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Pixelated cartoon fish characters with wide eyes and open mouths on a blue background, accompanied by pixelated text phrases.

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Pixelated cartoon fish characters with wide eyes and open mouths on a blue background, accompanied by pixelated text phrases.

Pixelated cartoon fish characters with wide eyes and open mouths on a blue background, accompanied by pixelated text phrases. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no animation observed

Composition

  • four quadrants

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a blue fish with large white eyes and a black mouth holding an orange fish with white eyes and a black mouth; both fish have yellow fins and are set against a dark blue background. Top-right quadrant contains light blue pixelated text 'oh my god!' on a solid blue background. Bottom-left quadrant contains light blue pixelated text 'its a shark!' on a solid blue background. Bottom-right quadrant is a solid gray color. All text uses a blocky, retro video game font. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon fish characters with wide eyes and open mouths on a blue background, accompanied by pixelated text phrases.

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
  • 201002221600101227999099
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue fish orange fish yellow fins
  • oh my god its a shark
  • pixelated cartoon fish text
  • four quadrant pixel art
  • retro video game font text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed in this static image

Visible Text

  • oh my god!
  • its a shark!

Wordwall

  • blue fish
  • orange fish
  • yellow fins
  • dark blue background
  • light blue text
  • solid blue background
  • solid gray background
  • retro video game font
  • pixelated style
  • four quadrants

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201002221600101227999099
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8b/8b0e9cbd3ed95802bc91db3b63d2a6b42f76a8978ccbbf53aeed8057ebdee526.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC
Archive ID
8b0e9cbd3ed95802
SHA-256
8b0e9cbd3ed95802bc91db3b63d2a6b42f76a8978ccbbf53aeed8057ebdee526
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:26 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078980

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated cartoon fish characters with wide eyes and open mouths on a blue background, accompanied by pixelated text phrases.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 17:24 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,136 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 670

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • alarmed (mood, 0.80)
  • surprised (mood, 0.80)
  • yellow fins (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro video game (style, 0.80)
  • blue fish (subject, 0.80)
  • orange fish (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no animation observed

Colors

  • blue
  • orange
  • yellow
  • dark blue
  • light blue
  • gray

Composition

  • four quadrants

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a blue fish with large white eyes and a black mouth holding an orange fish with white eyes and a black mouth; both fish have yellow fins and are set against a dark blue background. Top-right quadrant contains light blue pixelated text 'oh my god!' on a solid blue background. Bottom-left quadrant contains light blue pixelated text 'its a shark!' on a solid blue background. Bottom-right quadrant is a solid gray color. All text uses a blocky, retro video game font. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon fish characters with wide eyes and open mouths on a blue background, accompanied by pixelated text phrases.

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
  • 201002221600101227999099
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • surprised
  • alarmed

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue fish orange fish yellow fins
  • oh my god its a shark
  • pixelated cartoon fish text
  • four quadrant pixel art
  • retro video game font text

Objects

  • yellow fins

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed in this static image

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro video game

Subjects

  • blue fish
  • orange fish

Visible Text

  • oh my god!
  • its a shark!

Wordwall

  • blue fish
  • orange fish
  • yellow fins
  • dark blue background
  • light blue text
  • solid blue background
  • solid gray background
  • retro video game font
  • pixelated style
  • four quadrants
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:15 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
201002221600101227999099
Archive entry
201002221600101227999099.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 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#201002221600101227999099.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201002221600101227999099.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016