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Pixelated beach scene with palm tree and ocean on left, bright cyan background with blue text 'Live to surf' on right.

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Pixelated beach scene with palm tree and ocean on left, bright cyan background with blue text 'Live to surf' on right.

Pixelated beach scene with palm tree and ocean on left, bright cyan background with blue text 'Live to surf' on right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no animation observed

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left beach
  • right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated beach scene with light blue sky, green palm tree with white trunk, light blue ocean, and white sand. Right side has solid bright cyan background with blue pixelated text 'Live' at top, 'to' in middle, 'surf' at bottom. Text is sans-serif, all lowercase except 'L' in 'Live'.

Description

  • Pixelated beach scene with palm tree and ocean on left, bright cyan background with blue text 'Live to surf' 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beach palm tree ocean sand
  • cyan background blue text
  • Live to surf text
  • pixelated beach scene
  • surfing vacation icon
  • low-resolution beach icon
  • beach scene cyan text
  • surfing text icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed in static image

Visible Text

  • Live
  • to
  • surf

Wordwall

  • beach scene
  • palm tree
  • ocean
  • sand
  • cyan background
  • blue text
  • pixelated
  • sans-serif text
  • 'Live'
  • 'to'
  • 'surf'
  • light blue sky
  • white trunk
  • green fronds
  • light blue water
  • white sand

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707291153471359694063
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6d/6dc0e0b8019a7e81b5fca3830838a6b991ca6d8d86c87a3809bb55bee30c0cba.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
6dc0e0b8019a7e81
SHA-256
6dc0e0b8019a7e81b5fca3830838a6b991ca6d8d86c87a3809bb55bee30c0cba
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 25, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Run
1343
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000027

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagsexual0.000027falseharassment0.000003falseself-harm0.000002falseviolence0.000002falseillicit0.000001falseviolence/graphic0.000001falsehate0.000001falseself-harm/intent0.000001falsesexual/minors0.000001falseharassment/threatening0.000000falseself-harm/instructions0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000false

Qwen scheduling evidence

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

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 8, 2026 at 04:13 UTC
Run
1275
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000544

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.000544falseself-harm0.000463falsesexual0.000034falseself-harm/intent0.000005falseviolence/graphic0.000005falseself-harm/instructions0.000003falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:26 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.226414

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.901968onnx/unsafe0.226414onnx/nsfw0.179931onnx/nsfl0.046483
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated beach scene with palm tree and ocean on left, bright cyan background with blue text 'Live to surf' on right.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,219 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 616

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • relaxed (mood, 0.80)
  • surfing (mood, 0.80)
  • vacation (mood, 0.80)
  • graphic (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • simplified (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no animation observed

Colors

  • cyan
  • blue
  • light blue
  • green
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • split-screen
  • left beach
  • right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated beach scene with light blue sky, green palm tree with white trunk, light blue ocean, and white sand. Right side has solid bright cyan background with blue pixelated text 'Live' at top, 'to' in middle, 'surf' at bottom. Text is sans-serif, all lowercase except 'L' in 'Live'.

Description

  • Pixelated beach scene with palm tree and ocean on left, bright cyan background with blue text 'Live to surf' 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • relaxed
  • vacation
  • surfing

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beach palm tree ocean sand
  • cyan background blue text
  • Live to surf text
  • pixelated beach scene
  • surfing vacation icon
  • low-resolution beach icon
  • beach scene cyan text
  • surfing text icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed in static image

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • simplified
  • graphic

Visible Text

  • Live
  • to
  • surf

Wordwall

  • beach scene
  • palm tree
  • ocean
  • sand
  • cyan background
  • blue text
  • pixelated
  • sans-serif text
  • 'Live'
  • 'to'
  • 'surf'
  • light blue sky
  • white trunk
  • green fronds
  • light blue water
  • white sand
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:41 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)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200707291153471359694063
Archive entry
200707291153471359694063.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#200707291153471359694063.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707291153471359694063.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016