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A baseball with green text overlays showing different names and numbers across frames.

A baseball with green text overlays showing different names and numbers across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Lat…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes from "Melissa" to "#11" to "Catcher"

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change sequentially from "Melissa" to "#11" to "Catcher" while the baseball remains static.

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered ball
  • text overlay

Dense Caption

The image shows a close-up of a baseball with visible stitching. In the top-left frame, green pixelated text reads "Melissa" over the ball. The top-right frame displays green text reading "#11" in the same position. The bottom-left frame features green text reading "Catcher" below the ball. All frames share identical background and composition.

Description

  • A baseball with green text overlays showing different names and numbers across frames.

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

  • baseball green text Melissa
  • baseball green text #11
  • baseball green text Catcher
  • baseball stitching

Visible Text

  • Melissa
  • #11
  • Catcher

Visually Supported Entities

  • baseball
  • Melissa
  • #11
  • Catcher

Wordwall

  • baseball
  • stitching
  • green text
  • Melissa
  • #11
  • Catcher

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071110060835979428012
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/28/28c143b32b52c481499f68518bbbc52b63f9418b35179a2f14f37fbbe9aace14.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC
Archive ID
28c143b32b52c481
SHA-256
28c143b32b52c481499f68518bbbc52b63f9418b35179a2f14f37fbbe9aace14
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:26 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.068921

OpenAI category scores

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A baseball with green text overlays showing different names and numbers across frames.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 16:41 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,768 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 601

Review tags

  • green (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow green (color, 0.80)
  • text changes from melissa to 11 to catcher (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • baseball (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • text changes from "Melissa" to "#11" to "Catcher"

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change sequentially from "Melissa" to "#11" to "Catcher" while the baseball remains static.

Colors

  • yellow-green
  • purple
  • white
  • green

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered ball
  • text overlay

Dense Caption

The image shows a close-up of a baseball with visible stitching. In the top-left frame, green pixelated text reads "Melissa" over the ball. The top-right frame displays green text reading "#11" in the same position. The bottom-left frame features green text reading "Catcher" below the ball. All frames share identical background and composition.

Description

  • A baseball with green text overlays showing different names and numbers across frames.

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

  • baseball green text Melissa
  • baseball green text #11
  • baseball green text Catcher
  • baseball stitching

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • baseball

Visible Text

  • Melissa
  • #11
  • Catcher

Visually Supported Entities

  • baseball
  • Melissa
  • #11
  • Catcher

Wordwall

  • baseball
  • stitching
  • green text
  • Melissa
  • #11
  • Catcher
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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
20071110060835979428012
Archive entry
20071110060835979428012.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 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#20071110060835979428012.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071110060835979428012.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016