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Pixelated image of a person snowboarding with arms outstretched against a snowy background, next to blue text reading "snow is amazing".

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Pixelated image of a person snowboarding with arms outstretched against a snowy background, next to blue text reading "snow is amazing".

Pixelated image of a person snowboarding with arms outstretched against a snowy background, next to blue text reading "snow is amazing". Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Int…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split-screen left-right
  • text on right
  • figure on left

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated figure in dark top and light pants performing aerial snowboard trick on blue board; white snow and sky background. Right side has solid cyan background with black pixelated text: "snow" (top), "is" (middle), "amazing" (bottom). Text includes partial character "ily" below "amazing" with heart symbol <3.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person snowboarding with arms outstretched against a snowy background, next to blue text reading "snow is amazing".

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snowboarding pixel art
  • cyan background snow text
  • amazing ily <3 icon
  • pixelated snowboard trick

Visible Text

  • snow
  • is
  • amazing
  • ily
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • person
  • snowboard

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • snowboarding
  • aerial trick
  • dark top
  • light pants
  • blue snowboard
  • white snow background
  • cyan text background
  • black pixelated text
  • snow is amazing
  • ily <3

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071213102339135500953
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7d/7d692300c9ad24653d71286bd76db8e7eed928a853558b28dea6017aa46a4a23.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 UTC
Archive ID
7d692300c9ad2465
SHA-256
7d692300c9ad24653d71286bd76db8e7eed928a853558b28dea6017aa46a4a23
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:16 UTC
Run
1081
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.155272

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of a person snowboarding with arms outstretched against a snowy background, next to blue text reading "snow is amazing".

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 01:35 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,088 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 615

Review tags

  • snowboarding (action, 0.80)
  • trick (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)
  • snowboard (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • snowboarding
  • trick

Colors

  • cyan
  • black
  • white
  • blue
  • dark gray
  • light gray

Composition

  • split-screen left-right
  • text on right
  • figure on left

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated figure in dark top and light pants performing aerial snowboard trick on blue board; white snow and sky background. Right side has solid cyan background with black pixelated text: "snow" (top), "is" (middle), "amazing" (bottom). Text includes partial character "ily" below "amazing" with heart symbol <3.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a person snowboarding with arms outstretched against a snowy background, next to blue text reading "snow is amazing".

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

Mood

  • energetic
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • snowboarding pixel art
  • cyan background snow text
  • amazing ily <3 icon
  • pixelated snowboard trick

Objects

  • snowboard

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • person
  • snowboard

Visible Text

  • snow
  • is
  • amazing
  • ily
  • <3

Visually Supported Entities

  • person
  • snowboard

Wordwall

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  • snowboarding
  • aerial trick
  • dark top
  • light pants
  • blue snowboard
  • white snow background
  • cyan text background
  • black pixelated text
  • snow is amazing
  • ily <3
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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
20071213102339135500953
Archive entry
20071213102339135500953.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:04 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#20071213102339135500953.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071213102339135500953.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016