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Pixelated image of a skier in mid-air with crossed skis against a snowy background, surrounded by green text on purple.

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Pixelated image of a skier in mid-air with crossed skis against a snowy background, surrounded by green text on purple.

Pixelated image of a skier in mid-air with crossed skis against a snowy background, surrounded by green text on purple. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fra…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • skier on left
  • text on purple background
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left text
  • bottom-right text

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 blue sky and white clouds. The background is a solid purple field with green pixelated text: 'SKIING' at top right, 'RULES THE' at bottom left, and 'SNOW' at bottom right. The skier's pose is dynamic with bent knees and arms extended. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a skier in mid-air with crossed skis against a snowy background, surrounded by green text on purple.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • skier crossed skis snow
  • purple background green text skiing
  • skiing rules the snow
  • pixelated skier dynamic pose
  • green text skiing rules the snow
  • skier helmet orange stripes
  • snowy landscape blue sky clouds
  • text 'SKIING' 'RULES THE' 'SNOW'

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • SKIING
  • RULES THE
  • SNOW

Wordwall

  • skier
  • crossed skis
  • snowy landscape
  • blue sky
  • white clouds
  • dark jacket
  • orange stripes
  • helmet
  • green text
  • purple background
  • pixelated
  • dynamic pose
  • bent knees
  • extended arms
  • text 'SKIING'
  • text 'RULES THE'
  • text 'SNOW'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080302132316648154601
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
9e93275c05d3cebf
SHA-256
9e93275c05d3cebf5b39c8987408198ec90f839e3f42b49cb6f59f3cc79dcfd8
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:17 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.104337

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a skier in mid-air with crossed skis against a snowy background, surrounded by green text on purple.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 14:33 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
3,831 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 790

Review tags

  • crossed skis (action, 0.80)
  • mid air (action, 0.80)
  • skiing (action, 0.80)
  • active (mood, 0.80)
  • dynamic (mood, 0.80)
  • helmet (object, 0.80)
  • jacket (object, 0.80)
  • skis (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • skier (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • skiing
  • mid-air
  • crossed skis

Colors

  • purple
  • green
  • blue
  • white
  • black
  • orange

Composition

  • skier on left
  • text on purple background
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left text
  • bottom-right text

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 blue sky and white clouds. The background is a solid purple field with green pixelated text: 'SKIING' at top right, 'RULES THE' at bottom left, and 'SNOW' at bottom right. The skier's pose is dynamic with bent knees and arms extended. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a skier in mid-air with crossed skis against a snowy background, surrounded by green text on purple.

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

Mood

  • active
  • dynamic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • purple background green text skiing
  • skiing rules the snow
  • pixelated skier dynamic pose
  • green text skiing rules the snow
  • skier helmet orange stripes
  • snowy landscape blue sky clouds
  • text 'SKIING' 'RULES THE' 'SNOW'

Objects

  • skis
  • helmet
  • jacket

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • skier

Visible Text

  • SKIING
  • RULES THE
  • SNOW

Wordwall

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  • crossed skis
  • snowy landscape
  • blue sky
  • white clouds
  • dark jacket
  • orange stripes
  • helmet
  • green text
  • purple background
  • pixelated
  • dynamic pose
  • bent knees
  • extended arms
  • text 'SKIING'
  • text 'RULES THE'
  • text 'SNOW'
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:37 UTC
Run
56
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)
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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
20080302132316648154601
Archive entry
20080302132316648154601.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#20080302132316648154601.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080302132316648154601.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016