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Pixelated blue swimming figure with pink and yellow sparkles, transitioning to yellow motion trails and black text reading "Ay" and "Away".

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Pixelated blue swimming figure with pink and yellow sparkles, transitioning to yellow motion trails and black text reading "Ay" and "Away".

Pixelated blue swimming figure with pink and yellow sparkles, transitioning to yellow motion trails and black text reading "Ay" and "Away". Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • sparkles appear
  • motion trails appear
  • text changes from "Ay" to "Away"

Animation Summary

The blue swimming figure shifts position with pink and yellow sparkles appearing, followed by yellow motion trails. Text changes from "Ay" to "Away" with three black dots trailing.

Composition

  • central figure
  • text below
  • dots to right

Dense Caption

Pixelated blue swimming figure with arms extended forward and legs trailing, surrounded by pink and yellow sparkles. The figure's position shifts slightly left to right across frames. Yellow motion trails appear beneath the figure in later frames. Black pixelated text "Ay" appears on the left side, followed by "Away" on the right. Three small black dots follow the text. Pink pixelated figure appears at bottom left and bottom right. Background is white.

Description

  • Pixelated blue swimming figure with pink and yellow sparkles, transitioning to yellow motion trails and black text reading "Ay" and "Away".

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue swimming figure yellow motion trails
  • pink sparkles black text Ay Away
  • pixelated swimming figure white background
  • yellow motion trails black dots text

Visible Text

  • Ay
  • Away

Wordwall

  • blue swimming figure
  • pink sparkles
  • yellow motion trails
  • black text "Ay"
  • black text "Away"
  • three black dots
  • pink figure
  • white background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708091826211729504144
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b8/b8518dbbb3d814adbfaa65423570abc07cb22f77220e1c4bd0a92ae5e89e0980.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
b8518dbbb3d814ad
SHA-256
b8518dbbb3d814adbfaa65423570abc07cb22f77220e1c4bd0a92ae5e89e0980
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:32 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073731

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated blue swimming figure with pink and yellow sparkles, transitioning to yellow motion trails and black text reading "Ay" and "Away".

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 21:30 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,981 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 696

Review tags

  • moving (action, 0.80)
  • swimming (action, 0.80)
  • trailing (action, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • motion trails (object, 0.80)
  • sparkles (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • dots (subject, 0.80)
  • swimming figure (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • swimming
  • moving
  • trailing

Animation

  • sparkles appear
  • motion trails appear
  • text changes from "Ay" to "Away"

Animation Summary

The blue swimming figure shifts position with pink and yellow sparkles appearing, followed by yellow motion trails. Text changes from "Ay" to "Away" with three black dots trailing.

Colors

  • blue
  • pink
  • yellow
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • central figure
  • text below
  • dots to right

Dense Caption

Pixelated blue swimming figure with arms extended forward and legs trailing, surrounded by pink and yellow sparkles. The figure's position shifts slightly left to right across frames. Yellow motion trails appear beneath the figure in later frames. Black pixelated text "Ay" appears on the left side, followed by "Away" on the right. Three small black dots follow the text. Pink pixelated figure appears at bottom left and bottom right. Background is white.

Description

  • Pixelated blue swimming figure with pink and yellow sparkles, transitioning to yellow motion trails and black text reading "Ay" and "Away".

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • playful
  • dynamic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue swimming figure yellow motion trails
  • pink sparkles black text Ay Away
  • pixelated swimming figure white background
  • yellow motion trails black dots text

Objects

  • sparkles
  • motion trails

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • animated

Subjects

  • swimming figure
  • text
  • dots

Visible Text

  • Ay
  • Away

Wordwall

  • blue swimming figure
  • pink sparkles
  • yellow motion trails
  • black text "Ay"
  • black text "Away"
  • three black dots
  • pink figure
  • white background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:04 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)
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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
200708091826211729504144
Archive entry
200708091826211729504144.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#200708091826211729504144.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708091826211729504144.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016