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Pixelated wave graphic on left, blue background with yellow text "surfing is life" on right.

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Pixelated wave graphic on left, blue background with yellow text "surfing is life" on right.

Pixelated wave graphic on left, blue background with yellow text "surfing is life" on right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left wave graphic
  • right text block

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated ocean wave in shades of light and dark blue with white foam; the wave curves from bottom-left toward top-right. Right side has solid bright blue background. Yellow pixelated text reads "surfing" at top, "is" centered below it, and "life" at bottom. Text uses blocky 8-bit style font. Wave graphic is static.

Description

  • Pixelated wave graphic on left, blue background with yellow text "surfing is life" 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • surfing wave icon
  • pixelated ocean text icon
  • 8-bit surfing life graphic
  • blue background yellow text wave

Visible Text

  • surfing
  • is
  • life

Visually Supported Entities

  • surfing is life

Wordwall

  • pixelated wave
  • light blue ocean
  • white foam
  • solid bright blue background
  • yellow pixelated text
  • "surfing is life"
  • blocky 8-bit font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070930140603802309089
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 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 14:48 UTC
Archive ID
2c92cb1643c3dd2a
SHA-256
2c92cb1643c3dd2a3047604e5f9d986bc1ae696ee37e16f2e9d15df01043b2ec
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 06:10 UTC
Run
1201
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000020

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:30 UTC
Run
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Pixelated wave graphic on left, blue background with yellow text "surfing is life" on right.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 06:07 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,563 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 568

Review tags

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Colors

  • light blue
  • dark blue
  • white
  • bright blue
  • yellow

Composition

  • left wave graphic
  • right text block

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated ocean wave in shades of light and dark blue with white foam; the wave curves from bottom-left toward top-right. Right side has solid bright blue background. Yellow pixelated text reads "surfing" at top, "is" centered below it, and "life" at bottom. Text uses blocky 8-bit style font. Wave graphic is static.

Description

  • Pixelated wave graphic on left, blue background with yellow text "surfing is life" 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • energetic
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • surfing wave icon
  • pixelated ocean text icon
  • 8-bit surfing life graphic
  • blue background yellow text wave

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • wave

Visible Text

  • surfing
  • is
  • life

Visually Supported Entities

  • surfing is life

Wordwall

  • pixelated wave
  • light blue ocean
  • white foam
  • solid bright blue background
  • yellow pixelated text
  • "surfing is life"
  • blocky 8-bit font
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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
20070930140603802309089
Archive entry
20070930140603802309089.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 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#20070930140603802309089.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070930140603802309089.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016