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Yellow softball with brown stitching and black text on blue gradient background, red pixelated text reads "Hard Core Softball Player".

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Yellow softball with brown stitching and black text on blue gradient background, red pixelated text reads "Hard Core Softball Player".

Yellow softball with brown stitching and black text on blue gradient background, red pixelated text reads "Hard Core Softball Player". Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no animation observed

Composition

  • left-right split
  • softball centered left
  • text aligned right

Dense Caption

Pixelated yellow softball dominates left side of frame. Brown stitched seams form curved patterns across surface; one seam has visible dark rectangular area resembling obscured text or logo. Right side features solid bright blue background with four lines of red pixelated text: "Hard", "Core", "Softball", "Player". Background transitions from light blue at top to darker blue at bottom. Image is static, no animation observed.

Description

  • Yellow softball with brown stitching and black text on blue gradient background, red pixelated text reads "Hard Core Softball Player".

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711201812331436244852
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball player pixel art
  • yellow softball blue background red text
  • hard core softball player icon
  • pixelated softball with text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected

Visible Text

  • Hard
  • Core
  • Softball
  • Player

Wordwall

  • yellow softball
  • brown stitching
  • black rectangular area on seam
  • red pixelated text
  • blue gradient background
  • solid bright blue section
  • four lines of text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711201812331436244852
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/75/752edf33b0e0c56894cd22bc145606d9b5bc14c55b993e84e08f82a8cb033e1b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 UTC
Archive ID
752edf33b0e0c568
SHA-256
752edf33b0e0c56894cd22bc145606d9b5bc14c55b993e84e08f82a8cb033e1b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:59 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.105954

OpenAI category scores

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Yellow softball with brown stitching and black text on blue gradient background, red pixelated text reads "Hard Core Softball Player".

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 20:48 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,481 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 552

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text heavy (style, 0.80)
  • softball (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no animation observed

Colors

  • yellow
  • brown
  • black
  • red
  • light blue
  • dark blue

Composition

  • left-right split
  • softball centered left
  • text aligned right

Dense Caption

Pixelated yellow softball dominates left side of frame. Brown stitched seams form curved patterns across surface; one seam has visible dark rectangular area resembling obscured text or logo. Right side features solid bright blue background with four lines of red pixelated text: "Hard", "Core", "Softball", "Player". Background transitions from light blue at top to darker blue at bottom. Image is static, no animation observed.

Description

  • Yellow softball with brown stitching and black text on blue gradient background, red pixelated text reads "Hard Core Softball Player".

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200711201812331436244852
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball player pixel art
  • yellow softball blue background red text
  • hard core softball player icon
  • pixelated softball with text

Objects

  • softball

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-heavy

Subjects

  • softball

Visible Text

  • Hard
  • Core
  • Softball
  • Player

Wordwall

  • yellow softball
  • brown stitching
  • black rectangular area on seam
  • red pixelated text
  • blue gradient background
  • solid bright blue section
  • four lines of text
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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
200711201812331436244852
Archive entry
200711201812331436244852.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:59 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#200711201812331436244852.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711201812331436244852.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016