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Six distinct pixelated scenes arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels and activity-specific imagery

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Six distinct pixelated scenes arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels and activity-specific imagery

Six distinct pixelated scenes arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels and activity-specific imagery. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • surfer changes pose from upright to crouched

Animation Summary

  • Surfer transitions from upright stance to crouched position mid-wave.

Composition

  • text overlaid on scenes

Dense Caption

Top-left: yellow sailboat on blue water with 'Live' text. Top-middle: surfer riding wave; second frame shows surfer crouching mid-wave. Top-right: person skydiving with crossed poles under 'Learn'. Bottom-left: ocean wave pattern with partial 'And' text. Bottom-middle: baseball in hand with green 'Crave' label. Bottom-right: tennis racket on grass court under blue 'Sports' text. All scenes use low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Six distinct pixelated scenes arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels and activity-specific imagery

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • surfing wave pixel art
  • baseball crave text label
  • tennis racket sports
  • skydiver learn text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Six distinct pixelated scenes arranged in a 2x3 grid, each with overlaid text labels and activity-specific imagery.
  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: tennis racket sports grid

Style

  • 2D

Visible Text

  • Live
  • Learn
  • Love
  • And
  • Crave
  • Sports

Visually Supported Entities

  • sailboat
  • surfer
  • skydiver
  • baseball
  • tennis racket

Wordwall

  • sailboat
  • surfer
  • skydiver
  • baseball
  • tennis racket
  • ocean wave
  • text labels
  • pixel art

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806041627161323045894
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
7.7 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fb/fb6dcb3fe8fbedc3b4244e0c65a79b6ce1063c0262ea062726668ea0d297e219.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC
Archive ID
fb6dcb3fe8fbedc3
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:08 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090022

OpenAI category scores

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Six distinct pixelated scenes arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels and activity-specific imagery

Reviewed
August 16, 2026 at 16:34 UTC
Run
59
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,256 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,166, response 729

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • playing tennis (action, 0.80)
  • sailing (action, 0.80)
  • skydiving (action, 0.80)
  • surfing (action, 0.80)
  • wave (object, 0.80)
  • baseball (subject, 0.80)
  • ocean wave (subject, 0.80)
  • sailboat (subject, 0.80)
  • skydiver (subject, 0.80)
  • surfer (subject, 0.80)
  • tennis racket (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • sailing
  • surfing
  • skydiving
  • holding
  • playing tennis

Animation

  • surfer changes pose from upright to crouched

Animation Summary

  • Surfer transitions from upright stance to crouched position mid-wave.

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • white
  • brown
  • green
  • red
  • black

Composition

  • text overlaid on scenes

Dense Caption

Top-left: yellow sailboat on blue water with 'Live' text. Top-middle: surfer riding wave; second frame shows surfer crouching mid-wave. Top-right: person skydiving with crossed poles under 'Learn'. Bottom-left: ocean wave pattern with partial 'And' text. Bottom-middle: baseball in hand with green 'Crave' label. Bottom-right: tennis racket on grass court under blue 'Sports' text. All scenes use low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Six distinct pixelated scenes arranged in a , each with overlaid text labels and activity-specific imagery

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

Mood

  • active
  • adventurous
  • energetic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • surfing wave pixel art
  • baseball crave text label
  • tennis racket sports
  • skydiver learn text

Objects

  • sailboat
  • wave
  • parachute poles
  • baseball
  • tennis racket
  • grass court

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Six distinct pixelated scenes arranged in a 2x3 grid, each with overlaid text labels and activity-specific imagery.
  • quarantined composition: 2x3 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: tennis racket sports grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • 2D

Subjects

  • sailboat
  • surfer
  • skydiver
  • baseball
  • tennis racket
  • ocean wave

Visible Text

  • Live
  • Learn
  • Love
  • And
  • Crave
  • Sports

Visually Supported Entities

  • sailboat
  • surfer
  • skydiver
  • baseball
  • tennis racket

Wordwall

  • sailboat
  • surfer
  • skydiver
  • baseball
  • tennis racket
  • ocean wave
  • text labels
  • pixel art
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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
200806041627161323045894
Archive entry
200806041627161323045894.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 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

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