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Pixelated icon shows soccer ball, basketball, and boxing gloves with blue text 'I <3 sports' above them on white background.

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Pixelated icon shows soccer ball, basketball, and boxing gloves with blue text 'I <3 sports' above them on white background.

Pixelated icon shows soccer ball, basketball, and boxing gloves with blue text 'I <3 sports' above them on white background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text above objects
  • objects arranged horizontally
  • white background

Dense Caption

Pixelated icon displays a black-and-white soccer ball with two black circular eyes and a mouth on the left, an orange basketball with brown lines on the right, and brown boxing gloves with white stripes below the basketball. Blue text 'I <3 sports' appears above the objects. The background is white. All elements are rendered in low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering and blocky edges.

Description

  • Pixelated icon shows soccer ball, basketball, and boxing gloves with blue text 'I <3 sports' above them on white background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • soccer ball basketball boxing gloves
  • I <3 sports pixel art
  • blue text white background
  • sports icon pixelated

Style

  • dithering

Visible Text

  • I <3 sports

Wordwall

  • soccer ball
  • basketball
  • boxing gloves
  • I <3 sports
  • blue text
  • white background
  • pixel art
  • low resolution
  • black-and-white
  • orange
  • brown
  • white stripes
  • dithering
  • blocky edges

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070808142315581186675
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
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 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
51ca6195ebb73009
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:23 UTC
Run
1037
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sfw
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0.075037

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Pixelated icon shows soccer ball, basketball, and boxing gloves with blue text 'I <3 sports' above them on white background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 20:50 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,780 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 650

Review tags

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Colors

  • blue
  • black
  • white
  • orange
  • brown

Composition

  • text above objects
  • objects arranged horizontally
  • white background

Dense Caption

Pixelated icon displays a black-and-white soccer ball with two black circular eyes and a mouth on the left, an orange basketball with brown lines on the right, and brown boxing gloves with white stripes below the basketball. Blue text 'I <3 sports' appears above the objects. The background is white. All elements are rendered in low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering and blocky edges.

Description

  • Pixelated icon shows soccer ball, basketball, and boxing gloves with blue text 'I <3 sports' above them on white background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • soccer ball basketball boxing gloves
  • I <3 sports pixel art
  • blue text white background
  • sports icon pixelated

Objects

  • soccer ball
  • basketball
  • boxing gloves

Style

  • pixel art
  • low resolution
  • dithering
  • blocky edges

Subjects

  • soccer ball
  • basketball
  • boxing gloves

Visible Text

  • I <3 sports

Wordwall

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  • basketball
  • boxing gloves
  • I <3 sports
  • blue text
  • white background
  • pixel art
  • low resolution
  • black-and-white
  • orange
  • brown
  • white stripes
  • dithering
  • blocky edges
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
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July 27, 2026 at 10:53 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
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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
20070808142315581186675
Archive entry
20070808142315581186675.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#20070808142315581186675.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070808142315581186675.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016