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A soccer ball on grass with pixelated text reading 'best', 'sport', and 'ever' on a black background.

A soccer ball on grass with pixelated text reading 'best', 'sport', and 'ever' on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bu…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left-aligned ball
  • text distributed across black background

Dense Caption

The image shows a soccer ball with black and white panels resting on green grass. The ball is positioned on the left side of the frame. To the right of the ball, on a black background, there is pixelated text: 'best' appears in the upper right, 'sport' appears in the lower left, and 'ever' appears in the lower right. The text is rendered in a white, blocky, pixelated font. The grass background is a solid green color with a slightly textured appearance. The soccer ball has a realistic 3D rendering style with shading to indicate curvature. The overall image has a low-resolution, pixelated quality typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A soccer ball on grass with pixelated text reading 'best', 'sport', and 'ever' on a black 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • soccer ball grass text best sport ever
  • soccer ball black white green text
  • grass soccer ball text best sport ever
  • text best sport ever soccer ball
  • soccer ball text best sport ever
  • grass text best sport ever
  • black background soccer ball text
  • text best sport ever black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: black and white panels

Visible Text

  • best
  • sport
  • ever

Wordwall

  • soccer ball
  • black and white
  • green grass
  • pixelated text
  • best
  • sport
  • ever
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  • low-resolution
  • text on black
  • grass background
  • realistic ball
  • pixelated font
  • text placement
  • upper right text
  • lower left text
  • lower right text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707311243171410045281
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
868a668623337169
SHA-256
868a66862333716923b4b82689003cdf63fbd0ed5245b3bf976c0ba4ee2be2bd
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:36 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093089

OpenAI category scores

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A soccer ball on grass with pixelated text reading 'best', 'sport', and 'ever' on a black background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 16:53 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,031 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 772

Review tags

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

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • green

Composition

  • left-aligned ball
  • text distributed across black background

Dense Caption

The image shows a soccer ball with black and white panels resting on green grass. The ball is positioned on the left side of the frame. To the right of the ball, on a black background, there is pixelated text: 'best' appears in the upper right, 'sport' appears in the lower left, and 'ever' appears in the lower right. The text is rendered in a white, blocky, pixelated font. The grass background is a solid green color with a slightly textured appearance. The soccer ball has a realistic 3D rendering style with shading to indicate curvature. The overall image has a low-resolution, pixelated quality typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A soccer ball on grass with pixelated text reading 'best', 'sport', and 'ever' on a black 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

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  • text best sport ever soccer ball
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  • black background soccer ball text
  • text best sport ever black background

Objects

  • grass

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: black and white panels

Style

  • pixelated
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  • soccer ball

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  • sport
  • ever

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  • grass background
  • realistic ball
  • pixelated font
  • text placement
  • upper right text
  • lower left text
  • lower right text
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:56 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
200707311243171410045281
Archive entry
200707311243171410045281.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#200707311243171410045281.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707311243171410045281.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016