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Pixelated wave graphic on left, bright cyan background with blue pixel text 'Surfing USA!!!' on right.

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Pixelated wave graphic on left, bright cyan background with blue pixel text 'Surfing USA!!!' on right.

Pixelated wave graphic on left, bright cyan background with blue pixel text 'Surfing USA!!!' on right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split composition: left wave, right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated ocean wave in shades of blue and white against a light blue sky. Right side features solid cyan background with bold blue pixelated text reading "Surfing" above "USA!!!". The image has low-resolution, blocky pixels typical of early digital graphics. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated wave graphic on left, bright cyan background with blue pixel text 'Surfing USA!!!' on right.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200804051508431562926531

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • surfing usa pixel art
  • cyan background wave text
  • pixelated ocean surfing icon
  • blue text surf wave

Visible Text

  • Surfing
  • USA!!!

Wordwall

  • pixelated wave
  • cyan background
  • blue pixel text
  • Surfing USA!!!
  • low resolution
  • ocean scene

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804051508431562926531
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 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 15:22 UTC
Archive ID
d3a98e0266dc02bc
SHA-256
d3a98e0266dc02bc43779efd8653cad0021dc69a4898e0c12a35dd7a506d8dda
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 00:02 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000030

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:47 UTC
Run
1140
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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Pixelated wave graphic on left, bright cyan background with blue pixel text 'Surfing USA!!!' on right.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 23:56 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,143 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 580

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • energetic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • wave (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • blue
  • white
  • light blue

Composition

  • split composition: left wave, right text

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated ocean wave in shades of blue and white against a light blue sky. Right side features solid cyan background with bold blue pixelated text reading "Surfing" above "USA!!!". The image has low-resolution, blocky pixels typical of early digital graphics. No visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated wave graphic on left, bright cyan background with blue pixel text 'Surfing USA!!!' on right.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200804051508431562926531

Mood

  • energetic
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • surfing usa pixel art
  • cyan background wave text
  • pixelated ocean surfing icon
  • blue text surf wave

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution graphics

Subjects

  • wave

Visible Text

  • Surfing
  • USA!!!

Wordwall

  • pixelated wave
  • cyan background
  • blue pixel text
  • Surfing USA!!!
  • low resolution
  • ocean scene
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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
200804051508431562926531
Archive entry
200804051508431562926531.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 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#200804051508431562926531.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804051508431562926531.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016