Pixelated black-and-white image with text blocks reading 'Ride the waves... dont fight them' on a gray gradient background.

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Pixelated black-and-white image with text blocks reading 'Ride the waves... dont fight them' on a gray gradient background.

Pixelated black-and-white image with text blocks reading 'Ride the waves... dont fight them' on a gray gradient background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Composition

  • four separate text sections
  • top-to-bottom arrangement
  • text blocks aligned left and center
  • background gradient from light to dark gray

Dense Caption

The image is a static, pixelated graphic composed of four distinct text blocks set against a grayscale gradient background. The top-left block contains 'Ride', the top-right block contains 'the', the middle block contains 'waves...', and the bottom block contains 'dont fight them'. All text uses a white, blocky, pixel-art style font on solid black rectangular backgrounds. The background transitions from light gray at the top to dark gray at the bottom with visible pixelation artifacts. Each word or phrase is contained within its own separate black rectangle. The text 'Ride' and 'the' are positioned above 'waves...', which sits above 'dont fight', which in turn sits above 'them'.

Description

  • Pixelated black-and-white image with text blocks reading 'Ride the waves... dont fight them' on a gray gradient 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080930083038552800248

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated text waves dont fight
  • black rectangles white font gray background
  • Ride the waves dont fight them
  • monochrome pixel art quote

Visible Text

  • Ride
  • the
  • waves...
  • dont fight
  • them

Wordwall

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  • black rectangles behind text
  • gray gradient background
  • white blocky font
  • four distinct text sections
  • no visible characters or objects
  • text reads 'Ride the waves... dont fight them'
  • all letters lowercase except 'Ride'

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080930083038552800248
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/64/647193e30bd09618944e5981ad0be501d282e157be2328ac59fa0a901a392189.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
647193e30bd09618
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 02:23 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000505

OpenAI category scores

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Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:43 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated black-and-white image with text blocks reading 'Ride the waves... dont fight them' on a gray gradient background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:21 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,200 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 723

Review tags

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  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • calming (mood, 0.80)
  • philosophical (mood, 0.80)
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Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

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  • background gradient from light to dark gray

Dense Caption

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Description

  • Pixelated black-and-white image with text blocks reading 'Ride the waves... dont fight them' on a gray gradient 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080930083038552800248

Mood

  • calming
  • philosophical

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  • pixelated text waves dont fight
  • black rectangles white font gray background
  • Ride the waves dont fight them
  • monochrome pixel art quote

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  • monochrome

Visible Text

  • Ride
  • the
  • waves...
  • dont fight
  • them

Wordwall

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  • text reads 'Ride the waves... dont fight them'
  • all letters lowercase except 'Ride'
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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
20080930083038552800248
Archive entry
20080930083038552800248.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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