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Pixelated penguin standing on light blue background with cyan displaying "SURFS UPP" text

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Pixelated penguin standing on light blue background with cyan displaying "SURFS UPP" text

Pixelated penguin standing on light blue background with cyan displaying "SURFS UPP" text. 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

  • penguin on left
  • text on right
  • vertical split
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated penguin with black head, yellow neck, white belly, and black wings stands facing left on light blue background. Cyan panel on right displays "SURFS UPP" in black pixelated font. Penguin has orange beak tip, black feet, and subtle shadow beneath feet. Background is solid light blue with no additional elements. Text is uppercase with "SURFS" above "UPP". Pixelation is consistent across entire image.

Description

  • Pixelated penguin standing on light blue background with cyan displaying "SURFS UPP" text

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated penguin surfs upp
  • surfs upp penguin icon
  • cyan penguin text
  • light blue background penguin

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated penguin standing on light blue background with cyan panel displaying "SURFS UPP" text.
  • quarantined wordwall: cyan panel
  • quarantined composition: text panel on right
  • quarantined retrieval: cyan panel penguin text

Visible Text

  • SURFS
  • UPP

Wordwall

  • pixelated penguin
  • black head
  • yellow neck
  • white belly
  • black wings
  • orange beak tip
  • black feet
  • light blue background
  • cyan
  • SURFS UPP text
  • pixelated font
  • standing pose
  • left-facing
  • subtle shadow

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708301537311285899258
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/39/394a9bf3edeeb4a3927e072fd9145fcb9078f709af2ef44aae8f7ee41cb812a7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
394a9bf3edeeb4a3
SHA-256
394a9bf3edeeb4a3927e072fd9145fcb9078f709af2ef44aae8f7ee41cb812a7
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:43 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.113811

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated penguin standing on light blue background with cyan displaying "SURFS UPP" text

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 08:02 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,689 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 691

Review tags

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  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
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  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • light blue
  • cyan
  • black
  • yellow
  • white
  • orange

Composition

  • penguin on left
  • text on right
  • vertical split
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated penguin with black head, yellow neck, white belly, and black wings stands facing left on light blue background. Cyan panel on right displays "SURFS UPP" in black pixelated font. Penguin has orange beak tip, black feet, and subtle shadow beneath feet. Background is solid light blue with no additional elements. Text is uppercase with "SURFS" above "UPP". Pixelation is consistent across entire image.

Description

  • Pixelated penguin standing on light blue background with cyan displaying "SURFS UPP" text

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • surfs upp penguin icon
  • cyan penguin text
  • light blue background penguin

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated penguin standing on light blue background with cyan panel displaying "SURFS UPP" text.
  • quarantined wordwall: cyan panel
  • quarantined composition: text panel on right
  • quarantined retrieval: cyan panel penguin text

Style

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  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • penguin

Visible Text

  • SURFS
  • UPP

Wordwall

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  • black head
  • yellow neck
  • white belly
  • black wings
  • orange beak tip
  • black feet
  • light blue background
  • cyan
  • SURFS UPP text
  • pixelated font
  • standing pose
  • left-facing
  • subtle shadow
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:41 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200708301537311285899258
Archive entry
200708301537311285899258.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#200708301537311285899258.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708301537311285899258.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016