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Pixelated image of a person swimming in water with white foam, wearing a white cap and dark goggles.

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Pixelated image of a person swimming in water with white foam, wearing a white cap and dark goggles.

Pixelated image of a person swimming in water with white foam, wearing a white cap and dark goggles. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split vertical composition: left image, right text block

Dense Caption

The left side shows a pixelated figure in mid-swim with arms extended forward, surrounded by light blue water and white splashes. The figure wears a white swim cap and dark-tinted goggles over the eyes. On the right side of the image is solid bright blue background with red pixelated text reading "if swimming was easy they'd call it FOOTBALL" in five lines. Text uses uppercase letters for all words except 'they'd'.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person swimming in water with white foam, wearing a white cap and dark goggles.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • swimming person with goggles
  • text if swimming was easy they'd call it FOOTBALL
  • pixelated swimmer blue background red text
  • split image water and text

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • if swimming was easy they'd call it FOOTBALL

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • swimming
  • water splashes
  • white swim cap
  • dark goggles
  • red text on blue
  • pixelated image
  • text: if swimming was easy they'd call it FOOTBALL

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090514161941516151343
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/74/74a4728170c94b079ab9605f920ab24ea239bd1129518d6f6ffdd26d02767207.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC
Archive ID
74a4728170c94b07
SHA-256
74a4728170c94b079ab9605f920ab24ea239bd1129518d6f6ffdd26d02767207
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:59 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.111823

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated image of a person swimming in water with white foam, wearing a white cap and dark goggles.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 09:45 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,760 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 591

Review tags

  • swimming (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • goggles (object, 0.80)
  • splashes (object, 0.80)
  • swim cap (object, 0.80)
  • water (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • swimming

Colors

  • blue
  • white
  • red
  • brown
  • black

Composition

  • split vertical composition: left image, right text block

Dense Caption

The left side shows a pixelated figure in mid-swim with arms extended forward, surrounded by light blue water and white splashes. The figure wears a white swim cap and dark-tinted goggles over the eyes. On the right side of the image is solid bright blue background with red pixelated text reading "if swimming was easy they'd call it FOOTBALL" in five lines. Text uses uppercase letters for all words except 'they'd'.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person swimming in water with white foam, wearing a white cap and dark goggles.

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

Mood

  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • swimming person with goggles
  • text if swimming was easy they'd call it FOOTBALL
  • pixelated swimmer blue background red text
  • split image water and text

Objects

  • water
  • splashes
  • swim cap
  • goggles

Style

  • pixelated
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • if swimming was easy they'd call it FOOTBALL

Visually Supported Entities

  • person

Wordwall

  • swimming
  • water splashes
  • white swim cap
  • dark goggles
  • red text on blue
  • pixelated image
  • text: if swimming was easy they'd call it FOOTBALL
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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
20090514161941516151343
Archive entry
20090514161941516151343.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 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#20090514161941516151343.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090514161941516151343.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016