Animated contact sheet of a surfing-themed AIM buddy icon showing frame-by-frame motion with text "I'D RATHER BE SURFING" over an aerial ocean scene with surfers and star decorations.

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Animated contact sheet of a surfing-themed AIM buddy icon showing frame-by-frame motion with text "I'D RATHER BE SURFING" over an aerial ocean scene with surfers and star decorations.

Animated contact sheet of a surfing-themed AIM buddy icon showing frame-by-frame motion with text "I'D RATHER BE SURFING" over an aerial ocean scene with surfers and star decorati…

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Animation

  • stars shift position between frames
  • text alignment varies slightly per frame
  • surfer figures maintain consistent positions with minor motion effects

Animation Summary

Frame-by-frame animation shows subtle motion effects with stars shifting positions across frames while maintaining consistent ocean/surf imagery and blue text placement.

Composition

  • aerial perspective
  • left-aligned text
  • star decorations on right edge
  • consistent frame layout

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x3 contact sheet containing 10 animated frames from a single AIM buddy icon. Each frame features the phrase "I'D RATHER BE SURFING" in bold blue pixelated text on the left side, set against an aerial view of turquoise ocean water with white surf trails and two small dark figures representing surfers. The background includes scattered light purple and white star decorations along the right edge and top corners. Frame-to-frame animation shows subtle variations: stars shift position (some frames have 4-5 visible stars), text placement shifts slightly, and the surfer figures' positions change minimally across frames. The overall style is retro pixel art with limited color palette typical of early internet graphics. A gray background surrounds the contact sheet grid indicating transparency in the original icon. Each frame maintains consistent composition with blue water, white surf lines, and star decorations while showing minor motion effects through changing star placements and text alignment.

Description

Animated contact sheet of a surfing-themed AIM buddy icon showing frame-by-frame motion with text "I'D RATHER BE SURFING" over an aerial ocean scene with surfers and star decorations.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Id Rather Be Surfing | basis both | 0.9 | exact text matches visible phrase and source hints

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • source hints mention specific character names or brands not visible in image
  • category "recreation" supported but no other recreation details visible

Metadata Only Entities

  • MyOldIcons API reference
  • 1108240425_1422632411.gif filename
  • brad822 surf character name

Metadata Supported By Image

  • surfing theme is visually confirmed by ocean/surf imagery
  • text phrase matches visible text exactly
  • retro pixel art style consistent with early 2000s internet graphics

Named Entities

  • Id Rather Be Surfing

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • surfing buddy icon
  • id rather be surfing text
  • aerial ocean surfing animation
  • blue pixelated surfing text
  • retro AIM surfing icon
  • surfing star decorations

Objects

  • text block

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains 10 sampled frames from animated icon
  • 4x3 grid layout
  • gray background indicates transparency in original icon
  • review image size 1024x768 pixels

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit surfing theme with cartoonish surfers, no nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

non-authoritative source hints suggest surfing recreation theme, AIM buddy icons, and MyOldIcons collection with possible "Id Rather Be Surfing" title reference

Visible Text

  • I'D RATHER BE SURFING

Visually Supported Entities

  • surfing culture icon
  • AIM buddy icon collection

Wordwall

  • aerial ocean view
  • turquoise water
  • white surf trails
  • two surfer figures
  • blue pixelated text
  • "I'D RATHER BE SURFING"
  • light purple stars
  • white stars
  • star decorations on right edge
  • text shifts slightly between frames
  • stars move position frame-to-frame
  • surfing theme icon
  • retro pixel art style
  • 48x48 pixel dimensions
  • gray background transparency
  • contact sheet layout 4x3
  • frame-by-frame animation
  • small dark surfer figures
  • blue text with white outline
  • star positions vary per frame
  • ocean water texture
  • surf trail patterns
  • text alignment changes
  • pixelated font style

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX OriginalIcons Image Icons GIF Captures

Source title
1117978771_320235033
Category
images / icons / recreation / surfing
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 04:52 UTC

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / recreation / surfing
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 11:01 UTC

Wayback Buddy-Icons.info Remaining Category Portal Shard

Source title
Character icons for AIM, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo
Category
aim icons / character / page6 / character icons for aim msn myspace and yahoo
Era
Mid-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 22:33 UTC

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
25650
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 21:54 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.1 KB
Motion
Animated (10 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/6a/6ae835de092460c66958ed2f605a09b00a9ffbfe94d9f51cd971121cd51f9b5e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:09 UTC
Archive ID
6ae835de092460c6
SHA-256
6ae835de092460c66958ed2f605a09b00a9ffbfe94d9f51cd971121cd51f9b5e
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 18:25 UTC
Run
93
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090911

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.915054onnx/unsafe0.090911onnx/nsfw0.053008onnx/nsfl0.037903
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 12, 2026 at 06:15 UTC
Run
28
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 surfing-themed AIM buddy icon showing frame-by-frame motion with text "I'D RATHER BE SURFING" over an aerial ocean scene with surfers and star decorations.

