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A static image shows a white volleyball on a brown surface with blue background text reading "volleyball" and "one of the BEST sports ever".

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A static image shows a white volleyball on a brown surface with blue background text reading "volleyball" and "one of the BEST sports ever".

A static image shows a white volleyball on a brown surface with blue background text reading "volleyball" and "one of the BEST sports ever". Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left-aligned volleyball
  • text sections top-right, bottom-left, middle-right
  • solid blue background

Dense Caption

The image features a white volleyball with visible seams on a brown textured surface. The background is solid blue. Yellow pixelated text appears in four sections: "volleyball" at the top right, "one of the BEST sports ever" in the bottom left, and "(333" in the middle right. The volleyball is positioned on the left side of the image, casting a shadow on the brown surface. The text uses a retro pixel font style. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A static image shows a white volleyball on a brown surface with blue background text reading "volleyball" and "one of the BEST sports ever".

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: sports

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708161528451341402734

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • volleyball blue background yellow text
  • one of the BEST sports ever volleyball
  • white volleyball brown surface
  • retro pixelated volleyball text
  • volleyball (333 blue background
  • sports volleyball blue background
  • blue background volleyball yellow text
  • volleyball one of the BEST sports

Visible Text

  • volleyball
  • one of the BEST sports ever
  • (333

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  • blue background
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  • volleyball
  • one of the BEST sports ever
  • (333
  • seams on volleyball
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  • shadow on surface

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708161528451341402734
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
36cbb5ddd1e02794
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
Run
107
Input
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static image shows a white volleyball on a brown surface with blue background text reading "volleyball" and "one of the BEST sports ever".

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 00:47 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,851 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 782

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  • yellow (color, 0.80)
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  • white
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  • yellow

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  • left-aligned volleyball
  • text sections top-right, bottom-left, middle-right
  • solid blue background

Dense Caption

The image features a white volleyball with visible seams on a brown textured surface. The background is solid blue. Yellow pixelated text appears in four sections: "volleyball" at the top right, "one of the BEST sports ever" in the bottom left, and "(333" in the middle right. The volleyball is positioned on the left side of the image, casting a shadow on the brown surface. The text uses a retro pixel font style. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A static image shows a white volleyball on a brown surface with blue background text reading "volleyball" and "one of the BEST sports ever".

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: sports

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200708161528451341402734

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  • retro pixelated volleyball text
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  • volleyball one of the BEST sports

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  • one of the BEST sports ever
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  • one of the BEST sports ever
  • (333
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  • shadow on surface
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Run
52
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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
200708161528451341402734
Archive entry
200708161528451341402734.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#200708161528451341402734.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708161528451341402734.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016