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Pixelated icon of a figure on a surfboard under a blue wave, with 'Surf' text below.

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Pixelated icon of a figure on a surfboard under a blue wave, with 'Surf' text below.

Pixelated icon of a figure on a surfboard under a blue wave, with 'Surf' text below. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs, Early-to-Mid…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three icons in
  • text below each icon

Dense Caption

The image shows three identical pixelated icons arranged in a grid. Each icon features a white circular head and torso with red lower body, positioned on a light gray surfboard beneath a large blue wave composed of varying shades of blue pixels. White foam is visible at the base of the wave. Below each icon, the word 'Surf' appears in black pixelated text. The background behind all icons is solid gray.

Description

  • Pixelated icon of a figure on a surfboard under a blue wave, with 'Surf' text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 27437
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 27437
  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • AIM
  • AOL IM
  • 2000s
  • Wayback Machine

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • surf icon pixel art
  • wave surfboard text Surf
  • blue wave white foam
  • pixelated figure red body

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three icons in grid layout

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • Surf

Wordwall

  • white head
  • red lower body
  • light gray surfboard
  • blue wave
  • white foam
  • black text
  • 'Surf'
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
27437
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/d1/d1e0638ee522f42125d465ea3a8d561e235eb854ce4ff60eb5a01ef1f95174ff.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:35 UTC
Archive ID
d1e0638ee522f421
SHA-256
d1e0638ee522f42125d465ea3a8d561e235eb854ce4ff60eb5a01ef1f95174ff
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:46 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079315

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924567onnx/unsafe0.079315onnx/nsfw0.045211onnx/nsfl0.034103
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Pixelated icon of a figure on a surfboard under a blue wave, with 'Surf' text below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:18 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,248 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,070, response 672

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • foam (object, 0.80)
  • surfboard (object, 0.80)
  • wave (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • red
  • light gray
  • blue
  • black

Composition

  • three icons in
  • text below each icon

Dense Caption

The image shows three identical pixelated icons arranged in a grid. Each icon features a white circular head and torso with red lower body, positioned on a light gray surfboard beneath a large blue wave composed of varying shades of blue pixels. White foam is visible at the base of the wave. Below each icon, the word 'Surf' appears in black pixelated text. The background behind all icons is solid gray.

Description

  • Pixelated icon of a figure on a surfboard under a blue wave, with 'Surf' text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 27437
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 27437
  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • Ballericons
  • AIM
  • AOL IM
  • 2000s
  • Wayback Machine

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • surf icon pixel art
  • wave surfboard text Surf
  • blue wave white foam
  • pixelated figure red body

Objects

  • surfboard
  • wave
  • foam

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three icons in grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • Surf

Wordwall

  • white head
  • red lower body
  • light gray surfboard
  • blue wave
  • white foam
  • black text
  • 'Surf'
  • pixelated
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Full source records (1)

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs (wayback-ballericons-icon-path-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration from the portal's primary /icon/ namespace
Category
icon
Alt
27437
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:35 UTC
Rights
mixed portal and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large humor, attitude, college, celebrity, video-game, holiday, and sports buddy-icon portal

Original: http://ballericons.com/icon/27437.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010816221421id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/27437.gif