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A split-screen icon with 'softball love' text on white and 'MLWalters #5' on green, featuring a pixelated softball image.

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A split-screen icon with 'softball love' text on white and 'MLWalters #5' on green, featuring a pixelated softball image.

A split-screen icon with 'softball love' text on white and 'MLWalters #5' on green, featuring a pixelated softball image. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical split
  • text above image (left)
  • text above text (right)

Dense Caption

The icon is split vertically into two sections. Left section: white background with 'softball' in large black pixelated text, 'love' in smaller pink pixelated text below it, and a pixelated image of a white softball with a horizontal stripe at the bottom. Right section: bright green background with 'MLWalters' in large purple pixelated text at the top and '#5' in smaller purple pixelated text below it. All text and images are rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • A split-screen icon with 'softball love' text on white and 'MLWalters #5' on green, featuring a pixelated softball image.

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball love mlwalters
  • mlwalters #5 softball
  • softball love green background
  • pixelated softball icon

Visible Text

  • softball
  • love
  • MLWalters
  • #5

Wordwall

  • softball
  • love
  • MLWalters
  • #5
  • white background
  • green background
  • black text
  • pink text
  • purple text
  • pixelated
  • softball image
  • horizontal stripe
  • low-resolution
  • split-screen

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080701210214799853484
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 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 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
4dc79e4190edac29
SHA-256
4dc79e4190edac291ddd5acf18cfaba80bea07c04a511d25363c8a61157222d0
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 10:06 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000716

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 26, 2026 at 08:09 UTC
Run
1191
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:18 UTC
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1034
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A split-screen icon with 'softball love' text on white and 'MLWalters #5' on green, featuring a pixelated softball image.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 10:02 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,829 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 621

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • split screen (style, 0.80)
  • softball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • green
  • black
  • pink
  • purple

Composition

  • vertical split
  • text above image (left)
  • text above text (right)

Dense Caption

The icon is split vertically into two sections. Left section: white background with 'softball' in large black pixelated text, 'love' in smaller pink pixelated text below it, and a pixelated image of a white softball with a horizontal stripe at the bottom. Right section: bright green background with 'MLWalters' in large purple pixelated text at the top and '#5' in smaller purple pixelated text below it. All text and images are rendered in low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • A split-screen icon with 'softball love' text on white and 'MLWalters #5' on green, featuring a pixelated softball image.

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball love mlwalters
  • mlwalters #5 softball
  • softball love green background
  • pixelated softball icon

Objects

  • softball

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • split-screen

Subjects

  • softball

Visible Text

  • softball
  • love
  • MLWalters
  • #5

Wordwall

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  • love
  • MLWalters
  • #5
  • white background
  • green background
  • black text
  • pink text
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  • pixelated
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  • horizontal stripe
  • low-resolution
  • split-screen
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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
20080701210214799853484
Archive entry
20080701210214799853484.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#20080701210214799853484.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080701210214799853484.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016