Permanent icon record
Green pixelated text 'Surf or die trying.' appears on a black background with a circular gradient overlay that shifts position across frames.
Green pixelated text 'Surf or die trying.' appears on a black background with a circular gradient overlay that shifts position across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fro…
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Source & archive date
- Added to archive
- July 12, 2026
Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
- Source title
- 20070802182552262773631
- Era
- Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
- Observed
- July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Technical archive details
- Format
- GIF
- Dimensions
- 48×48 pixels
- File size
- 2.5 KB
- Motion
- Animated (4 frames)
- Added to archive
- July 12, 2026
- Relative path
- icons/9a/9ad9714a11460c55b1636dbce1641132f67cbe88f8be851cea7b988ea092555c.gif
- Media type
- image/gif
- Scanner metadata
- v1
- Animation inspected
- July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
- Archive ID
- 9ad9714a11460c55
- SHA-256
- 9ad9714a11460c55b1636dbce1641132f67cbe88f8be851cea7b988ea092555c
Content-safety assessments (1)
- Assessed
- July 23, 2026 at 19:15 UTC
- Run
- 1135
- Input
- image
- Preprocessing
- four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
- Overall label
- sfw
- Overall score
- 0.081416
OpenAI category scores
Enrichment records (2)
Green pixelated text 'Surf or die trying.' appears on a black background with a circular gradient overlay that shifts position across frames.
- Reviewed
- August 25, 2026 at 18:09 UTC
- Run
- 69
- Version
- v5
- Elapsed
- 9,733 ms
- Tokens
- prompt 2,109, response 828
Review tags
- black (color, 0.80)
- green (color, 0.80)
- white (color, 0.80)
- dynamic (mood, 0.80)
- mysterious (mood, 0.80)
- gradient overlay shifts position (other, 0.80)
- digital (style, 0.80)
- pixelated (style, 0.80)
- retro (style, 0.80)
Animation
- gradient overlay shifts position
Animation Summary
The circular gradient overlay shifts position , creating a spotlight effect that moves from top-right to bottom-left and back to top-right while the text remains static
Colors
- green
- black
- white
Composition
- text centered
- circular gradient overlay
Dense Caption
Green pixelated text 'Surf or die trying.' is displayed in four distinct frames. The first frame shows the text on a solid black background. The second frame shows the text with a circular gradient overlay that darkens the top-right corner. The third frame shows the text with a circular gradient overlay that darkens the bottom-left corner. The fourth frame shows the text with a circular gradient overlay that darkens the top-right corner. The gradient overlay is a smooth transition from white to black, creating a spotlight effect. The text remains static in all frames, with only the gradient overlay changing position.
Description
Green pixelated text 'Surf or die trying.' appears on a black background with a circular gradient overlay that shifts position across frames.
Metadata Not Confirmed By Image
- provenance collection-attribute: aim
- provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
- provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
- provenance topic-coverage: anime
- provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
- provenance topic-coverage: games
- provenance topic-coverage: holidays
- provenance topic-coverage: humor
Metadata Supported By Image
- provenance era: 2007
- provenance era: 2016
- provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
Mood
- mysterious
- dynamic
Non Redundant Search Phrases
- green pixelated text surf or die trying
- circular gradient overlay shifts position
- four distinct frames
- text remains static
- retro digital style
- mysterious dynamic mood
- black background white gradient
- pixelated retro text
Preprocessing Notes
- no upscaling detected
- no cropping detected
- quarantined animationSummary: The circular gradient overlay shifts position across four frames, creating a spotlight effect that moves from top-right to bottom-left and back to top-right while the text remains static.
Source Metadata Interpretation
- provenance era: 2007
- provenance era: 2016
- provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
- provenance collection-attribute: aim
- provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
- provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
- provenance topic-coverage: anime
- provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
- provenance topic-coverage: games
- provenance topic-coverage: holidays
- provenance topic-coverage: humor
Style
- pixelated
- retro
- digital
Visible Text
- Surf
- or
- die
- trying.
Wordwall
- green pixelated text
- Surf or die trying
- black background
- circular gradient overlay
- spotlight effect
- four distinct frames
- gradient shifts position
- text remains static
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}- Reviewed
- July 27, 2026 at 10:12 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)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
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
- 20070802182552262773631
- Archive entry
- 20070802182552262773631.gif
- Observed
- July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#20070802182552262773631.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070802182552262773631.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016