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A static image divided into four quadrants showing a bowling ball, pin, and pixelated text on black backgrounds.

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A static image divided into four quadrants showing a bowling ball, pin, and pixelated text on black backgrounds.

A static image divided into four quadrants showing a bowling ball, pin, and pixelated text on black backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • top-left: bowling ball and pin on light gray background
  • bottom-left: black background with text
  • top-right: black background with text
  • bottom-right: solid light gray

Dense Caption

Top-left quadrant: light gray background with a dark gray bowling ball (left) and white bowling pin (right); the pin has a red band near its top. Bottom-left quadrant: solid black background with white pixelated text reading "dont' have such a thick skull said the pin". Top-right quadrant: solid black background with white pixelated text reading "don't be a pinhead, said the bowling ball". Bottom-right quadrant: solid light gray background; no visible objects or text.

Description

  • A static image divided into four quadrants showing a bowling ball, pin, and pixelated text on black backgrounds.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200712160726231445404235
  • FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • bowling ball
  • bowling pin

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bowling ball bowling pin red band text humor
  • four quadrants pixelated text black background

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Visible Text

  • don't be a pinhead, said the bowling ball
  • dont' have such a thick skull said the pin

Visually Supported Entities

  • bowling ball
  • bowling pin

Wordwall

  • bowling ball
  • bowling pin
  • red band on pin
  • pixelated text
  • black backgrounds
  • gray background
  • four quadrants

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712160726231445404235
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2d/2dac23b1232606892aecf0258a6f38a67ad6395f2f3046868ab14981fbf8e8c4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 UTC
Archive ID
2dac23b123260689
SHA-256
2dac23b1232606892aecf0258a6f38a67ad6395f2f3046868ab14981fbf8e8c4
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:31 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080186

OpenAI category scores

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A static image divided into four quadrants showing a bowling ball, pin, and pixelated text on black backgrounds.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 02:25 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,304 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 730

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated text (style, 0.80)
  • quadrant layout (style, 0.80)
  • bowling ball (subject, 0.80)
  • bowling pin (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark gray
  • white
  • red
  • light gray
  • black

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • top-left: bowling ball and pin on light gray background
  • bottom-left: black background with text
  • top-right: black background with text
  • bottom-right: solid light gray

Dense Caption

Top-left quadrant: light gray background with a dark gray bowling ball (left) and white bowling pin (right); the pin has a red band near its top. Bottom-left quadrant: solid black background with white pixelated text reading "dont' have such a thick skull said the pin". Top-right quadrant: solid black background with white pixelated text reading "don't be a pinhead, said the bowling ball". Bottom-right quadrant: solid light gray background; no visible objects or text.

Description

  • A static image divided into four quadrants showing a bowling ball, pin, and pixelated text on black backgrounds.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200712160726231445404235
  • FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • bowling ball
  • bowling pin

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bowling ball bowling pin red band text humor
  • four quadrants pixelated text black background

Objects

  • bowling ball
  • bowling pin

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Style

  • pixelated text
  • quadrant layout

Subjects

  • bowling ball
  • bowling pin

Visible Text

  • don't be a pinhead, said the bowling ball
  • dont' have such a thick skull said the pin

Visually Supported Entities

  • bowling ball
  • bowling pin

Wordwall

  • bowling ball
  • bowling pin
  • red band on pin
  • pixelated text
  • black backgrounds
  • gray background
  • four quadrants
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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
200712160726231445404235
Archive entry
200712160726231445404235.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:05 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#200712160726231445404235.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712160726231445404235.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016