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Pixelated image of a person snowboarding mid-air against a snowy background with cyan text on a pink background.

Pixelated image of a person snowboarding mid-air against a snowy background with cyan text on a pink background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; the image appears static with no motion observed.

Composition

  • split left-right
  • action image on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure of a person snowboarding, captured mid-air with a blue snowboard. The figure wears dark upper clothing and light-colored pants. The background features a snowy landscape with blue sky and clouds. Cyan text on a bright pink background reads 'annoying ski' (partially visible), 'since', 'I', 'ever!', and '9;8♥8;SW BOARD'. The text is in a blocky, pixelated font. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital aesthetic with visible pixelation and color banding. The composition is split between the action image on the left and text on the right. The overall mood is playful and nostalgic due to the pixelated style and bright colors.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person snowboarding mid-air against a snowy background with cyan text on a pink background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snowboarding mid-air pixelated figure cyan text bright pink background
  • snowboard blue snowboard snowy landscape sky clouds
  • annoying ski since I ever 9;8♥8;SW BOARD
  • pixelated retro digital blocky font playful nostalgic
  • cyan bright pink blue white dark gray colors

Visible Text

  • annoying ski
  • since
  • I
  • ever!
  • 9;8♥8;SW BOARD

Wordwall

  • snowboarding
  • mid-air
  • pixelated figure
  • dark upper clothing
  • light pants
  • blue snowboard
  • snowy landscape
  • blue sky
  • clouds
  • cyan text
  • bright pink background
  • blocky font
  • 'annoying ski'
  • 'since'
  • 'I'
  • 'ever!'
  • '9;8♥8;SW BOARD'
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
  • pixelation
  • color banding

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090207182045154733317
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/59/59186bf8705bbd5c752fc5ceb81d21eca9a289c5baa51a4b48293aa093b071d0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC
Archive ID
59186bf8705bbd5c
SHA-256
59186bf8705bbd5c752fc5ceb81d21eca9a289c5baa51a4b48293aa093b071d0
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
0.085818

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.935473onnx/unsafe0.085818onnx/nsfw0.045869onnx/nsfl0.039949
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Pixelated image of a person snowboarding mid-air against a snowy background with cyan text on a pink background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 22:01 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,368 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 911

Review tags

  • mid air (action, 0.80)
  • snowboarding (action, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • clouds (object, 0.80)
  • sky (object, 0.80)
  • snowboard (object, 0.80)
  • snowy landscape (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • snowboarding
  • mid-air

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; the image appears static with no motion observed.

Colors

  • cyan
  • bright pink
  • blue
  • white
  • dark gray

Composition

  • split left-right
  • action image on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure of a person snowboarding, captured mid-air with a blue snowboard. The figure wears dark upper clothing and light-colored pants. The background features a snowy landscape with blue sky and clouds. Cyan text on a bright pink background reads 'annoying ski' (partially visible), 'since', 'I', 'ever!', and '9;8♥8;SW BOARD'. The text is in a blocky, pixelated font. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital aesthetic with visible pixelation and color banding. The composition is split between the action image on the left and text on the right. The overall mood is playful and nostalgic due to the pixelated style and bright colors.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person snowboarding mid-air against a snowy background with cyan text on a pink background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snowboarding mid-air pixelated figure cyan text bright pink background
  • snowboard blue snowboard snowy landscape sky clouds
  • annoying ski since I ever 9;8♥8;SW BOARD
  • pixelated retro digital blocky font playful nostalgic
  • cyan bright pink blue white dark gray colors

Objects

  • snowboard
  • snowy landscape
  • sky
  • clouds

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • annoying ski
  • since
  • I
  • ever!
  • 9;8♥8;SW BOARD

Wordwall

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  • mid-air
  • pixelated figure
  • dark upper clothing
  • light pants
  • blue snowboard
  • snowy landscape
  • blue sky
  • clouds
  • cyan text
  • bright pink background
  • blocky font
  • 'annoying ski'
  • 'since'
  • 'I'
  • 'ever!'
  • '9;8♥8;SW BOARD'
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital
  • pixelation
  • color banding
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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
20090207182045154733317
Archive entry
20090207182045154733317.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 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#20090207182045154733317.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090207182045154733317.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016