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A yellow softball with red stitching and black text appears on a blue background, with "SOFTBALL" and "LIFE" text on a green background.

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A yellow softball with red stitching and black text appears on a blue background, with "SOFTBALL" and "LIFE" text on a green background.

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • softball on blue background
  • text on green background

Dense Caption

The image shows a yellow softball with red stitching and black text on its surface, positioned on a blue background. To the right, the word "SOFTBALL" appears in blue pixelated text on a green background. Below the softball, the word "IS" appears in blue pixelated text on the green background, and to the right of "IS", the word "LIFE" appears in blue pixelated text on the green background. The image has a pixelated style with distinct color blocks.

Description

  • A yellow softball with red stitching and black text appears on a blue background, with "SOFTBALL" and "LIFE" text on a green 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: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200807181136581503551223
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball life
  • softball is life
  • yellow softball red stitching
  • pixelated softball text
  • softball blue background green background
  • softball is life pixelated
  • yellow softball green background
  • softball text blue background

Visible Text

  • SOFTBALL
  • IS
  • LIFE

Wordwall

  • yellow softball
  • red stitching
  • black text on ball
  • blue background
  • green background
  • SOFTBALL text
  • IS text
  • LIFE text
  • pixelated style
  • distinct color blocks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807181136581503551223
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/37/37daeda632fed0266a12d90f0c58fd7ff97af99a78b21060f3cdaff508542293.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Archive ID
37daeda632fed026
SHA-256
37daeda632fed0266a12d90f0c58fd7ff97af99a78b21060f3cdaff508542293
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:42 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.121930

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A yellow softball with red stitching and black text appears on a blue background, with "SOFTBALL" and "LIFE" text on a green background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 13:00 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,542 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 665

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • softball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • red
  • black
  • blue
  • green

Composition

  • softball on blue background
  • text on green background

Dense Caption

The image shows a yellow softball with red stitching and black text on its surface, positioned on a blue background. To the right, the word "SOFTBALL" appears in blue pixelated text on a green background. Below the softball, the word "IS" appears in blue pixelated text on the green background, and to the right of "IS", the word "LIFE" appears in blue pixelated text on the green background. The image has a pixelated style with distinct color blocks.

Description

  • A yellow softball with red stitching and black text appears on a blue background, with "SOFTBALL" and "LIFE" text on a green 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: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200807181136581503551223
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball life
  • softball is life
  • yellow softball red stitching
  • pixelated softball text
  • softball blue background green background
  • softball is life pixelated
  • yellow softball green background
  • softball text blue background

Objects

  • softball

Style

  • pixelated

Subjects

  • softball

Visible Text

  • SOFTBALL
  • IS
  • LIFE

Wordwall

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  • red stitching
  • black text on ball
  • blue background
  • green background
  • SOFTBALL text
  • IS text
  • LIFE text
  • pixelated style
  • distinct color blocks
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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
200807181136581503551223
Archive entry
200807181136581503551223.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#200807181136581503551223.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807181136581503551223.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016