Animated contact sheet of a yellow fish with orange stripes and a wind-up key on its head, showing sequential motion frames in 3x3 grid layout.

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Animated contact sheet of a yellow fish with orange stripes and a wind-up key on its head, showing sequential motion frames in 3x3 grid layout.

Animated contact sheet of a yellow fish with orange stripes and a wind-up key on its head, showing sequential motion frames in 3x3 grid layout. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon f…

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Animation

  • frame 0: mouth slightly open, tail angled left
  • frame 1: mouth closed, tail straightened
  • frame 2: mouth slightly open, tail angled right
  • frame 3: mouth closed, tail straightened
  • frame 4: mouth slightly open, tail angled left
  • frame 5: mouth closed, tail straightened
  • frame 6: mouth slightly open, tail angled left
  • frame 7: mouth closed, tail straightened

Animation Summary

Eight sequential frames showing a yellow cartoon fish with orange stripes performing subtle motion changes while maintaining consistent facial features, each frame featuring a gray wind-up key on its head. The animation shows incremental variations in mouth position (open/closed), tail fin angle, and body curvature across the sequence.

Composition

  • centered subject
  • consistent frame size
  • 3x3 contact sheet layout

Dense Caption

A 3x3 contact sheet displays eight animated frames of a cartoon fish character. The fish is bright yellow with three thick orange vertical stripes across its body, has large blue eyes with black pupils, and a long pointed snout. A small gray wind-up key mechanism sits on top of the fish's head in all frames. Each frame shows subtle variations in the fish's pose: leftward-facing mouth position shifts slightly between frames, tail fin angles change incrementally, and body curvature differs across sampled frames. The character maintains consistent facial features including a slight smile expression throughout the animation sequence. All elements are rendered with soft anti-aliased edges on a transparent background that appears as light gray in this contact sheet view. The fish's fins (dorsal, pectoral, tail) show subtle color variations between lighter and darker orange shades. Each frame is 50x50 pixels with consistent composition centered within the frame space.

Description

Animated contact sheet of a yellow fish with orange stripes and a wind-up key on its head, showing sequential motion frames in 3x3 grid layout.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Windupfish | basis both | high confidence | visible wind-up key and cartoon fish design
  • Cartoon Fish Character | basis visible | medium confidence | no specific name or branding visible

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • no visible text or branding to confirm specific character name 'Windupfish'
  • no explicit connection to toys beyond mechanical key feature

Metadata Only Entities

  • windupfish (character name)
  • originalicons.com collection

Metadata Supported By Image

  • wind-up key on head matches toy wind-up mechanism description
  • yellow/orange color scheme consistent with cartoon fish design

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow fish wind-up key animation
  • cartoon fish orange stripes motion frames
  • windup mechanism fish buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 3x3 with 8 visible frames (1 empty cell)
  • sampled frame count 8 from sourceFrameCount 8
  • transparent background appears gray in contact sheet view

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon character with no sexual content or nudity

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • non-authoritative hints suggest 'windupfish' or 'wind up fish' character name and category as toys/animated misc
  • hints indicate this is part of a larger collection of original AOL buddy icons

Style

  • pixel art style

Visually Supported Entities

  • cartoon fish character with wind-up mechanism

Wordwall

  • yellow cartoon fish
  • orange vertical stripes
  • wind-up key on head
  • blue eyes
  • pointed snout
  • slight smile expression
  • gray wind-up mechanism
  • three visible fins
  • soft anti-aliased edges
  • transparent background
  • sequential motion frames
  • leftward-facing mouth
  • tail fin angle variation
  • body curvature change
  • light orange highlights
  • dark orange shadows
  • consistent facial features
  • small cartoon character
  • 50x50 pixel frame
  • contact sheet layout

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 7, 2026

Wayback CDX OriginalIcons.com GIF Captures

Source title
windupfish
Category
buddyicons / animated misc 2 / windupfish
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Observed
July 7, 2026 at 20:03 UTC

Wayback CDX OriginalIcons Image Icons GIF Captures

Source title
1097599324_1300414450
Category
images / icons / toys / wind up
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 04:52 UTC

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / toys / wind up
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 11:17 UTC

Wayback CDX OriginalIcons.com GIF Captures

Source title
windupfish
Category
buddyicons / animated misc 2
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Observed
July 21, 2026 at 20:47 UTC

Experiment Control Wayback Source

Source title
windupfish
Category
buddyicons / animated misc 2
Observed
July 27, 2026 at 08:38 UTC

Experiment Googlebot Wayback Source

Source title
windupfish
Category
buddyicons / animated misc 2
Observed
July 27, 2026 at 08:41 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.7 KB
Motion
Animated (8 frames)
Added to archive
July 7, 2026
Relative path
icons/d4/d469c9a4a756e3d184720823e284d82fbb0da054d13da481402009177c126640.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:03 UTC
Archive ID
d469c9a4a756e3d1
SHA-256
d469c9a4a756e3d184720823e284d82fbb0da054d13da481402009177c126640
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:49 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081573

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.922526onnx/unsafe0.081573onnx/nsfw0.047657onnx/nsfl0.033917
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 9, 2026 at 22:21 UTC
Run
6
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.950000

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flaglegacy/manual-review0.000000falselegacy/nsfw0.000000false
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Animated contact sheet of a yellow fish with orange stripes and a wind-up key on its head, showing sequential motion frames in 3x3 grid layout.

