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Pixelated wave image on blue background with text 'surf's', 'up', and 'man' in black pixel font.

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Pixelated wave image on blue background with text 'surf's', 'up', and 'man' in black pixel font.

Pixelated wave image on blue background with text 'surf's', 'up', and 'man' in black pixel font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy I…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-left wave
  • text distributed across right and bottom

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated ocean wave rendered in shades of light blue, white, and turquoise against a solid bright blue background. The wave is positioned in the top-left quadrant, showing motion blur effects typical of early digital animation. Text elements appear in black pixelated font: 'surf's' at the top-right corner, 'up' centered below the image area, and 'man' at the bottom-right corner. All text uses a blocky 8-bit style consistent with late-1990s/early-2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated wave image on blue background with text 'surf's', 'up', and 'man' in black pixel font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200710140623551954887592

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • surf's up man wave icon
  • pixelated ocean wave blue background
  • 8-bit surf's up man text
  • wave pixel art bright blue

Visible Text

  • surf's
  • up
  • man

Wordwall

  • pixelated wave
  • bright blue background
  • light blue wave
  • white foam
  • turquoise water
  • black pixel font
  • surf's text
  • up text
  • man text
  • 8-bit style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710140623551954887592
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/58/58ea4390c1c315915395c640dd592a9d49c480090d8dd3c08aae5897bc706947.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC
Archive ID
58ea4390c1c31591
SHA-256
58ea4390c1c315915395c640dd592a9d49c480090d8dd3c08aae5897bc706947
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:31 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.086710

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.928520onnx/unsafe0.086710onnx/nsfw0.048844onnx/nsfl0.037866
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Pixelated wave image on blue background with text 'surf's', 'up', and 'man' in black pixel font.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 09:56 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,839 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 630

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • bright blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • turquoise (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • wave (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • bright blue
  • light blue
  • white
  • turquoise
  • black

Composition

  • top-left wave
  • text distributed across right and bottom

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated ocean wave rendered in shades of light blue, white, and turquoise against a solid bright blue background. The wave is positioned in the top-left quadrant, showing motion blur effects typical of early digital animation. Text elements appear in black pixelated font: 'surf's' at the top-right corner, 'up' centered below the image area, and 'man' at the bottom-right corner. All text uses a blocky 8-bit style consistent with late-1990s/early-2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated wave image on blue background with text 'surf's', 'up', and 'man' in black pixel font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200710140623551954887592

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • surf's up man wave icon
  • pixelated ocean wave blue background
  • 8-bit surf's up man text
  • wave pixel art bright blue

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • wave

Visible Text

  • surf's
  • up
  • man

Wordwall

  • pixelated wave
  • bright blue background
  • light blue wave
  • white foam
  • turquoise water
  • black pixel font
  • surf's text
  • up text
  • man text
  • 8-bit style
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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
200710140623551954887592
Archive entry
200710140623551954887592.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 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#200710140623551954887592.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710140623551954887592.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016