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Pixelated dolphin leaps from blue water against a gradient sky, with cyan background text reading 'shimmer and shine' in blocky font.

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Pixelated dolphin leaps from blue water against a gradient sky, with cyan background text reading 'shimmer and shine' in blocky font.

Pixelated dolphin leaps from blue water against a gradient sky, with cyan background text reading 'shimmer and shine' in blocky font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • dolphin left of center
  • text right of center
  • horizontal gradient background

Dense Caption

A pixelated dolphin in mid-leap, gray with darker fins and tail, positioned left of center against a blue gradient background transitioning from deep blue at top to light blue at horizon. Below the dolphin, blue water with white foam at the surface. Right side features solid cyan background with black blocky text: 'shimmer' on top line, 'and' on middle line, 'shine' on bottom line. All elements are static with no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated dolphin leaps from blue water against a gradient sky, with cyan background text reading 'shimmer and shine' in blocky font.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dolphin leaping water
  • shimmer and shine text
  • pixelated dolphin cyan background
  • blocky text dolphin image

Visible Text

  • shimmer
  • and
  • shine

Wordwall

  • pixelated dolphin
  • gray dolphin
  • leaping dolphin
  • blue water
  • gradient sky
  • cyan background
  • blocky text
  • shimmer and shine
  • no animation
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070829140905424601619
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9a/9aaf6e6edc9fdfc39f7e0b50c7d5a9347b6a505d86464a945f9d4d2563053b58.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
9aaf6e6edc9fdfc3
SHA-256
9aaf6e6edc9fdfc39f7e0b50c7d5a9347b6a505d86464a945f9d4d2563053b58
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:12 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.121531

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated dolphin leaps from blue water against a gradient sky, with cyan background text reading 'shimmer and shine' in blocky font.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 07:06 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,796 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 681

Review tags

  • leaping (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • sky (object, 0.80)
  • water (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • dolphin (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • leaping

Colors

  • gray
  • blue
  • cyan
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • dolphin left of center
  • text right of center
  • horizontal gradient background

Dense Caption

A pixelated dolphin in mid-leap, gray with darker fins and tail, positioned left of center against a blue gradient background transitioning from deep blue at top to light blue at horizon. Below the dolphin, blue water with white foam at the surface. Right side features solid cyan background with black blocky text: 'shimmer' on top line, 'and' on middle line, 'shine' on bottom line. All elements are static with no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated dolphin leaps from blue water against a gradient sky, with cyan background text reading 'shimmer and shine' in blocky font.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • dolphin leaping water
  • shimmer and shine text
  • pixelated dolphin cyan background
  • blocky text dolphin image

Objects

  • water
  • sky

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • dolphin

Visible Text

  • shimmer
  • and
  • shine

Wordwall

  • pixelated dolphin
  • gray dolphin
  • leaping dolphin
  • blue water
  • gradient sky
  • cyan background
  • blocky text
  • shimmer and shine
  • no animation
  • static image
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:34 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20070829140905424601619
Archive entry
20070829140905424601619.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#20070829140905424601619.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070829140905424601619.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016