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Pixelated image of a skier mid-air with crossed skis against a snowy landscape, surrounded by blue text blocks.

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Pixelated image of a skier mid-air with crossed skis against a snowy landscape, surrounded by blue text blocks.

Pixelated image of a skier mid-air with crossed skis against a snowy landscape, surrounded by blue text blocks. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four blue text blocks
  • skier in top-left quadrant
  • text blocks surrounding skier

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a skier in mid-air with crossed skis, wearing a dark jacket with orange stripes and a helmet, against a snowy landscape with a bright sky. The image is divided into four blue text blocks with cyan pixelated text: top-right reads "I LUV 2 SKI!!", bottom-left reads "IT IS AWESOME!!!", bottom-right reads "U SHULD TRY IT!!!". The skier's pose is dynamic with bent knees and ski poles. The background features snow-covered ground and a light blue sky with white clouds. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a skier mid-air with crossed skis against a snowy landscape, surrounded by blue text blocks.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • skier crossed skis snowy landscape
  • I LUV 2 SKI IT IS AWESOME U SHULD TRY IT
  • cyan text blue background pixelated
  • retro digital art skier dynamic pose
  • skis ski poles helmet jacket
  • blue text blocks snow-covered ground
  • enthusiastic energetic mood
  • bent knees ski poles orange stripes jacket

Visible Text

  • I LUV 2 SKI!!
  • IT IS AWESOME!!!
  • U SHULD TRY IT!!!

Wordwall

  • skier
  • crossed skis
  • snowy landscape
  • cyan text
  • blue background
  • pixelated
  • I LUV 2 SKI!!
  • IT IS AWESOME!!!
  • U SHULD TRY IT!!!
  • dark jacket with orange stripes
  • helmet
  • bent knees
  • ski poles
  • light blue sky
  • white clouds
  • snow-covered ground
  • retro digital art
  • dynamic pose
  • text blocks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708190908231839875596
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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/70/70ef852f36064833606f6d914895bc47a32970258431c0049d8c14931b4715b6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
70ef852f36064833
SHA-256
70ef852f36064833606f6d914895bc47a32970258431c0049d8c14931b4715b6
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:55 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.102528

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a skier mid-air with crossed skis against a snowy landscape, surrounded by blue text blocks.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 02:04 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,824 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,117, response 859

Review tags

  • bent knees (action, 0.80)
  • mid air (action, 0.80)
  • skiing (action, 0.80)
  • energetic (mood, 0.80)
  • enthusiastic (mood, 0.80)
  • helmet (object, 0.80)
  • jacket (object, 0.80)
  • ski poles (object, 0.80)
  • skis (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital art (style, 0.80)
  • skier (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • skiing
  • mid-air
  • bent knees

Colors

  • cyan
  • blue
  • white
  • gray
  • orange
  • black

Composition

  • four blue text blocks
  • skier in top-left quadrant
  • text blocks surrounding skier

Dense Caption

Pixelated image shows a skier in mid-air with crossed skis, wearing a dark jacket with orange stripes and a helmet, against a snowy landscape with a bright sky. The image is divided into four blue text blocks with cyan pixelated text: top-right reads "I LUV 2 SKI!!", bottom-left reads "IT IS AWESOME!!!", bottom-right reads "U SHULD TRY IT!!!". The skier's pose is dynamic with bent knees and ski poles. The background features snow-covered ground and a light blue sky with white clouds. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a skier mid-air with crossed skis against a snowy landscape, surrounded by blue text blocks.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • enthusiastic
  • energetic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • skier crossed skis snowy landscape
  • I LUV 2 SKI IT IS AWESOME U SHULD TRY IT
  • cyan text blue background pixelated
  • retro digital art skier dynamic pose
  • skis ski poles helmet jacket
  • blue text blocks snow-covered ground
  • enthusiastic energetic mood
  • bent knees ski poles orange stripes jacket

Objects

  • skis
  • ski poles
  • helmet
  • jacket

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital art

Subjects

  • skier

Visible Text

  • I LUV 2 SKI!!
  • IT IS AWESOME!!!
  • U SHULD TRY IT!!!

Wordwall

  • skier
  • crossed skis
  • snowy landscape
  • cyan text
  • blue background
  • pixelated
  • I LUV 2 SKI!!
  • IT IS AWESOME!!!
  • U SHULD TRY IT!!!
  • dark jacket with orange stripes
  • helmet
  • bent knees
  • ski poles
  • light blue sky
  • white clouds
  • snow-covered ground
  • retro digital art
  • dynamic pose
  • text blocks
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:10 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)
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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
200708190908231839875596
Archive entry
200708190908231839875596.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#200708190908231839875596.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708190908231839875596.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016