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Pixelated orange text reads "Maltby Volleyball #17" above five white and gray plus signs on a black background.

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Pixelated orange text reads "Maltby Volleyball #17" above five white and gray plus signs on a black background.

Pixelated orange text reads "Maltby Volleyball #17" above five white and gray plus signs on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Color

Source terms

Animation

  • left frame shows three white plus signs, one gray, two white; right frame swaps second and third positions of white plus signs

Animation Summary

  • The second and third white plus signs swap positions between frames.

Composition

  • text centered top
  • symbols centered bottom

Dense Caption

Black background with pixelated orange text: top line "Maltby", middle line "Volleyball", bottom line "#17". Below text, five small plus signs arranged horizontally; leftmost three are white, fourth is gray, rightmost two are white. Text and symbols use blocky 8-bit style.

Description

  • Pixelated orange text reads "Maltby Volleyball #17" above five white and gray plus signs 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070915180152506199800

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Maltby Volleyball #17
  • orange pixelated text black background
  • plus signs animation
  • blocky 8-bit style

Visible Text

  • Maltby
  • Volleyball
  • #17

Wordwall

  • black background
  • orange pixelated text
  • "Maltby"
  • "Volleyball"
  • #17
  • five plus signs
  • white plus signs
  • gray plus sign
  • blocky 8-bit style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070915180152506199800
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
976 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 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 14:45 UTC
Archive ID
8b26eafa6378dae9
SHA-256
8b26eafa6378dae94f536b5e81135dc1c6a36b8a4a753391a2c18955659aa18f
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:41 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084511

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Pixelated orange text reads "Maltby Volleyball #17" above five white and gray plus signs on a black background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 02:27 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,180 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 647

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • plus signs (object, 0.80)
  • blocky 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • left frame shows three white plus signs, one gray, two white; right frame swaps second and third positions of white plus signs

Animation Summary

  • The second and third white plus signs swap positions between frames.

Colors

  • black
  • orange
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • text centered top
  • symbols centered bottom

Dense Caption

Black background with pixelated orange text: top line "Maltby", middle line "Volleyball", bottom line "#17". Below text, five small plus signs arranged horizontally; leftmost three are white, fourth is gray, rightmost two are white. Text and symbols use blocky 8-bit style.

Description

  • Pixelated orange text reads "Maltby Volleyball #17" above five white and gray plus signs 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20070915180152506199800

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Maltby Volleyball #17
  • orange pixelated text black background
  • plus signs animation
  • blocky 8-bit style

Objects

  • plus signs

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky 8-bit

Visible Text

  • Maltby
  • Volleyball
  • #17

Wordwall

  • black background
  • orange pixelated text
  • "Maltby"
  • "Volleyball"
  • #17
  • five plus signs
  • white plus signs
  • gray plus sign
  • blocky 8-bit style
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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
20070915180152506199800
Archive entry
20070915180152506199800.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 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#20070915180152506199800.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070915180152506199800.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016