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Pixelated beach scene with palm trees and water on left; blue background with black pixel text reading "when you walk away" above "i count the steps that you take" and a winking emoticon.

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Pixelated beach scene with palm trees and water on left; blue background with black pixel text reading "when you walk away" above "i count the steps that you take" and a winking emoticon.

Pixelated beach scene with palm trees and water on left; blue background with black pixel text reading "when you walk away" above "i count the steps that you take" and a winking e…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split composition: left beach, right text
  • text aligned top-right and bottom-left
  • solid background on right

Dense Caption

Left side shows low-resolution pixel art of a tropical beach: light brown sand, white waves, green palm fronds against pale blue sky. Right side has solid bright blue background with black pixelated text in three lines: "when you walk away" (top), "i count the steps that you take" (middle-left), and "/3" (bottom-right). Text uses blocky 8-bit font style typical of early digital graphics. All elements are static; no animation observed.

Description

Pixelated beach scene with palm trees and water on left; blue background with black pixel text reading "when you walk away" above "i count the steps that you take" and a winking emoticon.

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
  • 200712080657361471147263

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beach scene pixel art
  • when you walk away text
  • i count the steps that you take
  • winking emoticon beach icon
  • pixelated palm trees waves
  • blue background text icon
  • 8-bit graphics nostalgic icon
  • text and landscape buddy icon

Style

  • 8-bit graphics

Visible Text

  • when you walk away
  • i count the steps that you take
  • </3

Wordwall

  • beach scene
  • palm trees
  • white waves
  • bright blue background
  • pixelated text
  • when you walk away
  • i count the steps that you take
  • /3 emoticon

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712080657361471147263
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC
Archive ID
7c87ca4334f57c5b
SHA-256
7c87ca4334f57c5b0a6b27f5490b3fbd8544a348a53c0552dee6d339e5b1630d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:13 UTC
Run
1075
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.190728

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Pixelated beach scene with palm trees and water on left; blue background with black pixel text reading "when you walk away" above "i count the steps that you take" and a winking emoticon.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 00:09 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,569 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 747

Review tags

  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful emoticon (mood, 0.80)
  • palm trees (object, 0.80)
  • sand (object, 0.80)
  • water (object, 0.80)
  • waves (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit graphics (style, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • beach landscape (subject, 0.80)
  • text elements (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • bright blue
  • white
  • light brown
  • green
  • black

Composition

  • split composition: left beach, right text
  • text aligned top-right and bottom-left
  • solid background on right

Dense Caption

Left side shows low-resolution pixel art of a tropical beach: light brown sand, white waves, green palm fronds against pale blue sky. Right side has solid bright blue background with black pixelated text in three lines: "when you walk away" (top), "i count the steps that you take" (middle-left), and "/3" (bottom-right). Text uses blocky 8-bit font style typical of early digital graphics. All elements are static; no animation observed.

Description

Pixelated beach scene with palm trees and water on left; blue background with black pixel text reading "when you walk away" above "i count the steps that you take" and a winking emoticon.

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
  • 200712080657361471147263

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • melancholic
  • playful (emoticon)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • when you walk away text
  • i count the steps that you take
  • winking emoticon beach icon
  • pixelated palm trees waves
  • blue background text icon
  • 8-bit graphics nostalgic icon
  • text and landscape buddy icon

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  • palm trees
  • sand
  • water
  • waves

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit graphics
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • beach landscape
  • text elements

Visible Text

  • when you walk away
  • i count the steps that you take
  • </3

Wordwall

  • beach scene
  • palm trees
  • white waves
  • bright blue background
  • pixelated text
  • when you walk away
  • i count the steps that you take
  • /3 emoticon
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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
200712080657361471147263
Archive entry
200712080657361471147263.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 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#200712080657361471147263.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712080657361471147263.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016