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Pixelated softball image with visible stitching and text, set against blue background with pink text reading "softball," "takes," and "skill."

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Pixelated softball image with visible stitching and text, set against blue background with pink text reading "softball," "takes," and "skill."

Pixelated softball image with visible stitching and text, set against blue background with pink text reading "softball," "takes," and "skill.". Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon f…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with split background and text overlays.

Composition

  • asymmetrical split background
  • left: blue gradient, right: dark red

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated yellow softball with brown stitching and black text on its surface. The left side shows the ball against a gradient blue background; the right side has a solid dark red background. Pink pixelated text reads "softball" at top-right, "takes" in bottom-left, and "skill" in bottom-right. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

Pixelated softball image with visible stitching and text, set against blue background with pink text reading "softball," "takes," and "skill."

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080419172245257991030
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball takes skill
  • yellow softball brown stitching
  • blue gradient background dark red background

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • softball
  • takes
  • skill

Wordwall

  • yellow softball
  • brown stitching
  • black surface text
  • blue gradient background
  • dark red background
  • pink pixelated text
  • softball
  • takes
  • skill

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080419172245257991030
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 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/3e/3e81f5481ad382086a25b6136b784a0319d601f91362bc171983a99a613c26a1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC
Archive ID
3e81f5481ad38208
SHA-256
3e81f5481ad382086a25b6136b784a0319d601f91362bc171983a99a613c26a1
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 5, 2026 at 06:13 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000034

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 11:39 UTC
Run
1245
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000501

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:49 UTC
Run
107
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.534220

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated softball image with visible stitching and text, set against blue background with pink text reading "softball," "takes," and "skill."

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 06:07 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,216 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 552

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlay (style, 0.80)
  • softball (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with split background and text overlays.

Colors

  • yellow
  • brown
  • black
  • blue
  • red
  • magenta

Composition

  • asymmetrical split background
  • left: blue gradient, right: dark red

Dense Caption

The icon features a pixelated yellow softball with brown stitching and black text on its surface. The left side shows the ball against a gradient blue background; the right side has a solid dark red background. Pink pixelated text reads "softball" at top-right, "takes" in bottom-left, and "skill" in bottom-right. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

Pixelated softball image with visible stitching and text, set against blue background with pink text reading "softball," "takes," and "skill."

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080419172245257991030
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball takes skill
  • yellow softball brown stitching
  • blue gradient background dark red background

Objects

  • softball

Style

  • pixelated
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • softball

Visible Text

  • softball
  • takes
  • skill

Wordwall

  • yellow softball
  • brown stitching
  • black surface text
  • blue gradient background
  • dark red background
  • pink pixelated text
  • softball
  • takes
  • skill
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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
20080419172245257991030
Archive entry
20080419172245257991030.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 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#20080419172245257991030.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080419172245257991030.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016