied by pixelated text.

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Pixelated cartoon fish characters with wide eyes and open mouths against a blue background, accompanied by pixelated text.

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two fish characters
  • text segments top-right and bottom-left/bottom-right
  • solid blue background

Dense Caption

Two cartoon fish characters rendered in low-resolution pixel art: a blue fish with large white eyes and a black mouth, and an orange fish with a yellow stripe and wide eyes, both with open mouths. The blue fish is positioned behind the orange fish, holding a yellow crescent-shaped object. The background is a solid blue. Pixelated text appears in four segments: 'Yes, I'm' in the top-right, 'a natural' in the bottom-left, and 'Blue.' in the bottom-right. All text uses a light blue, pixelated font on a white background. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon fish characters with wide eyes and open mouths against a blue background, accompanied by pixelated text.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue fish orange fish text
  • pixelated cartoon fish
  • yellow crescent object
  • Yes I'm natural Blue
  • retro digital text
  • two fish surprised
  • blue background pixel art
  • open mouth cartoon fish

Visible Text

  • Yes, I'm
  • a natural
  • Blue.

Wordwall

  • two cartoon fish
  • blue background
  • yellow crescent object
  • pixelated text
  • wide eyes
  • open mouths
  • orange fish
  • blue fish
  • yellow stripe
  • light blue font
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • solid blue background
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • four text segments
  • white background
  • crescent object
  • blue fish behind orange fish

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811261523081510739117
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 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 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
2b6403c3614c90ed
SHA-256
2b6403c3614c90edae416f4987fc35e7df1c051a4d3ff8672dabf20c7a9e8c91
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:29 UTC
Run
107
Input
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated cartoon fish characters with wide eyes and open mouths against a blue background, accompanied by pixelated text.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 10:45 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,873 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 788

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • surprised (mood, 0.80)
  • yellow crescent object (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • blue fish (subject, 0.80)
  • orange fish (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • looking

Colors

  • blue
  • orange
  • yellow
  • white
  • light blue

Composition

  • two fish characters
  • text segments top-right and bottom-left/bottom-right
  • solid blue background

Dense Caption

Two cartoon fish characters rendered in low-resolution pixel art: a blue fish with large white eyes and a black mouth, and an orange fish with a yellow stripe and wide eyes, both with open mouths. The blue fish is positioned behind the orange fish, holding a yellow crescent-shaped object. The background is a solid blue. Pixelated text appears in four segments: 'Yes, I'm' in the top-right, 'a natural' in the bottom-left, and 'Blue.' in the bottom-right. All text uses a light blue, pixelated font on a white background. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon fish characters with wide eyes and open mouths against a blue background, accompanied by pixelated text.

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • surprised
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • pixelated cartoon fish
  • yellow crescent object
  • Yes I'm natural Blue
  • retro digital text
  • two fish surprised
  • blue background pixel art
  • open mouth cartoon fish

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  • yellow crescent object

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • blue fish
  • orange fish

Visible Text

  • Yes, I'm
  • a natural
  • Blue.

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  • blue background
  • yellow crescent object
  • pixelated text
  • wide eyes
  • open mouths
  • orange fish
  • blue fish
  • yellow stripe
  • light blue font
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • solid blue background
  • low-resolution pixel art
  • four text segments
  • white background
  • crescent object
  • blue fish behind orange fish
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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
200811261523081510739117
Archive entry
200811261523081510739117.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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

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