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A tennis ball and racket on a textured surface with changing text overlays.

A tennis ball and racket on a textured surface with changing text overlays. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes from 'always' to 'bounce' to 'back'
  • no movement of physical objects

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change sequentially from 'always' to 'bounce' to 'back' while physical objects remain static.

Composition

  • ball centered in left frames
  • racket partially visible behind ball
  • text above ball
  • solid gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

The image shows a yellow tennis ball resting on a brown, striped fabric background. A blue-framed tennis racket is partially visible behind the ball in all frames. The ball casts a dark shadow to its left. Text appears above the ball: 'always' in the top-left frame, 'bounce' in the top-right frame, and 'back' in the bottom-left frame. The rightmost section of the image is a solid gray rectangle with no visible content.

Description

  • A tennis ball and racket on a textured surface with changing text overlays.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071017145812571568709

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tennis ball text always
  • tennis racket bounce back
  • yellow tennis ball shadow
  • text changes tennis ball

Visible Text

  • always
  • bounce
  • back

Wordwall

  • tennis ball
  • tennis racket
  • brown striped fabric
  • yellow tennis ball
  • blue-framed racket
  • dark shadow
  • text overlays
  • always
  • bounce
  • back

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071017145812571568709
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/96/960328514d2d96940ee729bc060860b9700403d07c534426f676cf34789f1c3b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC
Archive ID
960328514d2d9694
SHA-256
960328514d2d96940ee729bc060860b9700403d07c534426f676cf34789f1c3b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:11 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074184

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A tennis ball and racket on a textured surface with changing text overlays.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 10:44 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,083 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 719

Review tags

  • text changes (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark shadow (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • fabric background (object, 0.80)
  • shadow (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • tennis ball (subject, 0.80)
  • tennis racket (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text changes

Animation

  • text changes from 'always' to 'bounce' to 'back'
  • no movement of physical objects

Animation Summary

  • Text overlays change sequentially from 'always' to 'bounce' to 'back' while physical objects remain static.

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • brown
  • gray
  • dark shadow

Composition

  • ball centered in left frames
  • racket partially visible behind ball
  • text above ball
  • solid gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

The image shows a yellow tennis ball resting on a brown, striped fabric background. A blue-framed tennis racket is partially visible behind the ball in all frames. The ball casts a dark shadow to its left. Text appears above the ball: 'always' in the top-left frame, 'bounce' in the top-right frame, and 'back' in the bottom-left frame. The rightmost section of the image is a solid gray rectangle with no visible content.

Description

  • A tennis ball and racket on a textured surface with changing text overlays.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071017145812571568709

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • tennis ball text always
  • tennis racket bounce back
  • yellow tennis ball shadow
  • text changes tennis ball

Objects

  • tennis ball
  • tennis racket
  • fabric background
  • shadow

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • tennis ball
  • tennis racket

Visible Text

  • always
  • bounce
  • back

Wordwall

  • tennis ball
  • tennis racket
  • brown striped fabric
  • yellow tennis ball
  • blue-framed racket
  • dark shadow
  • text overlays
  • always
  • bounce
  • back
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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
20071017145812571568709
Archive entry
20071017145812571568709.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 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#20071017145812571568709.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071017145812571568709.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016