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Blue background with pixelated cartoon characters and text fragments reading 'were swimming', 'and swimming', 'together! yeah'.

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Blue background with pixelated cartoon characters and text fragments reading 'were swimming', 'and swimming', 'together! yeah'.

Blue background with pixelated cartoon characters and text fragments reading 'were swimming', 'and swimming', 'together! yeah'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left side characters
  • right side text
  • blue background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image with blue background. Left side shows two cartoon characters: a blue fish with large white eyes and black pupils, and an orange fish with wide eyes and open mouth. Blue fish holds yellow curved object. Text fragments in blue pixelated font: 'were swimming' top right, 'and swimming' bottom left, 'together! yeah' bottom right. Characters have exaggerated expressions. Image has low-resolution, blocky rendering typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Blue background with pixelated cartoon characters and text fragments reading 'were swimming', 'and swimming', 'together! yeah'.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200910021845001925890770

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue fish orange fish swimming
  • were swimming and swimming together yeah
  • pixelated cartoon fish text
  • blue background yellow object
  • exaggerated expressions low-resolution
  • blue fish holding yellow object
  • text fragments blue background
  • cartoon fish blue background

Style

  • cartoon

Visible Text

  • were swimming
  • and swimming
  • together! yeah

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • two cartoon fish
  • blue fish with white eyes
  • orange fish with open mouth
  • yellow curved object
  • text fragments
  • were swimming
  • and swimming
  • together! yeah
  • exaggerated expressions
  • low-resolution
  • blocky rendering
  • pixelated font
  • blue pixelated text
  • cartoon characters
  • wide eyes
  • open mouth
  • yellow object
  • blue fish
  • orange fish

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200910021845001925890770
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 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 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
3dcf4cdfa68f4421
SHA-256
3dcf4cdfa68f44213da014e5ada07c21a1d127603db979b346d51ed27c4b0575
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:48 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.123164

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Blue background with pixelated cartoon characters and text fragments reading 'were swimming', 'and swimming', 'together! yeah'.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 18:36 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,038 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 800

Review tags

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  • swimming (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • exaggerated (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
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  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • blue fish (subject, 0.80)
  • orange fish (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • swimming
  • holding

Colors

  • blue
  • orange
  • yellow
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • left side characters
  • right side text
  • blue background

Dense Caption

Pixelated image with blue background. Left side shows two cartoon characters: a blue fish with large white eyes and black pupils, and an orange fish with wide eyes and open mouth. Blue fish holds yellow curved object. Text fragments in blue pixelated font: 'were swimming' top right, 'and swimming' bottom left, 'together! yeah' bottom right. Characters have exaggerated expressions. Image has low-resolution, blocky rendering typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Blue background with pixelated cartoon characters and text fragments reading 'were swimming', 'and swimming', 'together! yeah'.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200910021845001925890770

Mood

  • playful
  • exaggerated

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  • were swimming and swimming together yeah
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Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoon
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • blue fish
  • orange fish

Visible Text

  • were swimming
  • and swimming
  • together! yeah

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  • text fragments
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  • and swimming
  • together! yeah
  • exaggerated expressions
  • low-resolution
  • blocky rendering
  • pixelated font
  • blue pixelated text
  • cartoon characters
  • wide eyes
  • open mouth
  • yellow object
  • blue fish
  • orange 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
200910021845001925890770
Archive entry
200910021845001925890770.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#200910021845001925890770.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200910021845001925890770.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016