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Pixelated icon shows a yellow figure with a white helmet surfing on a gray wave against a blue background with white spray.

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Pixelated icon shows a yellow figure with a white helmet surfing on a gray wave against a blue background with white spray.

Pixelated icon shows a yellow figure with a white helmet surfing on a gray wave against a blue background with white spray. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Nativ…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central figure
  • text below
  • solid background
  • wave with spray

Dense Caption

Pixelated 8-bit style icon with a gray background. Central figure is yellow with black outlines, wearing a white helmet with a black rim, positioned on a gray wave. The wave has dark blue outlines and three dark blue lines extending downward. Behind the wave is a solid blue background with white pixelated spray on the right. Below the icon, the word 'Surfing' is rendered in black and white pixelated text. The figure's pose shows a bent arm and leg, suggesting motion. The overall style is retro digital with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated icon shows a yellow figure with a white helmet surfing on a gray wave against a blue background with white spray.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • surfing yellow figure
  • surfing helmet wave
  • surfing pixelated text
  • surfing blue background
  • surfing yellow helmet
  • surfing gray wave
  • surfing white spray
  • surfing 8-bit style

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 8062
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 8062
  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

Visible Text

  • Surfing

Wordwall

  • yellow figure
  • white helmet
  • gray wave
  • blue background
  • white spray
  • surfing pose
  • pixelated text
  • 8-bit style
  • bent arm
  • bent leg
  • dark blue lines
  • black outlines
  • limited color palette
  • gray background
  • white text
  • surfing
  • wave
  • helmet
  • yellow
  • blue
  • gray
  • white
  • black
  • pixelated
  • text
  • motion
  • figure
  • pose
  • background
  • spray
  • lines
  • 8-bit
  • style
  • color palette

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
8062
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:43 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/ee/eed3276a7570a0ad4d5ed3e796d2414aee26a6ef8025d7e61763add0d9f7e7e6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 07:43 UTC
Archive ID
eed3276a7570a0ad
SHA-256
eed3276a7570a0ad4d5ed3e796d2414aee26a6ef8025d7e61763add0d9f7e7e6
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:01 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081568

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.918432onnx/unsafe0.081568onnx/nsfw0.050336onnx/nsfl0.031232
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated icon shows a yellow figure with a white helmet surfing on a gray wave against a blue background with white spray.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 09:34 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,952 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,050, response 960

Review tags

  • surfing (action, 0.80)
  • active (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blue background (object, 0.80)
  • dark blue lines (object, 0.80)
  • gray wave (object, 0.80)
  • white spray (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • white helmet (subject, 0.80)
  • yellow figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • surfing

Colors

  • yellow
  • white
  • gray
  • blue
  • black

Composition

  • central figure
  • text below
  • solid background
  • wave with spray

Dense Caption

Pixelated 8-bit style icon with a gray background. Central figure is yellow with black outlines, wearing a white helmet with a black rim, positioned on a gray wave. The wave has dark blue outlines and three dark blue lines extending downward. Behind the wave is a solid blue background with white pixelated spray on the right. Below the icon, the word 'Surfing' is rendered in black and white pixelated text. The figure's pose shows a bent arm and leg, suggesting motion. The overall style is retro digital with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated icon shows a yellow figure with a white helmet surfing on a gray wave against a blue background with white spray.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • active
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • surfing yellow figure
  • surfing helmet wave
  • surfing pixelated text
  • surfing blue background
  • surfing yellow helmet
  • surfing gray wave
  • surfing white spray
  • surfing 8-bit style

Objects

  • gray wave
  • blue background
  • white spray
  • dark blue lines

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected
  • static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 8062
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 8062
  • 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • yellow figure
  • white helmet

Visible Text

  • Surfing

Wordwall

  • yellow figure
  • white helmet
  • gray wave
  • blue background
  • white spray
  • surfing pose
  • pixelated text
  • 8-bit style
  • bent arm
  • bent leg
  • dark blue lines
  • black outlines
  • limited color palette
  • gray background
  • white text
  • surfing
  • wave
  • helmet
  • yellow
  • blue
  • gray
  • white
  • black
  • pixelated
  • text
  • motion
  • figure
  • pose
  • background
  • spray
  • lines
  • 8-bit
  • style
  • color palette
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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
8062
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 07:43 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://www.ballericons.com/icon/8062.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010612140547id_/http://www.ballericons.com:80/icon/8062.gif