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A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black logo on a blue background, surrounded by blue text on a yellow background.

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A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black logo on a blue background, surrounded by blue text on a yellow background.

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central softball
  • text surrounding
  • blue background on left
  • yellow background on right

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated softball with visible red stitching and a black rectangular logo on its surface, set against a blue background. Surrounding the softball on a yellow background are multiple lines of blue pixelated text: "Softball =GREAT" at the top right, "All*Stars 09'" in the middle left, "you knoww itt." with a small emoticon in the middle right, and "Ha Allie..." at the bottom left. The softball is the central visual element, with all text and background colors rendered in a low-resolution, pixelated style.

Description

  • A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black logo on a blue background, surrounded by blue text on a yellow background.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball red stitching black logo
  • blue background yellow background
  • All*Stars 09' you knoww itt Ha Allie
  • pixelated softball text
  • Softball =GREAT
  • blue text yellow background
  • All*Stars 09' Ha Allie
  • you knoww itt emoticon

Visible Text

  • Softball =GREAT
  • All*Stars 09'
  • you knoww itt.
  • Ha Allie...

Wordwall

  • softball
  • red stitching
  • black logo
  • blue background
  • yellow background
  • blue text
  • pixelated
  • All*Stars 09'
  • Softball =GREAT
  • you knoww itt.
  • Ha Allie...

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090703061923353544919
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/57/574eec3d87fcb0068fcf944024d79c53c4eb68b3b671cd20060528665e97962f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 UTC
Archive ID
574eec3d87fcb006
SHA-256
574eec3d87fcb0068fcf944024d79c53c4eb68b3b671cd20060528665e97962f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:30 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.121886

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black logo on a blue background, surrounded by blue text on a yellow background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 13:55 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,885 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 766

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • softball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • red
  • black

Composition

  • central softball
  • text surrounding
  • blue background on left
  • yellow background on right

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated softball with visible red stitching and a black rectangular logo on its surface, set against a blue background. Surrounding the softball on a yellow background are multiple lines of blue pixelated text: "Softball =GREAT" at the top right, "All*Stars 09'" in the middle left, "you knoww itt." with a small emoticon in the middle right, and "Ha Allie..." at the bottom left. The softball is the central visual element, with all text and background colors rendered in a low-resolution, pixelated style.

Description

  • A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black logo on a blue background, surrounded by blue text on a yellow background.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball red stitching black logo
  • blue background yellow background
  • All*Stars 09' you knoww itt Ha Allie
  • pixelated softball text
  • Softball =GREAT
  • blue text yellow background
  • All*Stars 09' Ha Allie
  • you knoww itt emoticon

Objects

  • softball

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • softball

Visible Text

  • Softball =GREAT
  • All*Stars 09'
  • you knoww itt.
  • Ha Allie...

Wordwall

  • softball
  • red stitching
  • black logo
  • blue background
  • yellow background
  • blue text
  • pixelated
  • All*Stars 09'
  • Softball =GREAT
  • you knoww itt.
  • Ha Allie...
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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
20090703061923353544919
Archive entry
20090703061923353544919.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:00 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#20090703061923353544919.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090703061923353544919.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016