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A beach scene with waves and sand, featuring the text 'summer 2008' at the bottom.

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A beach scene with waves and sand, featuring the text 'summer 2008' at the bottom.

A beach scene with waves and sand, featuring the text 'summer 2008' at the bottom. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-20…

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Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes across observations

Composition

  • horizontal bands of water and sand
  • text centered below landscape

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated beach landscape with horizontal bands of light blue water and grayish-brown sand. Two identical instances of the phrase 'summer 2008' appear in dark brown or black sans-serif font, positioned below the sand area on both left and right panels. The overall resolution is low, creating a blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A beach scene with waves and sand, featuring the text 'summer 2008' at the bottom.

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
  • 200803301622041268492094

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beach summer 2008
  • pixelated beach text
  • low-resolution water sand
  • summer 2008 pixel art

Visible Text

  • summer 2008

Wordwall

  • beach
  • waves
  • sand
  • water
  • text 'summer 2008'
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • horizontal bands

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803301622041268492094
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.3 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d6/d6911103a479a1380e7b85e25bef9f0b8ac271ddd6caf51cd2f9e93e633d936a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 UTC
Archive ID
d6911103a479a138
SHA-256
d6911103a479a1380e7b85e25bef9f0b8ac271ddd6caf51cd2f9e93e633d936a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:48 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.135450

OpenAI category scores

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A beach scene with waves and sand, featuring the text 'summer 2008' at the bottom.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 21:39 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,446 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 632

Review tags

  • dark brown black (color, 0.80)
  • grayish brown (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • ocean waves (object, 0.80)
  • sand (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital art (style, 0.80)
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  • beach landscape (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes across observations

Colors

  • light blue
  • grayish-brown
  • dark brown/black

Composition

  • horizontal bands of water and sand
  • text centered below landscape

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated beach landscape with horizontal bands of light blue water and grayish-brown sand. Two identical instances of the phrase 'summer 2008' appear in dark brown or black sans-serif font, positioned below the sand area on both left and right panels. The overall resolution is low, creating a blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A beach scene with waves and sand, featuring the text 'summer 2008' at the bottom.

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
  • 200803301622041268492094

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beach summer 2008
  • pixelated beach text
  • low-resolution water sand
  • summer 2008 pixel art

Objects

  • ocean waves
  • sand
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution digital art

Subjects

  • beach landscape

Visible Text

  • summer 2008

Wordwall

  • beach
  • waves
  • sand
  • water
  • text 'summer 2008'
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • horizontal bands
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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
200803301622041268492094
Archive entry
200803301622041268492094.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:21 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#200803301622041268492094.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803301622041268492094.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016