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A pixelated image of a swimmer in a pool with blue water, wearing a white cap and dark goggles, with a yellow banner reading SWIMMING above and a yellow equal sign below.

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A pixelated image of a swimmer in a pool with blue water, wearing a white cap and dark goggles, with a yellow banner reading SWIMMING above and a yellow equal sign below.

A pixelated image of a swimmer in a pool with blue water, wearing a white cap and dark goggles, with a yellow banner reading SWIMMING above and a yellow equal sign below. Animated…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • swimmer centered
  • text banners top and right
  • equal sign below

Dense Caption

The image shows a swimmer in a pool with blue water, wearing a white swim cap and dark goggles, arms extended forward in a swimming stroke. The background is blue water with white splashes. A yellow banner with blue text reading SWIMMING spans the top. Below the swimmer, a yellow square contains a blue equal sign. To the right, a yellow rectangle with blue text reads LIFE. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution style typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

A pixelated image of a swimmer in a pool with blue water, wearing a white cap and dark goggles, with a yellow banner reading SWIMMING above and a yellow equal sign below.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200807031359452052279232

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • swimmer pool blue water
  • white cap dark goggles
  • SWIMMING banner equal sign
  • LIFE text yellow banner

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; source hints indicate animated but pixels show static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • SWIMMING
  • LIFE

Wordwall

  • swimmer
  • pool
  • blue water
  • white cap
  • dark goggles
  • SWIMMING text
  • equal sign
  • LIFE text
  • yellow banner
  • pixelated
  • blue text
  • white splashes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807031359452052279232
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/43/43c79b165a29913598bf7d972c4e32b6d25e2ee501fe9590c4e65acef5d5b51d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
43c79b165a299135
SHA-256
43c79b165a29913598bf7d972c4e32b6d25e2ee501fe9590c4e65acef5d5b51d
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 11:53 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.004663

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:54 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A pixelated image of a swimmer in a pool with blue water, wearing a white cap and dark goggles, with a yellow banner reading SWIMMING above and a yellow equal sign below.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 10:22 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,093 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 855

Review tags

  • swimming (action, 0.80)
  • active (mood, 0.80)
  • banner (object, 0.80)
  • cap (object, 0.80)
  • equal sign (object, 0.80)
  • goggles (object, 0.80)
  • pool (object, 0.80)
  • water (object, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • swimmer (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • swimming

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • yellow
  • dark

Composition

  • swimmer centered
  • text banners top and right
  • equal sign below

Dense Caption

The image shows a swimmer in a pool with blue water, wearing a white swim cap and dark goggles, arms extended forward in a swimming stroke. The background is blue water with white splashes. A yellow banner with blue text reading SWIMMING spans the top. Below the swimmer, a yellow square contains a blue equal sign. To the right, a yellow rectangle with blue text reads LIFE. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution style typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

A pixelated image of a swimmer in a pool with blue water, wearing a white cap and dark goggles, with a yellow banner reading SWIMMING above and a yellow equal sign below.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200807031359452052279232

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • active
  • energetic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • swimmer pool blue water
  • white cap dark goggles
  • SWIMMING banner equal sign
  • LIFE text yellow banner

Objects

  • pool
  • water
  • goggles
  • cap
  • banner
  • equal sign

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; source hints indicate animated but pixels show static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital graphics

Subjects

  • swimmer

Visible Text

  • SWIMMING
  • LIFE

Wordwall

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  • pool
  • blue water
  • white cap
  • dark goggles
  • SWIMMING text
  • equal sign
  • LIFE text
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  • blue text
  • white splashes
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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
200807031359452052279232
Archive entry
200807031359452052279232.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#200807031359452052279232.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807031359452052279232.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016