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Pixelated image of a person snowboarding with arms outstretched against a snowy background, next to cyan text reading "snow is amazin <3 ily".

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Pixelated image of a person snowboarding with arms outstretched against a snowy background, next to cyan text reading "snow is amazin <3 ily".

Pixelated image of a person snowboarding with arms outstretched against a snowy background, next to cyan text reading "snow is amazin <3 ily". Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fr…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split vertical layout
  • left: action scene
  • right: text block

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated figure in dark top and light pants performing aerial snowboard trick on blue board; white snow and sky background. Right side has solid cyan background with black pixelated text: "snow" (top), "is", "amazin", "<3", "ily" (bottom). Text uses blocky, retro font style. Snowboarder's pose shows extended arms and bent knees. Pixelation creates low-resolution, 8-bit aesthetic.

Description

Pixelated image of a person snowboarding with arms outstretched against a snowy background, next to cyan text reading "snow is amazin <3 ily".

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071214172512626854879

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snowboarder pixel art cyan text
  • amazin <3 ily snow
  • aerial trick blue board white background
  • 8-bit retro snowboarding icon

Visible Text

  • snow is amazin <3 ily

Wordwall

  • pixelated snowboarder
  • aerial trick
  • dark top light pants
  • blue snowboard
  • white snow background
  • cyan text block
  • black pixel font
  • <3 heart symbol
  • amazin spelling
  • ily abbreviation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071214172512626854879
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 UTC
Archive ID
17a2f7678d70f318
SHA-256
17a2f7678d70f31863013bc471bdbaf6a89921ec269f128a6fc4fbed1439faa4
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:08 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.130356

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person snowboarding with arms outstretched against a snowy background, next to cyan text reading "snow is amazin <3 ily".

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 01:57 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,830 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 698

Review tags

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  • extending arms (action, 0.80)
  • performing aerial trick (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
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  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blue snowboard (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
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  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • person snowboarder (subject, 0.80)

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  • performing aerial trick
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  • bent knees

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • white
  • dark gray
  • light gray
  • blue

Composition

  • split vertical layout
  • left: action scene
  • right: text block

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated figure in dark top and light pants performing aerial snowboard trick on blue board; white snow and sky background. Right side has solid cyan background with black pixelated text: "snow" (top), "is", "amazin", "<3", "ily" (bottom). Text uses blocky, retro font style. Snowboarder's pose shows extended arms and bent knees. Pixelation creates low-resolution, 8-bit aesthetic.

Description

Pixelated image of a person snowboarding with arms outstretched against a snowy background, next to cyan text reading "snow is amazin <3 ily".

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071214172512626854879

Mood

  • energetic
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • amazin <3 ily snow
  • aerial trick blue board white background
  • 8-bit retro snowboarding icon

Objects

  • blue snowboard

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • retro

Subjects

  • person (snowboarder)

Visible Text

  • snow is amazin <3 ily

Wordwall

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  • aerial trick
  • dark top light pants
  • blue snowboard
  • white snow background
  • cyan text block
  • black pixel font
  • <3 heart symbol
  • amazin spelling
  • ily abbreviation
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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
20071214172512626854879
Archive entry
20071214172512626854879.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 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#20071214172512626854879.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071214172512626854879.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016