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A static image divided into four quadrants with a volleyball in the top-left, text in two pink sections, and gray background.

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A static image divided into four quadrants with a volleyball in the top-left, text in two pink sections, and gray background.

A static image divided into four quadrants with a volleyball in the top-left, text in two pink sections, and gray background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • top-left: volleyball on brown surface
  • top-right: black pixelated text on bright pink
  • bottom-left: black pixelated text on bright pink
  • bottom-right: solid gray

Dense Caption

The image is split into four equal quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a white volleyball on a brown surface. Top-right quadrant has black pixelated text "Work shmurk" on bright pink background. Bottom-left quadrant displays black pixelated text "volleyball comes 1st" on bright pink background. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. The image contains no visible motion or animation.

Description

  • A static image divided into four quadrants with a volleyball in the top-left, text in two pink sections, and gray background.

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: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710191628181061011966
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance topic-coverage: games
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2016
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2007

Named Entities

  • volleyball

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • volleyball work shmurk
  • work shmurk volleyball comes 1st
  • pink gray brown volleyball
  • pixelated text volleyball icon
  • vollyball comes 1st pink background
  • gray quadrant volleyball
  • bright pink background volleyball
  • volleyball on brown surface

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Visible Text

  • Work shmurk
  • volleyball comes 1st

Visually Supported Entities

  • volleyball

Wordwall

  • volleyball
  • work shmurk
  • volleyball comes 1st
  • pink background
  • gray background
  • brown surface

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710191628181061011966
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/02/0283f7c0ce3f721b0b8b20ab61856c5df7aa2d9f24e5cad754d860914e8a48fc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC
Archive ID
0283f7c0ce3f721b
SHA-256
0283f7c0ce3f721b0b8b20ab61856c5df7aa2d9f24e5cad754d860914e8a48fc
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 11:16 UTC
Run
1201
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000019

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:25 UTC
Run
1137
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000500

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 12:56 UTC
Run
89
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.212009

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A static image divided into four quadrants with a volleyball in the top-left, text in two pink sections, and gray background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 11:14 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,990 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 797

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated text (style, 0.80)
  • quadrant layout (style, 0.80)
  • volleyball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • brown
  • bright pink
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • top-left: volleyball on brown surface
  • top-right: black pixelated text on bright pink
  • bottom-left: black pixelated text on bright pink
  • bottom-right: solid gray

Dense Caption

The image is split into four equal quadrants. Top-left quadrant shows a white volleyball on a brown surface. Top-right quadrant has black pixelated text "Work shmurk" on bright pink background. Bottom-left quadrant displays black pixelated text "volleyball comes 1st" on bright pink background. Bottom-right quadrant is solid gray. The image contains no visible motion or animation.

Description

  • A static image divided into four quadrants with a volleyball in the top-left, text in two pink sections, and gray background.

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: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710191628181061011966
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance topic-coverage: games
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2016
  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2007

Named Entities

  • volleyball

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • work shmurk volleyball comes 1st
  • pink gray brown volleyball
  • pixelated text volleyball icon
  • vollyball comes 1st pink background
  • gray quadrant volleyball
  • bright pink background volleyball
  • volleyball on brown surface

Objects

  • volleyball

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Style

  • pixelated text
  • quadrant layout

Subjects

  • volleyball

Visible Text

  • Work shmurk
  • volleyball comes 1st

Visually Supported Entities

  • volleyball

Wordwall

  • volleyball
  • work shmurk
  • volleyball comes 1st
  • pink background
  • gray background
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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
200710191628181061011966
Archive entry
200710191628181061011966.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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#200710191628181061011966.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710191628181061011966.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016