Reviewed
July 9, 2026 at 22:21 UTC
Run
6
Version
v3
Elapsed
23,365 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,080, response 1,305

Review tags

  • sequential motion frames (animation, 0.95)
  • orange stripes (color pattern, 0.95)
  • transparent background (composition, 0.95)
  • blue eyes (feature, 0.95)
  • pointed snout (feature, 0.95)
  • 3x3 contact sheet (layout, 0.95)
  • wind up key (object, 0.95)
  • cartoon animation (style, 0.95)
  • small cartoon character (subject, 0.95)
  • yellow fish (subject, 0.95)

Actions

  • sequential motion frames
  • subtle pose changes between frames

Animation

  • frame 0: mouth slightly open, tail angled left
  • frame 1: mouth closed, tail straightened
  • frame 2: mouth slightly open, tail angled right
  • frame 3: mouth closed, tail straightened
  • frame 4: mouth slightly open, tail angled left
  • frame 5: mouth closed, tail straightened
  • frame 6: mouth slightly open, tail angled left
  • frame 7: mouth closed, tail straightened

Animation Summary

Eight sequential frames showing a yellow cartoon fish with orange stripes performing subtle motion changes while maintaining consistent facial features, each frame featuring a gray wind-up key on its head. The animation shows incremental variations in mouth position (open/closed), tail fin angle, and body curvature across the sequence.

Colors

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

Composition

  • centered subject
  • consistent frame size
  • 3x3 contact sheet layout

Dense Caption

A 3x3 contact sheet displays eight animated frames of a cartoon fish character. The fish is bright yellow with three thick orange vertical stripes across its body, has large blue eyes with black pupils, and a long pointed snout. A small gray wind-up key mechanism sits on top of the fish's head in all frames. Each frame shows subtle variations in the fish's pose: leftward-facing mouth position shifts slightly between frames, tail fin angles change incrementally, and body curvature differs across sampled frames. The character maintains consistent facial features including a slight smile expression throughout the animation sequence. All elements are rendered with soft anti-aliased edges on a transparent background that appears as light gray in this contact sheet view. The fish's fins (dorsal, pectoral, tail) show subtle color variations between lighter and darker orange shades. Each frame is 50x50 pixels with consistent composition centered within the frame space.

Description

Animated contact sheet of a yellow fish with orange stripes and a wind-up key on its head, showing sequential motion frames in 3x3 grid layout.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Windupfish | basis both | high confidence | visible wind-up key and cartoon fish design
  • Cartoon Fish Character | basis visible | medium confidence | no specific name or branding visible

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • no visible text or branding to confirm specific character name 'Windupfish'
  • no explicit connection to toys beyond mechanical key feature

Metadata Only Entities

  • windupfish (character name)
  • originalicons.com collection

Metadata Supported By Image

  • wind-up key on head matches toy wind-up mechanism description
  • yellow/orange color scheme consistent with cartoon fish design

Mood

  • playful
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow fish wind-up key animation
  • cartoon fish orange stripes motion frames
  • windup mechanism fish buddy icon

Objects

  • wind-up key on head
  • fins (dorsal, pectoral, tail)

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 3x3 with 8 visible frames (1 empty cell)
  • sampled frame count 8 from sourceFrameCount 8
  • transparent background appears gray in contact sheet view

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit cartoon character with no sexual content or nudity

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • non-authoritative hints suggest 'windupfish' or 'wind up fish' character name and category as toys/animated misc
  • hints indicate this is part of a larger collection of original AOL buddy icons

Style

  • cartoon animation
  • pixel art style
  • simple character design

Subjects

  • yellow fish with orange stripes
  • wind-up key mechanism

Visually Supported Entities

  • cartoon fish character with wind-up mechanism

Wordwall

  • yellow cartoon fish
  • orange vertical stripes
  • wind-up key on head
  • blue eyes
  • pointed snout
  • slight smile expression
  • gray wind-up mechanism
  • three visible fins
  • soft anti-aliased edges
  • transparent background
  • sequential motion frames
  • leftward-facing mouth
  • tail fin angle variation
  • body curvature change
  • light orange highlights
  • dark orange shadows
  • consistent facial features
  • small cartoon character
  • 50x50 pixel frame
  • contact sheet layout
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Full source records (6)

Wayback CDX OriginalIcons.com GIF Captures (wayback-originalicons-com-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Type
Wayback historical portal crawl
Category
buddyicons / animated misc 2 / windupfish
Alt
windupfish
Observed
July 7, 2026 at 20:03 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and uncertain provenance; research/reference only by default
Slice
large recovered buddy-icon portal and user-submitted icon culture

Wayback CDX OriginalIcons Image Icons GIF Captures (wayback-originalicons-image-icons-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Type
Wayback historical portal crawl
Category
images / icons / toys / wind up
Alt
1097599324_1300414450
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 04:52 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and uncertain provenance; research/reference only by default
Slice
OriginalIcons category image folders with celebrity, entertainment, holiday, and user-submitted buddy icons

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival (myoldicons-originalicons)

Kind
myoldicons-api
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Type
current recovered OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / toys / wind up
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
1097599324_1300414450.gif | wind up fish | animated | myoldicons id 210370
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 11:17 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
recovered large-scale AIM icon and away-message archive with category, subcategory, filename, keyword, and animation metadata

Wayback CDX OriginalIcons.com GIF Captures (wayback-originalicons-com-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Type
Wayback historical portal crawl
Category
buddyicons / animated misc 2
Alt
windupfish
Observed
July 21, 2026 at 20:47 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and uncertain provenance; research/reference only by default
Slice
large recovered buddy-icon portal and user-submitted icon culture