Buddy Icon Archive Preserving the tiny pictures that made the internet personal.
Blue background with green pixelated text reading 'surfing is love' and a light blue pixelated heart symbol above the text.

Permanent icon record

Blue background with green pixelated text reading 'surfing is love' and a light blue pixelated heart symbol above the text.

Blue background with green pixelated text reading 'surfing is love' and a light blue pixelated heart symbol above the text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

A visual description has not been added yet. The archival record below is still available.

Download original

About this icon

Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered heart above text
  • text arranged in three lines
  • blue background

Dense Caption

Blue background with green pixelated text reading 'surfing is love' in three lines; light blue pixelated heart symbol positioned above the text. The text and heart are rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style with visible pixelation. The heart symbol is a simple outline shape. The text uses a blocky, monospaced font typical of early digital displays. The green text has a slight horizontal blur effect on the right side of each letter. The heart symbol is centered horizontally above the word 'surfing'.

Description

  • Blue background with green pixelated text reading 'surfing is love' and a light blue pixelated heart symbol above the text.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • surfing is love pixelated heart
  • blue background green text heart
  • retro digital surfing love
  • pixelated heart surfing text
  • green text blue background heart
  • surfing love pixelated heart
  • heart above surfing text
  • blue background pixelated heart

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • surfing
  • is
  • love

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • green pixelated text
  • surfing is love
  • light blue heart symbol
  • pixelated heart outline
  • retro digital style
  • blocky monospaced font
  • horizontal blur on text
  • centered heart above text

Explore related icons

Browse all categories · How source collections are preserved

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807011014011379474288
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
798 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f8/f87b486398d08ad4562c3949eeb31cd0a911386286edcad8bfe1224729c63a23.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
f87b486398d08ad4
SHA-256
f87b486398d08ad4562c3949eeb31cd0a911386286edcad8bfe1224729c63a23
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:06 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072946

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.928178onnx/unsafe0.072946onnx/nsfw0.037753onnx/nsfl0.035193
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Blue background with green pixelated text reading 'surfing is love' and a light blue pixelated heart symbol above the text.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 09:52 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,014 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 730

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • positive (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky monospaced font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • heart symbol (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • light blue

Composition

  • centered heart above text
  • text arranged in three lines
  • blue background

Dense Caption

Blue background with green pixelated text reading 'surfing is love' in three lines; light blue pixelated heart symbol positioned above the text. The text and heart are rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style with visible pixelation. The heart symbol is a simple outline shape. The text uses a blocky, monospaced font typical of early digital displays. The green text has a slight horizontal blur effect on the right side of each letter. The heart symbol is centered horizontally above the word 'surfing'.

Description

  • Blue background with green pixelated text reading 'surfing is love' and a light blue pixelated heart symbol above the text.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Mood

  • positive
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • surfing is love pixelated heart
  • blue background green text heart
  • retro digital surfing love
  • pixelated heart surfing text
  • green text blue background heart
  • surfing love pixelated heart
  • heart above surfing text
  • blue background pixelated heart

Objects

  • heart symbol
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • blocky monospaced font

