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Pixelated beach scene with palm trees and ocean on left, bright cyan background with text "surfing," "friends," and "SUMMER 09" on right.

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Pixelated beach scene with palm trees and ocean on left, bright cyan background with text "surfing," "friends," and "SUMMER 09" on right.

Pixelated beach scene with palm trees and ocean on left, bright cyan background with text "surfing," "friends," and "SUMMER 09" on right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Mood

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image throughout all observations.

Composition

  • left: landscape , right: text

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated beach landscape: two palm tree trunks, blurred green fronds, sandy shore, blue water, distant landmass under light blue sky. Right side has solid bright cyan background. Black pixelated text reads "surfing" (top-right), "friends" (bottom-left), and "SUMMER 09" (bottom-right). All elements are static; no animation observed. Text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. Colors include cyan, blue, beige, green, black.

Description

  • Pixelated beach scene with palm trees and ocean on left, bright cyan background with text "surfing," "friends," and "SUMMER 09" on right.

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: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090606122210977420065

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beach surfing friends
  • surfing summer 09 beach
  • palm trees ocean cyan background
  • summer 09 friends surfing text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: left: landscape panel, right: text panel

Visible Text

  • surfing
  • friends
  • SUMMER 09

Wordwall

  • beach scene
  • palm trees
  • ocean view
  • cyan background
  • pixelated text
  • surfing
  • friends
  • SUMMER 09

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090606122210977420065
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/1a/1a9baff9e8013c1f6296c83255ed42b63f5dcc61bc5d4863d8885c500b5fbf8b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
1a9baff9e8013c1f
SHA-256
1a9baff9e8013c1f6296c83255ed42b63f5dcc61bc5d4863d8885c500b5fbf8b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:11 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.098262

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated beach scene with palm trees and ocean on left, bright cyan background with text "surfing," "friends," and "SUMMER 09" on right.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 11:38 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,485 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 620

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • relaxed (mood, 0.80)
  • summer vibe (mood, 0.80)
  • distant landmass (object, 0.80)
  • palm tree trunks (object, 0.80)
  • sandy shore (object, 0.80)
  • water (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image throughout all observations.

Colors

  • cyan
  • blue
  • beige
  • green
  • black

Composition

  • left: landscape , right: text

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated beach landscape: two palm tree trunks, blurred green fronds, sandy shore, blue water, distant landmass under light blue sky. Right side has solid bright cyan background. Black pixelated text reads "surfing" (top-right), "friends" (bottom-left), and "SUMMER 09" (bottom-right). All elements are static; no animation observed. Text uses blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. Colors include cyan, blue, beige, green, black.

Description

  • Pixelated beach scene with palm trees and ocean on left, bright cyan background with text "surfing," "friends," and "SUMMER 09" on right.

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: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090606122210977420065

Mood

  • relaxed
  • summer vibe

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beach surfing friends
  • surfing summer 09 beach
  • palm trees ocean cyan background
  • summer 09 friends surfing text

Objects

  • palm tree trunks
  • sandy shore
  • water
  • distant landmass

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: left: landscape panel, right: text panel

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Visible Text

  • surfing
  • friends
  • SUMMER 09

Wordwall

  • beach scene
  • palm trees
  • ocean view
  • cyan background
  • pixelated text
  • surfing
  • friends
  • SUMMER 09
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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
20090606122210977420065
Archive entry
20090606122210977420065.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#20090606122210977420065.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090606122210977420065.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016