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Pixelated beach scene with palm tree and ocean on left; bright yellow with pink text 'Summer '09' and 'Beach at OBX' on right and bottom

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Pixelated beach scene with palm tree and ocean on left; bright yellow with pink text 'Summer '09' and 'Beach at OBX' on right and bottom

Pixelated beach scene with palm tree and ocean on left; bright yellow with pink text 'Summer '09' and 'Beach at OBX' on right and bottom. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • top-left beach scene
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left text
  • bottom-right solid

Dense Caption

The image is a four-quadrant composition. Top-left quadrant shows a pixelated beach scene with a palm tree extending from the top-left corner, blue sky, light blue ocean, and white sand. Top-right quadrant is solid bright yellow with pink pixelated text 'Summer '09'. Bottom-left quadrant is solid bright yellow with pink pixelated text 'Beach at OBX'. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. All text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated beach scene with palm tree and ocean on left; bright yellow with pink text 'Summer '09' and 'Beach at OBX' on right and bottom

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beach summer 09
  • beach at obx
  • summer 09 beach
  • obx beach icon
  • pixelated beach icon
  • yellow pink beach
  • beach scene pixel art
  • summer 09 text icon

Objects

  • palm tree

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated beach scene with palm tree and ocean on left; bright yellow panels with pink text 'Summer '09' and 'Beach at OBX' on right and bottom.
  • quarantined wordwall: gray panel
  • quarantined composition: bottom-right solid panel
  • quarantined composition: bottom-left text panel
  • quarantined composition: top-right text panel

Subjects

  • palm tree

Visible Text

  • Summer '09
  • Beach at OBX

Wordwall

  • beach scene
  • palm tree
  • ocean
  • white sand
  • bright yellow
  • pink text
  • Summer '09
  • Beach at OBX
  • gray
  • pixelated
  • four-quadrant
  • retro digital font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090527170118164523944
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8e/8e073288112f6f4df78ccf2540a98ae80ab3bf00e07b10f981f6ba3ead8816ff.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC
Archive ID
8e073288112f6f4d
SHA-256
8e073288112f6f4df78ccf2540a98ae80ab3bf00e07b10f981f6ba3ead8816ff
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 4, 2026 at 17:34 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000489

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:43 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated beach scene with palm tree and ocean on left; bright yellow with pink text 'Summer '09' and 'Beach at OBX' on right and bottom

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 10:50 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,409 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 767

Review tags

  • bright yellow (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • summery (mood, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • ocean (subject, 0.80)
  • palm tree (subject, 0.80)
  • sand (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • bright yellow
  • pink
  • gray
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • top-left beach scene
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left text
  • bottom-right solid

Dense Caption

The image is a four-quadrant composition. Top-left quadrant shows a pixelated beach scene with a palm tree extending from the top-left corner, blue sky, light blue ocean, and white sand. Top-right quadrant is solid bright yellow with pink pixelated text 'Summer '09'. Bottom-left quadrant is solid bright yellow with pink pixelated text 'Beach at OBX'. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. All text uses a blocky, retro digital font. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • Pixelated beach scene with palm tree and ocean on left; bright yellow with pink text 'Summer '09' and 'Beach at OBX' on right and bottom

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

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • summery

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beach summer 09
  • beach at obx
  • summer 09 beach
  • obx beach icon
  • pixelated beach icon
  • yellow pink beach
  • beach scene pixel art
  • summer 09 text icon

Objects

  • palm tree
  • ocean
  • sand
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated beach scene with palm tree and ocean on left; bright yellow panels with pink text 'Summer '09' and 'Beach at OBX' on right and bottom.
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  • quarantined composition: bottom-right solid panel
  • quarantined composition: bottom-left text panel
  • quarantined composition: top-right text panel

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  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • palm tree
  • ocean
  • sand

Visible Text

  • Summer '09
  • Beach at OBX

Wordwall

  • beach scene
  • palm tree
  • ocean
  • white sand
  • bright yellow
  • pink text
  • Summer '09
  • Beach at OBX
  • gray
  • pixelated
  • four-quadrant
  • retro digital font
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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
20090527170118164523944
Archive entry
20090527170118164523944.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 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#20090527170118164523944.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090527170118164523944.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016