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A pixelated white volleyball on a brown background next to green text reading 'media volleyball 43'.

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A pixelated white volleyball on a brown background next to green text reading 'media volleyball 43'.

A pixelated white volleyball on a brown background next to green text reading 'media volleyball 43'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left-right split
  • volleyball on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated white volleyball with visible stitching on a brown background. To the right, on a bright green background, black pixelated text reads 'media' on the top line, 'volleyball' on the middle line, and '43' on the bottom line. The volleyball is positioned on the left side of the image, with a shadow cast to its lower left. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance.

Description

  • A pixelated white volleyball on a brown background next to green text reading 'media volleyball 43'.

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

Metadata Only Entities

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  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200809221644271469664593
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive
  • anime
  • celebrities
  • games

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  • media volleyball 43 pixelated text
  • retro digital volleyball icon
  • low resolution volleyball image
  • stitched ball shadow brown green
  • left-right split volleyball text
  • pixelated white volleyball green background text

Visible Text

  • media
  • volleyball
  • 43

Wordwall

  • pixelated volleyball
  • brown background
  • green background
  • media text
  • volleyball text
  • 43 text
  • stitched ball
  • shadow
  • retro digital
  • low resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809221644271469664593
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/51/51e32ef9768e2854a09e277f3a1a82afd36c91bfbf5c57e6691d44ab5b0c83ae.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
51e32ef9768e2854
SHA-256
51e32ef9768e2854a09e277f3a1a82afd36c91bfbf5c57e6691d44ab5b0c83ae
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Assessed
August 30, 2026 at 01:39 UTC
Run
15966
Input
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A pixelated white volleyball on a brown background next to green text reading 'media volleyball 43'.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 01:17 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,417 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 742

Review tags

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Colors

  • brown
  • green
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • left-right split
  • volleyball on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated white volleyball with visible stitching on a brown background. To the right, on a bright green background, black pixelated text reads 'media' on the top line, 'volleyball' on the middle line, and '43' on the bottom line. The volleyball is positioned on the left side of the image, with a shadow cast to its lower left. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance.

Description

  • A pixelated white volleyball on a brown background next to green text reading 'media volleyball 43'.

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

Metadata Only Entities

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  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200809221644271469664593
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive
  • anime
  • celebrities
  • games

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  • retro digital volleyball icon
  • low resolution volleyball image
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Objects

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  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

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Visible Text

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  • 43

Wordwall

  • pixelated volleyball
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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
200809221644271469664593
Archive entry
200809221644271469664593.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#200809221644271469664593.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809221644271469664593.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016