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A pixelated volleyball on a brown background next to black text reading 'lady bandits volleyball #3' in white block letters.

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A pixelated volleyball on a brown background next to black text reading 'lady bandits volleyball #3' in white block letters.

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left: volleyball on brown background; right: black strip with white text

Dense Caption

The image shows a circular, pixelated white volleyball with visible stitching patterns against a solid brown background. To the right of the ball is a vertical strip of solid black background containing four lines of white pixelated text: 'lady', 'bandits', 'volleyball', and '#3'. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font style typical of early internet graphics. The overall resolution is low with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • A pixelated volleyball on a brown background next to black text reading 'lady bandits volleyball #3' in white block letters.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • volleyball lady bandits
  • lady bandits volleyball #3
  • pixelated volleyball brown background
  • retro digital text volleyball

Visible Text

  • lady
  • bandits
  • volleyball
  • #3

Visually Supported Entities

  • lady bandits volleyball #3

Wordwall

  • pixelated volleyball
  • brown background
  • black background strip
  • white block text
  • lady bandits volleyball #3
  • stitched ball pattern
  • retro digital font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008021009163736899649
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
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 15:13 UTC
Archive ID
9246aea05f6511e8
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:09 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.078762

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A pixelated volleyball on a brown background next to black text reading 'lady bandits volleyball #3' in white block letters.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 19:42 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,174 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,137, response 598

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • block text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • volleyball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • left: volleyball on brown background; right: black strip with white text

Dense Caption

The image shows a circular, pixelated white volleyball with visible stitching patterns against a solid brown background. To the right of the ball is a vertical strip of solid black background containing four lines of white pixelated text: 'lady', 'bandits', 'volleyball', and '#3'. The text uses a blocky, retro digital font style typical of early internet graphics. The overall resolution is low with visible pixelation throughout.

Description

  • A pixelated volleyball on a brown background next to black text reading 'lady bandits volleyball #3' in white block letters.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • volleyball lady bandits
  • lady bandits volleyball #3
  • pixelated volleyball brown background
  • retro digital text volleyball

Objects

  • volleyball

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • block text

Subjects

  • volleyball

Visible Text

  • lady
  • bandits
  • volleyball
  • #3

Visually Supported Entities

  • lady bandits volleyball #3

Wordwall

  • pixelated volleyball
  • brown background
  • black background strip
  • white block text
  • lady bandits volleyball #3
  • stitched ball pattern
  • retro digital 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
2008021009163736899649
Archive entry
2008021009163736899649.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 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#2008021009163736899649.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008021009163736899649.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016