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Pixelated image of a swimmer in water with text 'Swimming is my LIFE' on the right side.

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Pixelated image of a swimmer in water with text 'Swimming is my LIFE' on the right side.

Pixelated image of a swimmer in water with text 'Swimming is my LIFE' on the right side. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, L…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split vertical composition
  • text on right
  • swimmer on left

Dense Caption

Left half shows pixelated figure swimming forward in blue water, wearing white cap and dark goggles; arms extended forward, hair visible. Right half has solid light blue background with pink blocky text: 'Swimming', then 'is', then 'my', then 'LIFE' stacked vertically. Text uses 8-bit style font. Water shows white splash pixels around swimmer's body.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a swimmer in water with text 'Swimming is my LIFE' on the right side.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • swimming is my life icon
  • pixelated swimmer text icon
  • 8-bit swimming buddy icon
  • blue water pink text icon

Visible Text

  • Swimming is my LIFE

Visually Supported Entities

  • swimmer

Wordwall

  • swimmer
  • water
  • white cap
  • goggles
  • splash
  • light blue background
  • pink text
  • blocky font
  • vertical text layout
  • pixelated image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080811063511337012861
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
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/85/85139115abdf2f70db5a523baa3426c986327c9b0e12201d69b1542804bdc6d7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 UTC
Archive ID
85139115abdf2f70
SHA-256
85139115abdf2f70db5a523baa3426c986327c9b0e12201d69b1542804bdc6d7
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 06:28 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.014666

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:33 UTC
Run
1119
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated image of a swimmer in water with text 'Swimming is my LIFE' on the right side.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 17:54 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,026 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 593

Review tags

  • swimming (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • active (mood, 0.80)
  • energetic (mood, 0.80)
  • goggles (object, 0.80)
  • splash (object, 0.80)
  • water (object, 0.80)
  • white cap (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • swimmer (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • swimming

Colors

  • blue
  • light blue
  • white
  • pink
  • brown
  • black

Composition

  • split vertical composition
  • text on right
  • swimmer on left

Dense Caption

Left half shows pixelated figure swimming forward in blue water, wearing white cap and dark goggles; arms extended forward, hair visible. Right half has solid light blue background with pink blocky text: 'Swimming', then 'is', then 'my', then 'LIFE' stacked vertically. Text uses 8-bit style font. Water shows white splash pixels around swimmer's body.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a swimmer in water with text 'Swimming is my LIFE' on the right side.

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

Mood

  • active
  • energetic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • swimming is my life icon
  • pixelated swimmer text icon
  • 8-bit swimming buddy icon
  • blue water pink text icon

Objects

  • water
  • white cap
  • goggles
  • splash

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • swimmer

Visible Text

  • Swimming is my LIFE

Visually Supported Entities

  • swimmer

Wordwall

  • swimmer
  • water
  • white cap
  • goggles
  • splash
  • light blue background
  • pink text
  • blocky font
  • vertical text layout
  • pixelated image
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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
20080811063511337012861
Archive entry
20080811063511337012861.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#20080811063511337012861.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080811063511337012861.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016