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Pixelated cartoon fish with white body, dark eye, and orange fins, below which is text reading "-xchaos-" in blocky font.

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Pixelated cartoon fish with white body, dark eye, and orange fins, below which is text reading "-xchaos-" in blocky font.

Pixelated cartoon fish with white body, dark eye, and orange fins, below which is text reading "-xchaos-" in blocky font. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image

Composition

  • centered fish
  • text below fish
  • white background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated cartoon fish with a white body, a single dark eye, and orange fins. The fish has a rounded body shape with a small brownish fin on top. Below the fish, there is text in a blocky, pixelated font that reads "-xchaos-". The background is white. The fish's eye is a small dark rectangle, and the fins are orange with some brownish tones. The overall style is low-resolution and pixelated, typical of early digital graphics. The fish appears to be facing left, with its eye positioned on the left side of its head. The text is centered below the fish, with hyphens on either side of the word "xchaos". The image has a retro, early-internet aesthetic due to its pixelated nature and limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon fish with white body, dark eye, and orange fins, below which is text reading "-xchaos-" 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

  • pixelated fish cartoon
  • white body orange fins
  • -xchaos- text
  • blocky font fish icon
  • retro digital fish icon
  • centered fish text
  • single eye fish
  • orange fin cartoon fish

Style

  • cartoon

Visible Text

  • -xchaos-

Wordwall

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  • white body
  • dark eye
  • orange fins
  • brownish top fin
  • blocky text font
  • white background
  • text reads -xchaos-
  • small dark rectangle eye
  • rounded body shape
  • centered text
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • limited color palette
  • facing left
  • single eye
  • hyphens on text sides

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081021010206351522187
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ba/ba3f256856d8770ce4e0009f59f09f94d12370a585b46840149eb156447065d4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
ba3f256856d8770c
SHA-256
ba3f256856d8770ce4e0009f59f09f94d12370a585b46840149eb156447065d4
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:22 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.066666

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Pixelated cartoon fish with white body, dark eye, and orange fins, below which is text reading "-xchaos-" in blocky font.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 05:02 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,381 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 846

Review tags

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  • fish (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image

Colors

  • white
  • dark gray
  • orange
  • brown

Composition

  • centered fish
  • text below fish
  • white background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated cartoon fish with a white body, a single dark eye, and orange fins. The fish has a rounded body shape with a small brownish fin on top. Below the fish, there is text in a blocky, pixelated font that reads "-xchaos-". The background is white. The fish's eye is a small dark rectangle, and the fins are orange with some brownish tones. The overall style is low-resolution and pixelated, typical of early digital graphics. The fish appears to be facing left, with its eye positioned on the left side of its head. The text is centered below the fish, with hyphens on either side of the word "xchaos". The image has a retro, early-internet aesthetic due to its pixelated nature and limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon fish with white body, dark eye, and orange fins, below which is text reading "-xchaos-" 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
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  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
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  • white body orange fins
  • -xchaos- text
  • blocky font fish icon
  • retro digital fish icon
  • centered fish text
  • single eye fish
  • orange fin cartoon fish

Style

  • pixelated
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  • blocky font

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  • fish

Visible Text

  • -xchaos-

Wordwall

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  • dark eye
  • orange fins
  • brownish top fin
  • blocky text font
  • white background
  • text reads -xchaos-
  • small dark rectangle eye
  • rounded body shape
  • centered text
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • limited color palette
  • facing left
  • single eye
  • hyphens on text sides
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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
20081021010206351522187
Archive entry
20081021010206351522187.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#20081021010206351522187.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081021010206351522187.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016