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Blue background with white star shapes and "Softball" text in pixelated font, arranged in a pattern

Blue background with white star shapes and "Softball" text in pixelated font, arranged in a pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star shapes exhibit motion blur effects across observations

Animation Summary

  • Star shapes show motion blur effects across observations, indicating animation.

Composition

  • arrangement
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. White five-pointed stars of varying sizes and opacities scattered across the image; some stars have motion blur effects suggesting animation. Two rows of pixelated text reading "Softball" with double quotation marks on either side, positioned horizontally above and below the central star arrangement. Stars are distributed in a grid-like pattern with multiple instances of each size variation.

Description

  • Blue background with white star shapes and "Softball" text in pixelated font, arranged in a pattern

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 topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200805081709011016902403

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white stars softball
  • softball text pixelated font
  • animated star blue background
  • white five-pointed stars double quotes

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with white star shapes and "Softball" text in pixelated font, arranged in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined composition: grid arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: animated star grid blue background

Visible Text

  • "Softball"

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white stars
  • five-pointed stars
  • "Softball" text
  • pixelated font
  • motion blur effects
  • arrangement
  • double quotation marks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805081709011016902403
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 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 15:26 UTC
Archive ID
8e2ac8d4a6e23c68
SHA-256
8e2ac8d4a6e23c68206e950884a406d5681cc6796150841a3ee0121331ee98b3
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 31, 2026 at 04:11 UTC
Run
1249
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.000506

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:44 UTC
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1127
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Overall label
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Blue background with white star shapes and "Softball" text in pixelated font, arranged in a pattern

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 13:16 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,294 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 658

Review tags

  • star motion blur (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • star motion blur

Animation

  • star shapes exhibit motion blur effects across observations

Animation Summary

  • Star shapes show motion blur effects across observations, indicating animation.

Colors

  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • arrangement
  • symmetrical layout

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. White five-pointed stars of varying sizes and opacities scattered across the image; some stars have motion blur effects suggesting animation. Two rows of pixelated text reading "Softball" with double quotation marks on either side, positioned horizontally above and below the central star arrangement. Stars are distributed in a grid-like pattern with multiple instances of each size variation.

Description

  • Blue background with white star shapes and "Softball" text in pixelated font, arranged in a pattern

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 topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200805081709011016902403

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background white stars softball
  • softball text pixelated font
  • animated star blue background
  • white five-pointed stars double quotes

Objects

  • stars
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: grid arrangement
  • quarantined composition: grid arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: animated star grid blue background

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • animated

Subjects

  • stars
  • text

Visible Text

  • "Softball"

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white stars
  • five-pointed stars
  • "Softball" text
  • pixelated font
  • motion blur effects
  • arrangement
  • double quotation marks
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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
200805081709011016902403
Archive entry
200805081709011016902403.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 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#200805081709011016902403.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805081709011016902403.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016