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Pixelated image of a swimmer in water with blue background and motivational text.

Pixelated image of a swimmer in water with blue background and motivational text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-200…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left: swimmer in water, right: solid cyan background with text

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated swimmer wearing white cap and dark goggles, mid-stroke in blue water with white splashes. The right side has solid cyan background with purple blocky text: 'DONT GIVE UP!' at top, 'CAUSE GIVING UP IS FOR LOSERS' on left bottom, 'BUT WERE WINNERS!!!' on right bottom. Text uses 8-bit style font. Swimmer's skin tone is light brown. Water has blue and white pixelated texture.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a swimmer in water with blue background and motivational text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • swimmer motivational text cyan background
  • DONT GIVE UP! CAUSE GIVING UP IS FOR LOSERS BUT WERE WINNERS!!!
  • 8-bit pixel art swimmer water splashes

Visible Text

  • DONT GIVE UP!
  • CAUSE GIVING UP IS FOR LOSERS
  • BUT WERE WINNERS!!!

Wordwall

  • swimmer
  • white cap
  • dark goggles
  • blue water
  • white splashes
  • cyan background
  • purple text
  • DONT GIVE UP!
  • CAUSE GIVING UP IS FOR LOSERS
  • BUT WERE WINNERS!!!

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808111933021796310281
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 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 15:36 UTC
Archive ID
347ff52b39d53f78
SHA-256
347ff52b39d53f78b8ca58a324eeac2015ddc34ad1d4dd1ba5949c8d72843caa
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:38 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.128914

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a swimmer in water with blue background and motivational text.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 18:11 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,339 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 613

Review tags

  • swimming (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • energetic (mood, 0.80)
  • motivational (mood, 0.80)
  • splashes (object, 0.80)
  • water (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • swimmer (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • swimming

Colors

  • cyan
  • blue
  • white
  • purple
  • light brown

Composition

  • left: swimmer in water, right: solid cyan background with text

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated swimmer wearing white cap and dark goggles, mid-stroke in blue water with white splashes. The right side has solid cyan background with purple blocky text: 'DONT GIVE UP!' at top, 'CAUSE GIVING UP IS FOR LOSERS' on left bottom, 'BUT WERE WINNERS!!!' on right bottom. Text uses 8-bit style font. Swimmer's skin tone is light brown. Water has blue and white pixelated texture.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a swimmer in water with blue background and motivational text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

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

Mood

  • motivational
  • energetic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • swimmer motivational text cyan background
  • DONT GIVE UP! CAUSE GIVING UP IS FOR LOSERS BUT WERE WINNERS!!!
  • 8-bit pixel art swimmer water splashes

Objects

  • water
  • splashes

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • swimmer

Visible Text

  • DONT GIVE UP!
  • CAUSE GIVING UP IS FOR LOSERS
  • BUT WERE WINNERS!!!

Wordwall

  • swimmer
  • white cap
  • dark goggles
  • blue water
  • white splashes
  • cyan background
  • purple text
  • DONT GIVE UP!
  • CAUSE GIVING UP IS FOR LOSERS
  • BUT WERE WINNERS!!!
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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
200808111933021796310281
Archive entry
200808111933021796310281.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 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#200808111933021796310281.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808111933021796310281.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016