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A pixelated swimmer in a pool with water splashing, wearing white cap and dark goggles on yellow background with red text.

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A pixelated swimmer in a pool with water splashing, wearing white cap and dark goggles on yellow background with red text.

A pixelated swimmer in a pool with water splashing, wearing white cap and dark goggles on yellow background with red text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant layout
  • swimmer on left
  • text blocks on right and bottom-left
  • gray area bottom-right

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a person swimming underwater or at surface level in blue water with white splash effects. The swimmer wears a white swimming cap and dark-tinted goggles over eyes. Left side shows the swimmer; right side has bright yellow background divided into two sections: top-right contains red pixelated text "i swim because im to hot" and bottom-left contains red pixelated text "for a sport that requires clothes". The image is split into four quadrants with gray area on bottom-right.

Description

  • A pixelated swimmer in a pool with water splashing, wearing white cap and dark goggles on yellow background with red text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080209122838423929340
  • franksicons
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • swimmer water splash white cap goggles humor text
  • i swim because im to hot for a sport that requires clothes
  • pixelated swimmer yellow background red text
  • split swimmer text

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static image with no visible animation frames or motion changes
  • quarantined style: split-panel
  • quarantined retrieval: split panel swimmer text

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • i swim because im to hot
  • for a sport that requires clothes

Visually Supported Entities

  • swimmer

Wordwall

  • swimmer
  • water splash
  • white cap
  • dark goggles
  • blue water
  • yellow background
  • red text
  • i swim because im to hot
  • for a sport that requires clothes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080209122838423929340
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2f/2f634d9eb8c79190dfa85b67b5734fa8f5f80d446e5b32d31decfae8569fc4ae.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC
Archive ID
2f634d9eb8c79190
SHA-256
2f634d9eb8c79190dfa85b67b5734fa8f5f80d446e5b32d31decfae8569fc4ae
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:33 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096660

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated swimmer in a pool with water splashing, wearing white cap and dark goggles on yellow background with red text.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 19:08 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,711 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 788

Review tags

  • swimming (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • ironic (mood, 0.80)
  • cap (object, 0.80)
  • goggles (object, 0.80)
  • splash (object, 0.80)
  • water (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • split (style, 0.80)
  • text based humor (style, 0.80)
  • swimmer (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • swimming

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • yellow
  • red
  • gray
  • dark-tinted

Composition

  • four-quadrant layout
  • swimmer on left
  • text blocks on right and bottom-left
  • gray area bottom-right

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a person swimming underwater or at surface level in blue water with white splash effects. The swimmer wears a white swimming cap and dark-tinted goggles over eyes. Left side shows the swimmer; right side has bright yellow background divided into two sections: top-right contains red pixelated text "i swim because im to hot" and bottom-left contains red pixelated text "for a sport that requires clothes". The image is split into four quadrants with gray area on bottom-right.

Description

  • A pixelated swimmer in a pool with water splashing, wearing white cap and dark goggles on yellow background with red text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080209122838423929340
  • franksicons
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • humorous
  • ironic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • swimmer water splash white cap goggles humor text
  • i swim because im to hot for a sport that requires clothes
  • pixelated swimmer yellow background red text
  • split swimmer text

Objects

  • water
  • splash
  • cap
  • goggles

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static image with no visible animation frames or motion changes
  • quarantined style: split-panel
  • quarantined retrieval: split panel swimmer text

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based humor
  • split

Subjects

  • swimmer

Visible Text

  • i swim because im to hot
  • for a sport that requires clothes

Visually Supported Entities

  • swimmer

Wordwall

  • swimmer
  • water splash
  • white cap
  • dark goggles
  • blue water
  • yellow background
  • red text
  • i swim because im to hot
  • for a sport that requires clothes
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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
20080209122838423929340
Archive entry
20080209122838423929340.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 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#20080209122838423929340.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080209122838423929340.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016