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Pixelated softball image with red stitching and black text on yellow surface, paired with blue background and yellow pixelated text reading "if softball was easy ... boys would play it".

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Pixelated softball image with red stitching and black text on yellow surface, paired with blue background and yellow pixelated text reading "if softball was easy ... boys would play it".

Pixelated softball image with red stitching and black text on yellow surface, paired with blue background and yellow pixelated text reading "if softball was easy ... boys would pl…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text positioned in top-right and bottom-left quadrants
  • softball centered in top-left quadrant
  • gray square occupies bottom-right quadrant

Dense Caption

Yellow softball with brown stitching; visible black rectangular area containing unreadable text. Blue gradient background transitions from light to dark. Yellow pixelated text: top-right reads "if softball was easy ...", bottom-left reads "boys would play it". Four-quadrant layout with gray square in bottom-right corner. Text uses blocky, retro video-game font style.

Description

Pixelated softball image with red stitching and black text on yellow surface, paired with blue background and yellow pixelated text reading "if softball was easy ... boys would play it".

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071110164713208903567

Named Entities

  • softball

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball pixelated text
  • if softball was easy boys would play it
  • yellow stitching blue background
  • retro font four quadrant layout

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Visible Text

  • if softball was easy ...
  • boys would play it

Visually Supported Entities

  • softball

Wordwall

  • softball
  • yellow stitching
  • black text area
  • blue background
  • pixelated text
  • four-quadrant layout
  • gray square
  • retro font

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071110164713208903567
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 UTC
Archive ID
7e469f649c180b31
SHA-256
7e469f649c180b3172ddaff3ceddb7eff79e5177bab4b88adb9875d788be729d
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:18 UTC
Run
1085
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.135178

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Pixelated softball image with red stitching and black text on yellow surface, paired with blue background and yellow pixelated text reading "if softball was easy ... boys would play it".

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 16:58 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,110 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,104, response 653

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro video game (style, 0.80)
  • softball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • brown
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • text positioned in top-right and bottom-left quadrants
  • softball centered in top-left quadrant
  • gray square occupies bottom-right quadrant

Dense Caption

Yellow softball with brown stitching; visible black rectangular area containing unreadable text. Blue gradient background transitions from light to dark. Yellow pixelated text: top-right reads "if softball was easy ...", bottom-left reads "boys would play it". Four-quadrant layout with gray square in bottom-right corner. Text uses blocky, retro video-game font style.

Description

Pixelated softball image with red stitching and black text on yellow surface, paired with blue background and yellow pixelated text reading "if softball was easy ... boys would play it".

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071110164713208903567

Mood

  • humorous
  • playful

Named Entities

  • softball

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball pixelated text
  • if softball was easy boys would play it
  • yellow stitching blue background
  • retro font four quadrant layout

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Style

  • pixelated
  • retro video game
  • blocky text

Subjects

  • softball

Visible Text

  • if softball was easy ...
  • boys would play it

Visually Supported Entities

  • softball

Wordwall

  • softball
  • yellow stitching
  • black text area
  • blue background
  • pixelated text
  • four-quadrant layout
  • gray square
  • retro font
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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
20071110164713208903567
Archive entry
20071110164713208903567.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:54 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#20071110164713208903567.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071110164713208903567.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016