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A pixelated image of a person in white clothing with pink hair, showing text that reads 'ice skating is life.'

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A pixelated image of a person in white clothing with pink hair, showing text that reads 'ice skating is life.'

A pixelated image of a person in white clothing with pink hair, showing text that reads 'ice skating is life.'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Actions

  • text change

Animation

  • text changes from 'ice skating' to 'is life.'

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from 'ice skating' to 'is life.'.

Composition

  • centered figure
  • bottom text

Dense Caption

The image shows a low-resolution, pixelated figure wearing light-colored clothing and having pink hair. The background appears dark. Text at the bottom displays 'ice skating' on the left side and 'is life.' on the right side in bright cyan letters. The text changes from 'ice skating' to 'is life.' across observations.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person in white clothing with pink hair, showing text that reads 'ice skating is life.'

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071203110712879722513

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ice skating is life
  • pink hair cyan text
  • pixelated figure dark background
  • text change animation

Visible Text

  • ice skating
  • is life.

Wordwall

  • pink hair
  • light-colored clothing
  • dark background
  • cyan text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071203110712879722513
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/d6/d6fe8e231b80e8d7a38ceb07ff3c09434b0f9815ca3b5092e7d4d08de3c5f47b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC
Archive ID
d6fe8e231b80e8d7
SHA-256
d6fe8e231b80e8d7a38ceb07ff3c09434b0f9815ca3b5092e7d4d08de3c5f47b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:49 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.313762

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image of a person in white clothing with pink hair, showing text that reads 'ice skating is life.'

Reviewed
July 30, 2026 at 22:51 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,276 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 613

Review tags

  • text change (action, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • text changes from ice skating to is life (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • person (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text change

Animation

  • text changes from 'ice skating' to 'is life.'

Animation Summary

  • Text changes from 'ice skating' to 'is life.'.

Colors

  • pink
  • white
  • dark
  • cyan

Composition

  • centered figure
  • bottom text

Dense Caption

The image shows a low-resolution, pixelated figure wearing light-colored clothing and having pink hair. The background appears dark. Text at the bottom displays 'ice skating' on the left side and 'is life.' on the right side in bright cyan letters. The text changes from 'ice skating' to 'is life.' across observations.

Description

  • A pixelated image of a person in white clothing with pink hair, showing text that reads 'ice skating is life.'

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071203110712879722513

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • ice skating is life
  • pink hair cyan text
  • pixelated figure dark background
  • text change animation

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • person

Visible Text

  • ice skating
  • is life.

Wordwall

  • pink hair
  • light-colored clothing
  • dark background
  • cyan text
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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
20071203110712879722513
Archive entry
20071203110712879722513.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 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#20071203110712879722513.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071203110712879722513.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016