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A static image shows a white volleyball on a brown surface against a bright pink background with two '<3' symbols and the word 'volleyball' in pixelated text.

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A static image shows a white volleyball on a brown surface against a bright pink background with two '<3' symbols and the word 'volleyball' in pixelated text.

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered volleyball on brown surface
  • text and symbols aligned to right of image
  • solid background color

Dense Caption

The icon features a circular white volleyball with visible panel lines, positioned on a brown textured surface casting a dark shadow. The background is solid bright pink. Two identical white '<3' symbols appear vertically aligned to the right of the volleyball image. Below the volleyball image and centered horizontally, the word 'volleyball' is rendered in pixelated lowercase letters. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

A static image shows a white volleyball on a brown surface against a bright pink background with two '<3' symbols and the word 'volleyball' in pixelated text.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • volleyball <3 pink background
  • white volleyball brown surface
  • <3 symbols volleyball text
  • pixelated volleyball icon

Visible Text

  • <3
  • volleyball

Visually Supported Entities

  • volleyball

Wordwall

  • white volleyball
  • brown surface
  • bright pink background
  • <3 symbol (x2)
  • pixelated text
  • centered composition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802020643031739111229
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7b/7ba409fa81fbfb4dd32a23736ca89527c50b4ba5322ff312685470c5ea03ccc9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC
Archive ID
7ba409fa81fbfb4d
SHA-256
7ba409fa81fbfb4dd32a23736ca89527c50b4ba5322ff312685470c5ea03ccc9
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:11 UTC
Run
1072
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.193215

OpenAI category scores

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A static image shows a white volleyball on a brown surface against a bright pink background with two '<3' symbols and the word 'volleyball' in pixelated text.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 14:26 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,386 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 589

Review tags

  • bright pink (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • 3 symbols (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • volleyball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • brown
  • bright pink

Composition

  • centered volleyball on brown surface
  • text and symbols aligned to right of image
  • solid background color

Dense Caption

The icon features a circular white volleyball with visible panel lines, positioned on a brown textured surface casting a dark shadow. The background is solid bright pink. Two identical white '<3' symbols appear vertically aligned to the right of the volleyball image. Below the volleyball image and centered horizontally, the word 'volleyball' is rendered in pixelated lowercase letters. All elements are static with no visible animation changes.

Description

A static image shows a white volleyball on a brown surface against a bright pink background with two '<3' symbols and the word 'volleyball' in pixelated text.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • volleyball <3 pink background
  • white volleyball brown surface
  • <3 symbols volleyball text
  • pixelated volleyball icon

Objects

  • volleyball
  • <3 symbols

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • volleyball

Visible Text

  • <3
  • volleyball

Visually Supported Entities

  • volleyball

Wordwall

  • white volleyball
  • brown surface
  • bright pink background
  • <3 symbol (x2)
  • pixelated text
  • centered composition
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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
200802020643031739111229
Archive entry
200802020643031739111229.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 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#200802020643031739111229.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802020643031739111229.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016