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Pixelated beach scene with palm trees and water on left; blue background with purple text and emoticons on right.

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Pixelated beach scene with palm trees and water on left; blue background with purple text and emoticons on right.

Pixelated beach scene with palm trees and water on left; blue background with purple text and emoticons on right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split
  • left: landscape
  • right: text-heavy

Dense Caption

Left panel shows pixelated beach scene with light blue sky, white clouds, green palm trees, and white sand with light blue water. Right panel has solid bright blue background with purple pixelated text: 'summers almost over :-(' at top right, 'but on the up side d[^_^]b' at bottom left, and 'i get to see him <3 <3 <3' at bottom right. All text uses blocky, low-resolution font. No visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated beach scene with palm trees and water on left; blue background with purple text and emoticons on right.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beach scene pixelated text
  • summers almost over emoticon
  • d[^_^]b heart symbols
  • i get to see him <3

Objects

  • heart symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: split panel

Visible Text

  • summers almost over :-(
  • but on the up side d[^_^]b
  • i get to see him <3 <3 <3

Wordwall

  • beach scene
  • palm trees
  • white sand
  • light blue water
  • bright blue background
  • purple text
  • :-(
  • d[^_^]b
  • <3 <3 <3
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708111516382061326702
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fd/fd87e9d2f7c9479be964d1d3db34ccd9fa57b34fe8ccf17e56260775a7a52724.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
fd87e9d2f7c9479b
SHA-256
fd87e9d2f7c9479be964d1d3db34ccd9fa57b34fe8ccf17e56260775a7a52724
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Assessed
August 2, 2026 at 10:32 UTC
Run
1254
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
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Overall score
0.000520

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:09 UTC
Run
1140
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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated beach scene with palm trees and water on left; blue background with purple text and emoticons on right.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 22:15 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,908 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 679

Review tags

  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • hopeful (mood, 0.80)
  • melancholic (mood, 0.80)
  • emoticons (object, 0.80)
  • heart symbols (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • beach (subject, 0.80)
  • palm trees (subject, 0.80)
  • sand (subject, 0.80)
  • water (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • white
  • green
  • bright blue
  • purple

Composition

  • split
  • left: landscape
  • right: text-heavy

Dense Caption

Left panel shows pixelated beach scene with light blue sky, white clouds, green palm trees, and white sand with light blue water. Right panel has solid bright blue background with purple pixelated text: 'summers almost over :-(' at top right, 'but on the up side d[^_^]b' at bottom left, and 'i get to see him <3 <3 <3' at bottom right. All text uses blocky, low-resolution font. No visible animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated beach scene with palm trees and water on left; blue background with purple text and emoticons on right.

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

Mood

  • melancholic
  • hopeful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • beach scene pixelated text
  • summers almost over emoticon
  • d[^_^]b heart symbols
  • i get to see him <3

Objects

  • emoticons
  • heart symbols

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: split panel

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • beach
  • palm trees
  • water
  • sand

Visible Text

  • summers almost over :-(
  • but on the up side d[^_^]b
  • i get to see him <3 <3 <3

Wordwall

  • beach scene
  • palm trees
  • white sand
  • light blue water
  • bright blue background
  • purple text
  • :-(
  • d[^_^]b
  • <3 <3 <3
  • pixelated
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:16 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
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
200708111516382061326702
Archive entry
200708111516382061326702.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#200708111516382061326702.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708111516382061326702.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016