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A yellow softball with red stitching and black text on a blue gradient background, paired with blue text on black and gray

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A yellow softball with red stitching and black text on a blue gradient background, paired with blue text on black and gray

A yellow softball with red stitching and black text on a blue gradient background, paired with blue text on black and gray. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; static four- composition with text and softball imagery

Composition

  • four
  • top-left: softball
  • top-right: text
  • bottom-left: text
  • bottom-right: solid color

Dense Caption

The image is a four-panel composition. Top-left panel: a yellow softball with red stitching and black text reading "SPALDING" on a blue gradient background. Bottom-left panel: blue text on black background reads "#12 Doley 10-6". Top-right panel: blue text on black background reads "Starved Rock Bandits". Bottom-right panel: solid gray. All text is pixelated. The softball has visible stitching and a small dark logo near the bottom. The image is static with no animation observed.

Description

  • A yellow softball with red stitching and black text on a blue gradient background, paired with blue text on black and gray

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090502171240421808559
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball spalding starved rock bandits
  • doley 10-6 #12
  • spalding softball blue text
  • starved rock bandits doley 10-6
  • softball red stitching blue background
  • doley 10-6 starved rock bandits
  • spalding doley 10-6
  • starved rock bandits #12 doley

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A yellow softball with red stitching and black text on a blue gradient background, paired with blue text on black and gray panels.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No animation observed; static four-panel composition with text and softball imagery.
  • quarantined wordwall: solid gray panel
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid

Visible Text

  • SPALDING
  • Starved Rock Bandits
  • #12
  • Doley
  • 10-6

Wordwall

  • softball
  • red stitching
  • yellow ball
  • blue gradient background
  • black background
  • blue text
  • #12
  • Doley
  • 10-6
  • Starved Rock Bandits
  • SPALDING
  • pixelated text
  • solid gray

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090502171240421808559
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8f/8f37eca01c55515afa32f048b7c01b04f1aae6f353912f9ce568896c447db46d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
8f37eca01c55515a
SHA-256
8f37eca01c55515afa32f048b7c01b04f1aae6f353912f9ce568896c447db46d
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 02:55 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.022728

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:45 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.152024

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.924265onnx/unsafe0.152024onnx/nsfw0.110311onnx/nsfl0.041714
Enrichment records (1)
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A yellow softball with red stitching and black text on a blue gradient background, paired with blue text on black and gray

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 08:36 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,422 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 722

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text heavy (style, 0.80)
  • softball (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation observed; static four- composition with text and softball imagery

Colors

  • yellow
  • red
  • blue
  • black
  • gray

Composition

  • four
  • top-left: softball
  • top-right: text
  • bottom-left: text
  • bottom-right: solid color

Dense Caption

The image is a four-panel composition. Top-left panel: a yellow softball with red stitching and black text reading "SPALDING" on a blue gradient background. Bottom-left panel: blue text on black background reads "#12 Doley 10-6". Top-right panel: blue text on black background reads "Starved Rock Bandits". Bottom-right panel: solid gray. All text is pixelated. The softball has visible stitching and a small dark logo near the bottom. The image is static with no animation observed.

Description

  • A yellow softball with red stitching and black text on a blue gradient background, paired with blue text on black and gray

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090502171240421808559
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball spalding starved rock bandits
  • doley 10-6 #12
  • spalding softball blue text
  • starved rock bandits doley 10-6
  • softball red stitching blue background
  • doley 10-6 starved rock bandits
  • spalding doley 10-6
  • starved rock bandits #12 doley

Objects

  • softball

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A yellow softball with red stitching and black text on a blue gradient background, paired with blue text on black and gray panels.
  • quarantined animationSummary: No animation observed; static four-panel composition with text and softball imagery.
  • quarantined wordwall: solid gray panel
  • quarantined composition: four-panel grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-heavy

Subjects

  • softball

Visible Text

  • SPALDING
  • Starved Rock Bandits
  • #12
  • Doley
  • 10-6

Wordwall

  • softball
  • red stitching
  • yellow ball
  • blue gradient background
  • black background
  • blue text
  • #12
  • Doley
  • 10-6
  • Starved Rock Bandits
  • SPALDING
  • pixelated text
  • solid gray
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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
20090502171240421808559
Archive entry
20090502171240421808559.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#20090502171240421808559.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090502171240421808559.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016