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A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black logo on a blue background, next to green text on a pink background.

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A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black logo on a blue background, next to green text on a pink background.

A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black logo on a blue background, next to green text on a pink background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • softball on blue background
  • text on pink background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated yellow softball with brown stitching and a black rectangular logo on its surface, positioned on a blue gradient background. To the right, on a solid pink background, green pixelated text reads "SoFtBaLl" at the top, "RoX My" in the middle, and "SoX!" vertically on the right side. The softball has a small dark spot near the bottom. The image uses a low-resolution, pixelated style with distinct color blocks.

Description

  • A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black logo on a blue background, next to green text on a pink 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball yellow brown stitching black logo
  • green text SoFtBaLl RoX My SoX!
  • pixelated softball blue pink background
  • yellow softball brown stitching black logo green text

Visible Text

  • SoFtBaLl
  • RoX My
  • SoX!

Wordwall

  • softball
  • yellow
  • brown stitching
  • black logo
  • blue background
  • pink background
  • green text
  • RoX My
  • SoX!

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708060925002053162337
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6d/6d1eb7323be5ba0f2ce9e66d2d2c2ad69aeb2053a0856133998365ec913c826a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 UTC
Archive ID
6d1eb7323be5ba0f
SHA-256
6d1eb7323be5ba0f2ce9e66d2d2c2ad69aeb2053a0856133998365ec913c826a
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 2, 2026 at 23:37 UTC
Run
1254
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.182210

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:51 UTC
Run
1039
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black logo on a blue background, next to green text on a pink background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 19:34 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,979 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 603

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • softball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • brown
  • black
  • blue
  • pink
  • green

Composition

  • softball on blue background
  • text on pink background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated yellow softball with brown stitching and a black rectangular logo on its surface, positioned on a blue gradient background. To the right, on a solid pink background, green pixelated text reads "SoFtBaLl" at the top, "RoX My" in the middle, and "SoX!" vertically on the right side. The softball has a small dark spot near the bottom. The image uses a low-resolution, pixelated style with distinct color blocks.

Description

  • A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black logo on a blue background, next to green text on a pink 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball yellow brown stitching black logo
  • green text SoFtBaLl RoX My SoX!
  • pixelated softball blue pink background
  • yellow softball brown stitching black logo green text

Objects

  • softball

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • softball

Visible Text

  • SoFtBaLl
  • RoX My
  • SoX!

Wordwall

  • softball
  • yellow
  • brown stitching
  • black logo
  • blue background
  • pink background
  • green text
  • RoX My
  • SoX!
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 10:33 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200708060925002053162337
Archive entry
200708060925002053162337.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:36 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#200708060925002053162337.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708060925002053162337.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016