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Brown football with white laces and black text, positioned above text reading "another excuse for men to" and "TOUCH EACH OTHER !!!!!" on white background.

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Brown football with white laces and black text, positioned above text reading "another excuse for men to" and "TOUCH EACH OTHER !!!!!" on white background.

Brown football with white laces and black text, positioned above text reading "another excuse for men to" and "TOUCH EACH OTHER !!!!!" on white background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • football centered top-left
  • text bottom-left and bottom-right
  • white background

Dense Caption

Brown football with white laces and black text on its surface; white background; brown pixelated text reading "Football" at top right; brown pixelated text reading "another excuse for men to" in bottom left; brown pixelated text reading "TOUCH EACH OTHER !!!!!" in bottom right; football casts a subtle gray shadow; all text uses a blocky, low-resolution font; no visible animation or motion changes; image is static.

Description

Brown football with white laces and black text, positioned above text reading "another excuse for men to" and "TOUCH EACH OTHER !!!!!" on white 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200708221324262034672452

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • football touch each other
  • another excuse for men to touch
  • buddy icon football text
  • pixelated football humor
  • brown football white laces
  • together football touch
  • men football touch
  • touch each other football

Visible Text

  • Football
  • another excuse for men to
  • TOUCH EACH OTHER !!!!!

Wordwall

  • brown football
  • white laces
  • black text on ball
  • white background
  • pixelated text
  • Football text
  • another excuse for men to
  • TOUCH EACH OTHER !!!!!
  • gray shadow
  • blocky font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708221324262034672452
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/48/4854adff4590745521d8bd1e1db20f8abe3c18bf51f91f1233e4a84b6ae8cf68.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
4854adff45907455
SHA-256
4854adff4590745521d8bd1e1db20f8abe3c18bf51f91f1233e4a84b6ae8cf68
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 21, 2026 at 05:59 UTC
Run
74
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Brown football with white laces and black text, positioned above text reading "another excuse for men to" and "TOUCH EACH OTHER !!!!!" on white background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 03:59 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,356 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 691

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
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  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • football (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • white
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • football centered top-left
  • text bottom-left and bottom-right
  • white background

Dense Caption

Brown football with white laces and black text on its surface; white background; brown pixelated text reading "Football" at top right; brown pixelated text reading "another excuse for men to" in bottom left; brown pixelated text reading "TOUCH EACH OTHER !!!!!" in bottom right; football casts a subtle gray shadow; all text uses a blocky, low-resolution font; no visible animation or motion changes; image is static.

Description

Brown football with white laces and black text, positioned above text reading "another excuse for men to" and "TOUCH EACH OTHER !!!!!" on white 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200708221324262034672452

Mood

  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • football touch each other
  • another excuse for men to touch
  • buddy icon football text
  • pixelated football humor
  • brown football white laces
  • together football touch
  • men football touch
  • touch each other football

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  • football

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • football

Visible Text

  • Football
  • another excuse for men to
  • TOUCH EACH OTHER !!!!!

Wordwall

  • brown football
  • white laces
  • black text on ball
  • white background
  • pixelated text
  • Football text
  • another excuse for men to
  • TOUCH EACH OTHER !!!!!
  • gray shadow
  • blocky font
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
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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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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
200708221324262034672452
Archive entry
200708221324262034672452.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#200708221324262034672452.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708221324262034672452.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016