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A circular white volleyball with red accents on a beige background, displaying changing text overlays.

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A circular white volleyball with red accents on a beige background, displaying changing text overlays.

A circular white volleyball with red accents on a beige background, displaying changing text overlays. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes between views

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change between views: green 'i' in black rectangle, pink 'love' in pink rectangle, blue 'vball' in black rectangle.

Composition

  • circular
  • centered
  • single subject

Dense Caption

Circular white volleyball with red accents on a beige background. Top-left view shows a black rectangle with green 'i' text. Top-right view shows a pink rounded rectangle with white 'love' text. Bottom-left view shows a black rounded rectangle with blue 'vball' text. All views share the same volleyball shape and background. Pixel resolution is low, with visible dithering and blocky text.

Description

  • A circular white volleyball with red accents on a beige background, displaying changing text overlays.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200811121234131622133976
  • aim
  • historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • volleyball text overlays
  • green i pink love blue vball
  • low resolution volleyball icon
  • text change animation volleyball

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or matte

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • no source-derived claims supported by pixels

Style

  • text-overlaid

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • vball

Wordwall

  • volleyball
  • red accents
  • beige background
  • green 'i'
  • pink 'love'
  • blue 'vball'
  • black rectangles
  • rounded rectangles
  • low resolution
  • dithering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811121234131622133976
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4c/4c277170923e6aa433a0ae5d17f03bf86392df75c5dea0c67b06d4c990a823f8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
4c277170923e6aa4
SHA-256
4c277170923e6aa433a0ae5d17f03bf86392df75c5dea0c67b06d4c990a823f8
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:15 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076790

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A circular white volleyball with red accents on a beige background, displaying changing text overlays.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 08:26 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,178 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 703

Review tags

  • text changes (action, 0.80)
  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • text overlays (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text overlaid (style, 0.80)
  • volleyball (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text changes

Animation

  • text changes between views

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change between views: green 'i' in black rectangle, pink 'love' in pink rectangle, blue 'vball' in black rectangle.

Colors

  • white
  • red
  • beige
  • green
  • pink
  • black
  • blue

Composition

  • circular
  • centered
  • single subject

Dense Caption

Circular white volleyball with red accents on a beige background. Top-left view shows a black rectangle with green 'i' text. Top-right view shows a pink rounded rectangle with white 'love' text. Bottom-left view shows a black rounded rectangle with blue 'vball' text. All views share the same volleyball shape and background. Pixel resolution is low, with visible dithering and blocky text.

Description

  • A circular white volleyball with red accents on a beige background, displaying changing text overlays.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200811121234131622133976
  • aim
  • historical-archive

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • volleyball text overlays
  • green i pink love blue vball
  • low resolution volleyball icon
  • text change animation volleyball

Objects

  • text overlays

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling or matte

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • no source-derived claims supported by pixels

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-overlaid

Subjects

  • volleyball

Visible Text

  • i
  • love
  • vball

Wordwall

  • volleyball
  • red accents
  • beige background
  • green 'i'
  • pink 'love'
  • blue 'vball'
  • black rectangles
  • rounded rectangles
  • low resolution
  • dithering
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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
200811121234131622133976
Archive entry
200811121234131622133976.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#200811121234131622133976.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811121234131622133976.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016