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Pixelated beach scene with palm tree and ocean on left, green text on blue background reading "I wrote your name in the sand but the waves washed it away..." with heart symbol.

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Pixelated beach scene with palm tree and ocean on left, green text on blue background reading "I wrote your name in the sand but the waves washed it away..." with heart symbol.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split composition
  • left: beach scene
  • right: text on solid background

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated beach scene with palm tree branches extending over light blue sky, calm ocean, and sandy shore. Right side has solid bright blue background with green pixelated text: "I wrote your name" at top, "in the sand but the waves" below left, "washed it away..." below right, and a small green heart symbol next to "away...". Text uses blocky, low-resolution font. All elements are static.

Description

Pixelated beach scene with palm tree and ocean on left, green text on blue background reading "I wrote your name in the sand but the waves washed it away..." with heart symbol.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beach scene palm tree ocean sand waves
  • green text blue background heart symbol
  • I wrote your name in the sand but the waves washed it away
  • pixelated text heart symbol

Objects

  • palm tree
  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • palm tree
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I wrote your name
  • in the sand but the waves
  • washed it away...

Wordwall

  • beach scene
  • palm tree
  • ocean
  • sandy shore
  • bright blue background
  • green text
  • pixelated font
  • heart symbol
  • text: I wrote your name
  • text: in the sand but the waves
  • text: washed it away...
  • text: ...
  • text: heart symbol

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200906011440361338079155
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
3.1 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 15:58 UTC
Archive ID
a879296d2ad1d8ba
SHA-256
a879296d2ad1d8ba3b2f5996f2a48f3f4766dfc1439e431238c67e25aa352b1c
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:22 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.112149

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Pixelated beach scene with palm tree and ocean on left, green text on blue background reading "I wrote your name in the sand but the waves washed it away..." with heart symbol.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 11:13 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,230 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 719

Review tags

  • bright blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • ocean (subject, 0.80)
  • palm tree (subject, 0.80)
  • sand (subject, 0.80)
  • waves (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • bright blue
  • green
  • light blue
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • split composition
  • left: beach scene
  • right: text on solid background

Dense Caption

Left side shows pixelated beach scene with palm tree branches extending over light blue sky, calm ocean, and sandy shore. Right side has solid bright blue background with green pixelated text: "I wrote your name" at top, "in the sand but the waves" below left, "washed it away..." below right, and a small green heart symbol next to "away...". Text uses blocky, low-resolution font. All elements are static.

Description

Pixelated beach scene with palm tree and ocean on left, green text on blue background reading "I wrote your name in the sand but the waves washed it away..." with heart symbol.

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

Mood

  • melancholic
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beach scene palm tree ocean sand waves
  • green text blue background heart symbol
  • I wrote your name in the sand but the waves washed it away
  • pixelated text heart symbol

Objects

  • palm tree
  • ocean
  • sand
  • waves
  • heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • palm tree
  • ocean
  • sand
  • waves
  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • I wrote your name
  • in the sand but the waves
  • washed it away...

Wordwall

  • beach scene
  • palm tree
  • ocean
  • sandy shore
  • bright blue background
  • green text
  • pixelated font
  • heart symbol
  • text: I wrote your name
  • text: in the sand but the waves
  • text: washed it away...
  • text: ...
  • text: heart symbol
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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
200906011440361338079155
Archive entry
200906011440361338079155.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#200906011440361338079155.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200906011440361338079155.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016