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A baseball with red stitching and a black signature on a gray background, next to a yellow with green pixelated text reading 'travel + me = life'

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A baseball with red stitching and a black signature on a gray background, next to a yellow with green pixelated text reading 'travel + me = life'

A baseball with red stitching and a black signature on a gray background, next to a yellow with green pixelated text reading 'travel + me = life'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ico…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split vertical
  • left: baseball on gray
  • right: text on yellow

Dense Caption

The image is split into two vertical sections. On the left, a baseball with white surface and red stitching is visible; a black signature is partially visible on the baseball's surface. The background is a light gray gradient. On the right, a solid bright yellow background contains green pixelated text arranged vertically: 'travel' at the top, followed by a plus sign, then 'me', then an equals sign, and finally 'life' at the bottom. The baseball casts a dark shadow on the gray background. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance.

Description

A baseball with red stitching and a black signature on a gray background, next to a yellow with green pixelated text reading 'travel + me = life'

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • baseball travel me life
  • baseball plus me equals life
  • baseball signature travel me life
  • travel me life text
  • baseball yellow background
  • baseball gray background
  • pixelated baseball travel me life
  • baseball shadow yellow background

Preprocessing Notes

quarantined description: A baseball with red stitching and a black signature on a gray background, next to a yellow panel with green pixelated text reading 'travel + me = life'.

Visible Text

  • travel
  • +
  • me
  • =
  • life

Wordwall

  • baseball
  • red stitching
  • black signature
  • gray background
  • yellow background
  • green pixelated text
  • travel
  • me
  • life
  • plus sign
  • equals sign
  • low-resolution
  • pixelated
  • vertical text layout
  • baseball shadow

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008062914454638455062
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/38/38ad77d5cdcc62178bbd9206e14d338fbbf030e377c6412bf6f3688e6a1c0c2a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
38ad77d5cdcc6217
SHA-256
38ad77d5cdcc62178bbd9206e14d338fbbf030e377c6412bf6f3688e6a1c0c2a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:43 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.124288

OpenAI category scores

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A baseball with red stitching and a black signature on a gray background, next to a yellow with green pixelated text reading 'travel + me = life'

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 09:29 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,788 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 754

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • lighthearted (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • baseball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • red
  • black
  • gray
  • yellow
  • green

Composition

  • split vertical
  • left: baseball on gray
  • right: text on yellow

Dense Caption

The image is split into two vertical sections. On the left, a baseball with white surface and red stitching is visible; a black signature is partially visible on the baseball's surface. The background is a light gray gradient. On the right, a solid bright yellow background contains green pixelated text arranged vertically: 'travel' at the top, followed by a plus sign, then 'me', then an equals sign, and finally 'life' at the bottom. The baseball casts a dark shadow on the gray background. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance.

Description

A baseball with red stitching and a black signature on a gray background, next to a yellow with green pixelated text reading 'travel + me = life'

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

Mood

  • playful
  • lighthearted

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • baseball travel me life
  • baseball plus me equals life
  • baseball signature travel me life
  • travel me life text
  • baseball yellow background
  • baseball gray background
  • pixelated baseball travel me life
  • baseball shadow yellow background

Objects

  • baseball
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

quarantined description: A baseball with red stitching and a black signature on a gray background, next to a yellow panel with green pixelated text reading 'travel + me = life'.

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Subjects

  • baseball

Visible Text

  • travel
  • +
  • me
  • =
  • life

Wordwall

  • baseball
  • red stitching
  • black signature
  • gray background
  • yellow background
  • green pixelated text
  • travel
  • me
  • life
  • plus sign
  • equals sign
  • low-resolution
  • pixelated
  • vertical text layout
  • baseball shadow
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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
2008062914454638455062
Archive entry
2008062914454638455062.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#2008062914454638455062.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008062914454638455062.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016