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Purple background with light blue pixel dots; text reads Softball, basketball, 4, ever in two identical horizontal

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Purple background with light blue pixel dots; text reads Softball, basketball, 4, ever in two identical horizontal

Purple background with light blue pixel dots; text reads Softball, basketball, 4, ever in two identical horizontal. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two identical horizontal
  • equal spacing between text elements

Dense Caption

Purple background with scattered light blue pixel dots. Two identical horizontal rows of text: top row reads "Softball Softball", middle row reads "basketball basketball", bottom row reads "4 4", and lowest row reads "ever ever". All text is black, pixelated, and rendered in a uniform font. The layout is symmetrical with equal spacing between text elements. The image has no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Purple background with light blue pixel dots; text reads Softball, basketball, 4, ever in two identical horizontal

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball basketball 4 ever
  • purple background light blue dots
  • text-based symmetrical layout
  • pixelated font two

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Purple background with light blue pixel dots; text reads Softball, basketball, 4, ever in two identical horizontal rows.
  • quarantined wordwall: two identical rows
  • quarantined composition: two identical horizontal rows
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated font two rows

Visible Text

  • Softball
  • basketball
  • 4
  • ever

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • light blue pixel dots
  • Softball text
  • basketball text
  • 4 text
  • ever text
  • two identical
  • symmetrical layout
  • black pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081006140712816281037
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/51/5105377d25e53df041f40fdf572f1f49ab4cde2574ee70d167a82265c84d1f5f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
5105377d25e53df0
SHA-256
5105377d25e53df041f40fdf572f1f49ab4cde2574ee70d167a82265c84d1f5f
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 31, 2026 at 17:32 UTC
Run
1252
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000498

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:22 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Purple background with light blue pixel dots; text reads Softball, basketball, 4, ever in two identical horizontal

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 03:10 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,431 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 560

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • symmetrical (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • purple
  • light blue
  • black

Composition

  • two identical horizontal
  • equal spacing between text elements

Dense Caption

Purple background with scattered light blue pixel dots. Two identical horizontal rows of text: top row reads "Softball Softball", middle row reads "basketball basketball", bottom row reads "4 4", and lowest row reads "ever ever". All text is black, pixelated, and rendered in a uniform font. The layout is symmetrical with equal spacing between text elements. The image has no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Purple background with light blue pixel dots; text reads Softball, basketball, 4, ever in two identical horizontal

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball basketball 4 ever
  • purple background light blue dots
  • text-based symmetrical layout
  • pixelated font two

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Purple background with light blue pixel dots; text reads Softball, basketball, 4, ever in two identical horizontal rows.
  • quarantined wordwall: two identical rows
  • quarantined composition: two identical horizontal rows
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated font two rows

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • symmetrical

Visible Text

  • Softball
  • basketball
  • 4
  • ever

Wordwall

  • purple background
  • light blue pixel dots
  • Softball text
  • basketball text
  • 4 text
  • ever text
  • two identical
  • symmetrical layout
  • black pixelated font
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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
20081006140712816281037
Archive entry
20081006140712816281037.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#20081006140712816281037.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081006140712816281037.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016