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Pixelated image of a surfer riding a wave with blue text on a bright cyan background.

Pixelated image of a surfer riding a wave with blue text on a bright cyan background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four text sections surrounding central image
  • text positioned top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right
  • central image occupies upper left quadrant

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated scene where a small figure rides a large, curling ocean wave. The wave is rendered in shades of turquoise and dark purple against a light blue sky. Text appears in four sections: top-right reads "countin the days (112,111,110)"; bottom-left reads "for that time of year"; bottom-right reads "to catch that perfect wave". All text is displayed in a pixelated font with dark blue characters on a bright cyan background. The image has low resolution typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a surfer riding a wave with blue text on a bright cyan background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 200711061217091873218893

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • surfer wave ocean cyan background
  • countin the days 112,111,110
  • for that time of year to catch perfect wave
  • pixelated text surfer riding wave

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears static; no visible animation changes detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Visible Text

  • countin the days (112,111,110)
  • for that time of year
  • to catch that perfect wave

Visually Supported Entities

  • surfer
  • wave

Wordwall

  • surfer
  • wave
  • ocean
  • cyan background
  • pixelated text
  • 112,111,110
  • for that time of year
  • to catch that perfect wave

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711061217091873218893
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6e/6e15626cdce9c7e264052e5848efa8c19ff16ef66e7c21500f674142dde5f14d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC
Archive ID
6e15626cdce9c7e2
SHA-256
6e15626cdce9c7e264052e5848efa8c19ff16ef66e7c21500f674142dde5f14d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:53 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.119921

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a surfer riding a wave with blue text on a bright cyan background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,174 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 850

Review tags

  • riding (action, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • turquoise (color, 0.80)
  • calm (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • ocean (object, 0.80)
  • sky (object, 0.80)
  • digital art (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • surfer (subject, 0.80)
  • wave (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • riding

Colors

  • cyan
  • turquoise
  • dark purple
  • light blue
  • dark blue

Composition

  • four text sections surrounding central image
  • text positioned top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right
  • central image occupies upper left quadrant

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated scene where a small figure rides a large, curling ocean wave. The wave is rendered in shades of turquoise and dark purple against a light blue sky. Text appears in four sections: top-right reads "countin the days (112,111,110)"; bottom-left reads "for that time of year"; bottom-right reads "to catch that perfect wave". All text is displayed in a pixelated font with dark blue characters on a bright cyan background. The image has low resolution typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a surfer riding a wave with blue text on a bright cyan background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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
  • 200711061217091873218893

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • calm
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • surfer wave ocean cyan background
  • countin the days 112,111,110
  • for that time of year to catch perfect wave
  • pixelated text surfer riding wave

Objects

  • ocean
  • sky

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears static; no visible animation changes detected

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital art

Subjects

  • surfer
  • wave

Visible Text

  • countin the days (112,111,110)
  • for that time of year
  • to catch that perfect wave

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  • surfer
  • wave

Wordwall

  • surfer
  • wave
  • ocean
  • cyan background
  • pixelated text
  • 112,111,110
  • for that time of year
  • to catch that perfect wave
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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
200711061217091873218893
Archive entry
200711061217091873218893.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 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#200711061217091873218893.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711061217091873218893.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016