Subjects

  • heart symbol
  • text

Visible Text

  • surfing
  • is
  • love

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • green pixelated text
  • surfing is love
  • light blue heart symbol
  • pixelated heart outline
  • retro digital style
  • blocky monospaced font
  • horizontal blur on text
  • centered heart above text
Raw JSON
{
  "inputIndex": 0,
  "sha256": "f87b486398d08ad4562c3949eeb31cd0a911386286edcad8bfe1224729c63a23",
  "description": "Blue background with green pixelated text reading \u0027surfing is love\u0027 and a light blue pixelated heart symbol above the text.",
  "denseCaption": "Blue background with green pixelated text reading \u0027surfing is love\u0027 in three lines; light blue pixelated heart symbol positioned above the text. The text and heart are rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style with visible pixelation. The heart symbol is a simple outline shape. The text uses a blocky, monospaced font typical of early digital displays. The green text has a slight horizontal blur effect on the right side of each letter. The heart symbol is centered horizontally above the word \u0027surfing\u0027.",
  "wordwall": [
    "blue background",
    "green pixelated text",
    "surfing is love",
    "light blue heart symbol",
    "pixelated heart outline",
    "retro digital style",
    "blocky monospaced font",
    "horizontal blur on text",
    "centered heart above text"
  ],
  "visibleText": [
    "surfing",
    "is",
    "love"
  ],
  "uncertainText": [],
  "subjects": [
    "heart symbol",
    "text"
  ],
  "actions": [],
  "objects": [
    "heart symbol",
    "text"
  ],
  "colors": [
    "blue",
    "green",
    "light blue"
  ],
  "style": [
    "pixelated",
    "retro digital",
    "blocky monospaced font"
  ],
  "composition": [
    "centered heart above text",
    "text arranged in three lines",
    "blue background"
  ],
  "mood": [
    "positive",
    "playful"
  ],
  "animation": [],
  "preprocessingNotes": [],
  "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [],
  "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
  "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
    "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",
    "provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive",
    "provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons",
    "provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive",
    "provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons",
    "provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive",
    "provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive",
    "provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive"
  ],
  "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
  "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
  "metadataOnlyEntities": [],
  "identityHypotheses": [],
  "namedEntities": [],
  "fandoms": [],
  "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
    "surfing is love pixelated heart",
    "blue background green text heart",
    "retro digital surfing love",
    "pixelated heart surfing text",
    "green text blue background heart",
    "surfing love pixelated heart",
    "heart above surfing text",
    "blue background pixelated heart"
  ],
  "uncertainty": [],
  "aestheticStrengths": [],
  "aestheticWeaknesses": [],
  "tags": [
    {
      "tag": "heart symbol",
      "category": "subject",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: heart symbol"
    },
    {
      "tag": "text",
      "category": "subject",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: text"
    },
    {
      "tag": "pixelated",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: pixelated"
    },
    {
      "tag": "retro digital",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: retro digital"
    },
    {
      "tag": "blocky monospaced font",
      "category": "style",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: blocky monospaced font"
    },
    {
      "tag": "positive",
      "category": "mood",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: positive"
    },
    {
      "tag": "playful",
      "category": "mood",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: playful"
    },
    {
      "tag": "blue",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: blue"
    },
    {
      "tag": "green",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: green"
    },
    {
      "tag": "light blue",
      "category": "color",
      "confidence": 0.8,
      "evidence": "visible: light blue"
    }
  ],
  "rawModelResponse": {
    "icons": [
      {
        "inputIndex": 0,
        "sha256": "f87b486398d08ad4562c3949eeb31cd0a911386286edcad8bfe1224729c63a23",
        "description": "Blue background with green pixelated text reading \u0027surfing is love\u0027 and a light blue pixelated heart symbol above the text.",
        "denseCaption": "Blue background with green pixelated text reading \u0027surfing is love\u0027 in three lines; light blue pixelated heart symbol positioned above the text. The text and heart are rendered in a low-resolution, retro digital style with visible pixelation. The heart symbol is a simple outline shape. The text uses a blocky, monospaced font typical of early digital displays. The green text has a slight horizontal blur effect on the right side of each letter. The heart symbol is centered horizontally above the word \u0027surfing\u0027.",
        "wordwall": [
          "blue background",
          "green pixelated text",
          "surfing is love",
          "light blue heart symbol",
          "pixelated heart outline",
          "retro digital style",
          "blocky monospaced font",
          "horizontal blur on text",
          "centered heart above text"
        ],
        "visibleText": [
          "surfing",
          "is",
          "love"
        ],
        "uncertainText": [],
        "subjects": [
          "heart symbol",
          "text"
        ],
        "actions": [],
        "objects": [
          "heart symbol",
          "text"
        ],
        "colors": [
          "blue",
          "green",
          "light blue"
        ],
        "style": [
          "pixelated",
          "retro digital",
          "blocky monospaced font"
        ],
        "composition": [
          "centered heart above text",
          "text arranged in three lines",
          "blue background"
        ],
        "mood": [
          "positive",
          "playful"
        ],
        "animation": [],
        "preprocessingNotes": [],
        "sourceMetadataInterpretation": [],
        "metadataSupportedByImage": [],
        "metadataNotConfirmedByImage": [
          "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",
          "provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive",
          "provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons",
          "provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive",
          "provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons",
          "provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive",
          "provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive",
          "provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive"
        ],
        "metadataContradictedByImage": [],
        "visuallySupportedEntities": [],
        "metadataOnlyEntities": [],
        "identityHypotheses": [],
        "namedEntities": [],
        "fandoms": [],
        "animationSummary": "",
        "nonRedundantSearchPhrases": [
          "surfing is love pixelated heart",
          "blue background green text heart",
          "retro digital surfing love",
          "pixelated heart surfing text",
          "green text blue background heart",
          "surfing love pixelated heart",
          "heart above surfing text",
          "blue background pixelated heart"
        ],
        "tags": []
      }
    ]
  }
}
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200807011014011379474288
Archive entry
200807011014011379474288.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#200807011014011379474288.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807011014011379474288.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016