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Pixelated icon of a stylized figure riding a yellow fish with black outlines on a gray background.

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Pixelated icon of a stylized figure riding a yellow fish with black outlines on a gray background.

Pixelated icon of a stylized figure riding a yellow fish with black outlines on a gray background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…,…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • figure atop fish
  • central composition
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated, stylized figure with a round head and simplified body in shades of orange and brown, positioned atop a large yellow fish. The fish has a black outline, a single circular eye, and a black tail fin. The figure's right arm is raised, and its left arm is bent. The background is a solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated icon of a stylized figure riding a yellow fish with black outlines on a gray background.

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

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20070729180422723616866

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • stylized figure riding yellow fish
  • pixelated fish icon
  • orange figure on yellow fish
  • gray background pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but no pixel evidence supports these claims

Subjects

  • figure

Wordwall

  • stylized figure
  • yellow fish
  • black outlines
  • gray background
  • orange-brown figure
  • single circular eye
  • raised right arm
  • bent left arm
  • pixelated graphics
  • limited color palette

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070729180422723616866
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e6/e639aceb42aa34e53a8c7aa4419d77f88401bb9eef35dcefd9b6b99d13a9149f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
e639aceb42aa34e5
SHA-256
e639aceb42aa34e53a8c7aa4419d77f88401bb9eef35dcefd9b6b99d13a9149f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:57 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.106598

OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated icon of a stylized figure riding a yellow fish with black outlines on a gray background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,472 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 696

Review tags

  • bent arm (action, 0.80)
  • raised arm (action, 0.80)
  • riding (action, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • whimsical (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • simplified (style, 0.80)
  • stylized (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)
  • fish (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • riding
  • raised arm
  • bent arm

Colors

  • gray
  • yellow
  • black
  • orange
  • brown

Composition

  • figure atop fish
  • central composition
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated, stylized figure with a round head and simplified body in shades of orange and brown, positioned atop a large yellow fish. The fish has a black outline, a single circular eye, and a black tail fin. The figure's right arm is raised, and its left arm is bent. The background is a solid light gray. The image uses a limited color palette with visible pixelation typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated icon of a stylized figure riding a yellow fish with black outlines on a gray background.

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

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20070729180422723616866

Mood

  • playful
  • whimsical

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • stylized figure riding yellow fish
  • pixelated fish icon
  • orange figure on yellow fish
  • gray background pixel art

Objects

  • fish

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but no pixel evidence supports these claims

Style

  • pixelated
  • stylized
  • simplified

Subjects

  • figure
  • fish

Wordwall

  • stylized figure
  • yellow fish
  • black outlines
  • gray background
  • orange-brown figure
  • single circular eye
  • raised right arm
  • bent left arm
  • pixelated graphics
  • limited color palette
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:43 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)
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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
20070729180422723616866
Archive entry
20070729180422723616866.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#20070729180422723616866.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070729180422723616866.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016