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A yellow softball with brown stitching and a black logo on a blue gradient background, accompanied by pink pixelated text.

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A yellow softball with brown stitching and a black logo on a blue gradient background, accompanied by pink pixelated text.

A yellow softball with brown stitching and a black logo on a blue gradient background, accompanied by pink pixelated text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • softball centered
  • text to right and below
  • blue gradient background

Dense Caption

A yellow softball with brown stitching and a black logo is centered on a blue gradient background. To the right and below the softball, pink pixelated text reads "SoFtBaLl Is FoR gIrLs" and "ThAt ArEnT aFrAiD to Get Down aNd dIrTy". The text uses a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters with intentional pixelation. The softball has visible stitching and a small dark logo near the bottom. The background transitions from light blue at the top to darker blue at the bottom.

Description

  • A yellow softball with brown stitching and a black logo on a blue gradient background, accompanied by pink pixelated text.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070816202822858691916
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball pink text
  • yellow softball blue background
  • SoFtBaLl Is FoR gIrLs
  • ThAt ArEnT aFrAiD to Get Down aNd dIrTy
  • pixelated softball text
  • brown stitching softball
  • blue gradient background softball
  • playful softball text

Visible Text

  • SoFtBaLl Is FoR gIrLs
  • ThAt ArEnT aFrAiD to
  • Get Down aNd dIrTy

Wordwall

  • yellow softball
  • brown stitching
  • black logo
  • blue gradient background
  • pink pixelated text
  • SoFtBaLl Is FoR gIrLs
  • ThAt ArEnT aFrAiD to
  • Get Down aNd dIrTy

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070816202822858691916
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3d/3d01f208f8ecc8607b2ab6efd46d7cee9f0b510c2bac53a426f80e36f1120973.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
3d01f208f8ecc860
SHA-256
3d01f208f8ecc8607b2ab6efd46d7cee9f0b510c2bac53a426f80e36f1120973
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:47 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096517

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A yellow softball with brown stitching and a black logo on a blue gradient background, accompanied by pink pixelated text.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 01:12 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,213 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 792

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • softball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • brown
  • black
  • blue
  • pink

Composition

  • softball centered
  • text to right and below
  • blue gradient background

Dense Caption

A yellow softball with brown stitching and a black logo is centered on a blue gradient background. To the right and below the softball, pink pixelated text reads "SoFtBaLl Is FoR gIrLs" and "ThAt ArEnT aFrAiD to Get Down aNd dIrTy". The text uses a mix of uppercase and lowercase letters with intentional pixelation. The softball has visible stitching and a small dark logo near the bottom. The background transitions from light blue at the top to darker blue at the bottom.

Description

  • A yellow softball with brown stitching and a black logo on a blue gradient background, accompanied by pink pixelated text.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070816202822858691916
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball pink text
  • yellow softball blue background
  • SoFtBaLl Is FoR gIrLs
  • ThAt ArEnT aFrAiD to Get Down aNd dIrTy
  • pixelated softball text
  • brown stitching softball
  • blue gradient background softball
  • playful softball text

Objects

  • softball

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Subjects

  • softball

Visible Text

  • SoFtBaLl Is FoR gIrLs
  • ThAt ArEnT aFrAiD to
  • Get Down aNd dIrTy

Wordwall

  • yellow softball
  • brown stitching
  • black logo
  • blue gradient background
  • pink pixelated text
  • SoFtBaLl Is FoR gIrLs
  • ThAt ArEnT aFrAiD to
  • Get Down aNd dIrTy
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:56 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20070816202822858691916
Archive entry
20070816202822858691916.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#20070816202822858691916.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070816202822858691916.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016