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Black-and-white pixelated soccer ball on textured surface with "Soccer" text above and "Love <3" text below, separated by equals sign.

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Black-and-white pixelated soccer ball on textured surface with "Soccer" text above and "Love <3" text below, separated by equals sign.

Black-and-white pixelated soccer ball on textured surface with "Soccer" text above and "Love <3" text below, separated by equals sign. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with text and soccer ball.

Composition

  • left-center ball
  • text above and below
  • solid black right side
  • textured gray left side

Dense Caption

Black-and-white pixelated image shows a soccer ball with black hexagonal patches on a textured gray background. Text "Soccer" appears in white pixelated font above the ball. Below the ball, a white equals sign sits to the left of the text "Love" in white pixelated font, with "<3" beneath "Love". The right side of the image is solid black. The soccer ball is positioned slightly left of center, with the background extending to the left edge. The ball's surface has visible pixelation and low resolution. The text elements are aligned horizontally with the ball's vertical center. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with limited color palette and blocky rendering.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated soccer ball on textured surface with "Soccer" text above and "Love <3" text below, separated by equals sign.

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

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • soccer ball text Love <3
  • Soccer Love <3 equals sign
  • black and white soccer ball text
  • text Soccer Love <3
  • soccer ball equals Love <3
  • Soccer Love <3 pixelated
  • soccer ball textured background Love <3
  • text Soccer Love <3 black background

Visible Text

  • Soccer
  • Love
  • <3
  • =

Wordwall

  • soccer ball
  • black-and-white pixels
  • text "Soccer"
  • text "Love"
  • text "<3"
  • equals sign
  • text "Soccer" above
  • text "Love" below
  • text "<3" beneath "Love"
  • solid black background right side
  • textured gray background left side
  • pixelated rendering
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • blocky font style
  • low resolution image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708261648211420375408
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/42/42c6fc45e7774cf9d708f02e1b07594f206b2011224fbbcba9e120965a58f17f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
42c6fc45e7774cf9
SHA-256
42c6fc45e7774cf9d708f02e1b07594f206b2011224fbbcba9e120965a58f17f
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August 30, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
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Black-and-white pixelated soccer ball on textured surface with "Soccer" text above and "Love <3" text below, separated by equals sign.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 05:48 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,534 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 867

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • soccer ball (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with text and soccer ball.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • left-center ball
  • text above and below
  • solid black right side
  • textured gray left side

Dense Caption

Black-and-white pixelated image shows a soccer ball with black hexagonal patches on a textured gray background. Text "Soccer" appears in white pixelated font above the ball. Below the ball, a white equals sign sits to the left of the text "Love" in white pixelated font, with "<3" beneath "Love". The right side of the image is solid black. The soccer ball is positioned slightly left of center, with the background extending to the left edge. The ball's surface has visible pixelation and low resolution. The text elements are aligned horizontally with the ball's vertical center. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with limited color palette and blocky rendering.

Description

  • Black-and-white pixelated soccer ball on textured surface with "Soccer" text above and "Love <3" text below, separated by equals sign.

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

Metadata Only Entities

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

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  • Soccer Love <3 equals sign
  • black and white soccer ball text
  • text Soccer Love <3
  • soccer ball equals Love <3
  • Soccer Love <3 pixelated
  • soccer ball textured background Love <3
  • text Soccer Love <3 black background

Objects

  • soccer ball

Style

  • pixelated
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  • blocky font

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  • soccer ball

Visible Text

  • Soccer
  • Love
  • <3
  • =

Wordwall

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  • text "Love"
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  • text "<3" beneath "Love"
  • solid black background right side
  • textured gray background left side
  • pixelated rendering
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • blocky font style
  • low resolution image
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:13 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)
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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
200708261648211420375408
Archive entry
200708261648211420375408.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#200708261648211420375408.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708261648211420375408.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016