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A yellow softball with red stitching and black text on a blue background, accompanied by yellow text reading "I love softball(:" on a black background.

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A yellow softball with red stitching and black text on a blue background, accompanied by yellow text reading "I love softball(:" on a black background.

A yellow softball with red stitching and black text on a blue background, accompanied by yellow text reading "I love softball(:" on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM budd…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split background
  • text below and to the right of object

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 and below the softball, yellow text reads "I" followed by "love softball(:" on a black background. The softball has visible stitching and appears to be a standard size. The text is in a pixelated font. The background is split into two sections: blue behind the softball and black for the text.

Description

A yellow softball with red stitching and black text on a blue background, accompanied by yellow text reading "I love softball(:" on a black 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20090615181134795921970
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball love
  • yellow softball text
  • I love softball
  • softball with stitching
  • blue background softball
  • yellow text softball
  • softball with SPALDING
  • love softball emoji

Visible Text

  • I
  • love
  • softball(:
  • SPALDING
  • 2009

Wordwall

  • yellow softball
  • red stitching
  • black text on ball
  • blue background
  • yellow text
  • black background
  • pixelated font
  • softball
  • love
  • softball(:
  • I
  • stitching
  • text
  • background
  • font
  • ball
  • yellow
  • red
  • black
  • blue

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090615181134795921970
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
43e201046a284705
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:54 UTC
Run
107
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Overall label
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Overall score
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A yellow softball with red stitching and black text on a blue background, accompanied by yellow text reading "I love softball(:" on a black background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 12:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,801 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 707

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • softball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • red
  • black
  • blue

Composition

  • split background
  • text below and to the right of object

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 and below the softball, yellow text reads "I" followed by "love softball(:" on a black background. The softball has visible stitching and appears to be a standard size. The text is in a pixelated font. The background is split into two sections: blue behind the softball and black for the text.

Description

A yellow softball with red stitching and black text on a blue background, accompanied by yellow text reading "I love softball(:" on a black 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20090615181134795921970
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

Mood

  • affectionate
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball love
  • yellow softball text
  • I love softball
  • softball with stitching
  • blue background softball
  • yellow text softball
  • softball with SPALDING
  • love softball emoji

Objects

  • softball

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Subjects

  • softball

Visible Text

  • I
  • love
  • softball(:
  • SPALDING
  • 2009

Wordwall

  • yellow softball
  • red stitching
  • black text on ball
  • blue background
  • yellow text
  • black background
  • pixelated font
  • softball
  • love
  • softball(:
  • I
  • stitching
  • text
  • background
  • font
  • ball
  • yellow
  • red
  • black
  • blue
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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
20090615181134795921970
Archive entry
20090615181134795921970.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#20090615181134795921970.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090615181134795921970.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016