Reviewed
July 12, 2026 at 06:15 UTC
Run
28
Version
v3
Elapsed
15,578 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,153, response 1,328

Review tags

  • text (object, 0.95)
  • surfing (subject, 0.95)
  • gray background (background, 0.90)
  • 48x48 pixels (dimension, 0.90)
  • blue text (object, 0.90)
  • pixel art (style, 0.90)
  • ocean (subject, 0.90)
  • animation (medium, 0.85)
  • stars (object, 0.85)
  • surf trails (object, 0.85)
  • retro (style, 0.85)

Actions

  • surfing
  • shifting stars

Animation

  • stars shift position between frames
  • text alignment varies slightly per frame
  • surfer figures maintain consistent positions with minor motion effects

Animation Summary

Frame-by-frame animation shows subtle motion effects with stars shifting positions across frames while maintaining consistent ocean/surf imagery and blue text placement.

Colors

  • turquoise
  • blue
  • white
  • light purple
  • gray

Composition

  • aerial perspective
  • left-aligned text
  • star decorations on right edge
  • consistent frame layout

Dense Caption

The image displays a 4x3 contact sheet containing 10 animated frames from a single AIM buddy icon. Each frame features the phrase "I'D RATHER BE SURFING" in bold blue pixelated text on the left side, set against an aerial view of turquoise ocean water with white surf trails and two small dark figures representing surfers. The background includes scattered light purple and white star decorations along the right edge and top corners. Frame-to-frame animation shows subtle variations: stars shift position (some frames have 4-5 visible stars), text placement shifts slightly, and the surfer figures' positions change minimally across frames. The overall style is retro pixel art with limited color palette typical of early internet graphics. A gray background surrounds the contact sheet grid indicating transparency in the original icon. Each frame maintains consistent composition with blue water, white surf lines, and star decorations while showing minor motion effects through changing star placements and text alignment.

Description

Animated contact sheet of a surfing-themed AIM buddy icon showing frame-by-frame motion with text "I'D RATHER BE SURFING" over an aerial ocean scene with surfers and star decorations.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Id Rather Be Surfing | basis both | 0.9 | exact text matches visible phrase and source hints

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • source hints mention specific character names or brands not visible in image
  • category "recreation" supported but no other recreation details visible

Metadata Only Entities

  • MyOldIcons API reference
  • 1108240425_1422632411.gif filename
  • brad822 surf character name

Metadata Supported By Image

  • surfing theme is visually confirmed by ocean/surf imagery
  • text phrase matches visible text exactly
  • retro pixel art style consistent with early 2000s internet graphics

Mood

  • relaxed
  • recreational
  • nostalgic

Named Entities

  • Id Rather Be Surfing

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • surfing buddy icon
  • id rather be surfing text
  • aerial ocean surfing animation
  • blue pixelated surfing text
  • retro AIM surfing icon
  • surfing star decorations

Objects

  • ocean water
  • surf trails
  • text block

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet contains 10 sampled frames from animated icon
  • 4x3 grid layout
  • gray background indicates transparency in original icon
  • review image size 1024x768 pixels

Safety Notes

  • non-explicit surfing theme with cartoonish surfers, no nudity or explicit content

Source Metadata Interpretation

non-authoritative source hints suggest surfing recreation theme, AIM buddy icons, and MyOldIcons collection with possible "Id Rather Be Surfing" title reference

Style

  • retro pixel art
  • low-resolution graphics
  • AIM buddy icon style

Subjects

  • surfers
  • stars

Visible Text

  • I'D RATHER BE SURFING

Visually Supported Entities

  • surfing culture icon
  • AIM buddy icon collection

Wordwall

  • aerial ocean view
  • turquoise water
  • white surf trails
  • two surfer figures
  • blue pixelated text
  • "I'D RATHER BE SURFING"
  • light purple stars
  • white stars
  • star decorations on right edge
  • text shifts slightly between frames
  • stars move position frame-to-frame
  • surfing theme icon
  • retro pixel art style
  • 48x48 pixel dimensions
  • gray background transparency
  • contact sheet layout 4x3
  • frame-by-frame animation
  • small dark surfer figures
  • blue text with white outline
  • star positions vary per frame
  • ocean water texture
  • surf trail patterns
  • text alignment changes
  • pixelated font style
Raw JSON
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Full source records (4)

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 / recreation / surfing
Alt
1117978771_320235033
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 / recreation / surfing
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
1108240425_1422632411.gif | brad822 surf | animated | myoldicons id 206724
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 11:01 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 Buddy-Icons.info Remaining Category Portal Shard (wayback-buddy-icons-info-remaining-categories-portal)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
Mid-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Internet Archive preserved categorized AIM icon portal
Category
aim icons / character / page6 / character icons for aim msn myspace and yahoo
Title
Character icons for AIM, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo
Alt
Id Rather Be Surfing
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 22:33 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
remaining AIM portal categories spanning identity, emotion, school, holidays, sports, symbols, and everyday culture

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs (wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration
Category
img / icon
Alt
25650
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 21:54 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
native Buddy-Icons.info AIM icon assets spanning user submissions, fandom, identity, relationships, school, sports, music, movies, and celebrity culture