A soccer ball on grass with pixelated text reading "It Takes BALLS To Play" in white letters against a black background.

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A soccer ball on grass with pixelated text reading "It Takes BALLS To Play" in white letters against a black background.

A soccer ball on grass with pixelated text reading "It Takes BALLS To Play" in white letters against a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; static image with fixed composition.

Composition

  • left: soccer ball on grass; right: vertical text layout

Dense Caption

The image shows a 3D-rendered soccer ball with black and white pentagonal panels resting on green grass. The left portion of the image displays this scene, while the right side features four lines of pixelated white text: "It", "Takes", "To Play" arranged vertically below "BALLS" which is horizontally centered beneath the grassy section. All text appears in a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. The background behind the text is solid black. The soccer ball has visible shading indicating light source from above-left. No animation changes are present as this is a static image.

Description

  • A soccer ball on grass with pixelated text reading "It Takes BALLS To Play" in white letters against a black background.

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

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • soccer ball grass text it takes balls to play
  • pixelated soccer ball black background white text
  • 3d rendered football green grass "it takes balls to play"

Preprocessing Notes

  • Image appears to be a static graphic with no animation frames observed.
  • quarantined wordwall: black and white panels

Visible Text

  • It
  • Takes
  • To
  • Play
  • BALLS

Wordwall

  • soccer ball
  • grass background
  • black and white
  • pixelated text
  • white letters on black
  • "It Takes To Play"
  • "BALLS"
  • 3D rendering
  • low-resolution font

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091121164436361809015
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
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/86/862456d3acf256c6d3ea3eb17cbeb14ea569e77e04336f6914f94c51042f7bdd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
862456d3acf256c6
SHA-256
862456d3acf256c6d3ea3eb17cbeb14ea569e77e04336f6914f94c51042f7bdd
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:21 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097160

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A soccer ball on grass with pixelated text reading "It Takes BALLS To Play" in white letters against a black background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 20:30 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,130 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 604

Review tags

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  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • grass (object, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
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  • soccer ball (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; static image with fixed composition.

Colors

  • black
  • green
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • left: soccer ball on grass; right: vertical text layout

Dense Caption

The image shows a 3D-rendered soccer ball with black and white pentagonal panels resting on green grass. The left portion of the image displays this scene, while the right side features four lines of pixelated white text: "It", "Takes", "To Play" arranged vertically below "BALLS" which is horizontally centered beneath the grassy section. All text appears in a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. The background behind the text is solid black. The soccer ball has visible shading indicating light source from above-left. No animation changes are present as this is a static image.

Description

  • A soccer ball on grass with pixelated text reading "It Takes BALLS To Play" in white letters against a black background.

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

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • soccer ball grass text it takes balls to play
  • pixelated soccer ball black background white text
  • 3d rendered football green grass "it takes balls to play"

Objects

  • grass

Preprocessing Notes

  • Image appears to be a static graphic with no animation frames observed.
  • quarantined wordwall: black and white panels

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text
  • low-resolution graphics

Subjects

  • soccer ball

Visible Text

  • It
  • Takes
  • To
  • Play
  • BALLS

Wordwall

  • soccer ball
  • grass background
  • black and white
  • pixelated text
  • white letters on black
  • "It Takes To Play"
  • "BALLS"
  • 3D rendering
  • low-resolution 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
20091121164436361809015
Archive entry
20091121164436361809015.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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