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A static image with a volleyball on the left and pixelated text on a teal background.

A static image with a volleyball on the left and pixelated text on a teal background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split layout: left image, right text

Dense Caption

The image is split into two sections: the top-left shows a white volleyball with visible seams resting on a brown surface, while the rest of the image features black pixelated text on a solid teal background. The text reads "If volleyball was easy then everyone could play boys, leave it to girls!" in multiple lines. The overall style is low-resolution and pixelated.

Description

  • A static image with a volleyball on the left and pixelated text on a teal 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 200711131913061438607857

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • volleyball text humor
  • teal background pixelated text
  • brown surface volleyball
  • if volleyball was easy then everyone could play boys leave it to girls

Visible Text

  • If volleyball was easy then everyone could play boys, leave it to girls!

Wordwall

  • volleyball
  • seams
  • brown surface
  • teal background
  • pixelated text
  • black text
  • multiple lines of text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711131913061438607857
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/98/9879b503deb3f4f74f85873e3465d34b78b7c98c4be5e1ceeff427fb9251aec2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:57 UTC
Archive ID
9879b503deb3f4f7
SHA-256
9879b503deb3f4f74f85873e3465d34b78b7c98c4be5e1ceeff427fb9251aec2
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:13 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.202429

OpenAI category scores

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A static image with a volleyball on the left and pixelated text on a teal background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 18:17 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,659 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 637

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • volleyball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • brown
  • teal
  • black

Composition

  • split layout: left image, right text

Dense Caption

The image is split into two sections: the top-left shows a white volleyball with visible seams resting on a brown surface, while the rest of the image features black pixelated text on a solid teal background. The text reads "If volleyball was easy then everyone could play boys, leave it to girls!" in multiple lines. The overall style is low-resolution and pixelated.

Description

  • A static image with a volleyball on the left and pixelated text on a teal 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • 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
  • 200711131913061438607857

Mood

  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • volleyball text humor
  • teal background pixelated text
  • brown surface volleyball
  • if volleyball was easy then everyone could play boys leave it to girls

Objects

  • volleyball

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • volleyball

Visible Text

  • If volleyball was easy then everyone could play boys, leave it to girls!

Wordwall

  • volleyball
  • seams
  • brown surface
  • teal background
  • pixelated text
  • black text
  • multiple lines of text
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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
200711131913061438607857
Archive entry
200711131913061438607857.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:57 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#200711131913061438607857.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711131913061438607857.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016