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Pixelated text "SOCCER NEVER LOOKED BETTER" appears on green and cyan backgrounds with emoticons and star icons changing between frames.

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Pixelated text "SOCCER NEVER LOOKED BETTER" appears on green and cyan backgrounds with emoticons and star icons changing between frames.

Pixelated text "SOCCER NEVER LOOKED BETTER" appears on green and cyan backgrounds with emoticons and star icons changing between frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Int…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star icon changes color

Animation Summary

  • Star icon changes color between frames; all other elements remain static.

Composition

  • text centered
  • emoticons aligned horizontally

Dense Caption

Green and cyan backgrounds display pixelated text "SOCCER NEVER LOOKED BETTER" in white. Four emoticons (":)" "!!!" ":)" ":)" on green; ":)" "!!!" ":)" ":)" on cyan) appear below text. A blue star icon replaces the third emoticon on green background in one frame; a green star icon replaces the third emoticon on cyan background in another frame. All text and emoticons remain static except for star icon changes. Backgrounds are solid green and cyan. Text is uppercase, pixelated, and centered. Emoticons are white, pixelated, and aligned horizontally. Star icons are blue and green, pixelated, and positioned where the third emoticon appears. Animation changes only the star icon color and position relative to emoticons.

Description

  • Pixelated text "SOCCER NEVER LOOKED BETTER" appears on green and cyan backgrounds with emoticons and star icons changing between 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • soccer never looked better pixel art
  • green cyan background text emoticons star icon
  • soccer never looked better pixelated text
  • soccer never looked better star icon animation

Objects

  • star icon

Visible Text

  • SOCCER
  • NEVER
  • LOOKED
  • BETTER

Wordwall

  • SOCCER NEVER LOOKED BETTER
  • green background
  • cyan background
  • white pixelated text
  • ":)" emoticon
  • "!!!" emoticon
  • blue star icon
  • green star icon
  • pixelated emoticons
  • pixelated star icons
  • solid backgrounds
  • centered text
  • horizontal emoticon alignment

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904050831131317857676
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
927 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/30/305d206e24e561330f1ab047646c851544de269760a3f53394cd4015eeeb8b25.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC
Archive ID
305d206e24e56133
SHA-256
305d206e24e561330f1ab047646c851544de269760a3f53394cd4015eeeb8b25
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:34 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.123783

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text "SOCCER NEVER LOOKED BETTER" appears on green and cyan backgrounds with emoticons and star icons changing between frames.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 05:31 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,895 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 689

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • star icon (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static background (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Actions

  • star icon changes color

Animation

  • star icon changes color

Animation Summary

  • Star icon changes color between frames; all other elements remain static.

Colors

  • green
  • cyan
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • text centered
  • emoticons aligned horizontally

Dense Caption

Green and cyan backgrounds display pixelated text "SOCCER NEVER LOOKED BETTER" in white. Four emoticons (":)" "!!!" ":)" ":)" on green; ":)" "!!!" ":)" ":)" on cyan) appear below text. A blue star icon replaces the third emoticon on green background in one frame; a green star icon replaces the third emoticon on cyan background in another frame. All text and emoticons remain static except for star icon changes. Backgrounds are solid green and cyan. Text is uppercase, pixelated, and centered. Emoticons are white, pixelated, and aligned horizontally. Star icons are blue and green, pixelated, and positioned where the third emoticon appears. Animation changes only the star icon color and position relative to emoticons.

Description

  • Pixelated text "SOCCER NEVER LOOKED BETTER" appears on green and cyan backgrounds with emoticons and star icons changing between 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • soccer never looked better pixel art
  • green cyan background text emoticons star icon
  • soccer never looked better pixelated text
  • soccer never looked better star icon animation

Objects

  • star icon
  • emoticons

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • static background

Visible Text

  • SOCCER
  • NEVER
  • LOOKED
  • BETTER

Wordwall

  • SOCCER NEVER LOOKED BETTER
  • green background
  • cyan background
  • white pixelated text
  • ":)" emoticon
  • "!!!" emoticon
  • blue star icon
  • green star icon
  • pixelated emoticons
  • pixelated star icons
  • solid backgrounds
  • centered text
  • horizontal emoticon alignment
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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
200904050831131317857676
Archive entry
200904050831131317857676.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 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#200904050831131317857676.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904050831131317857676.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016