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A static image shows a black bowling ball and a white bowling pin with a red band against a light background, next to a red with pixelated text

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A static image shows a black bowling ball and a white bowling pin with a red band against a light background, next to a red with pixelated text

A static image shows a black bowling ball and a white bowling pin with a red band against a light background, next to a red with pixelated text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split left-right
  • left: bowling ball and pin on light background
  • right: solid red with text

Dense Caption

The image is split into two sections. On the left, a black bowling ball with three white finger holes rests on a light gray surface. Next to it stands a white bowling pin with a red band around its upper section. The background is a light gray gradient. On the right, a solid red panel displays pixelated text: 'Go' at the top, 'Plainedge' in the middle, and a row of black dots below. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

A static image shows a black bowling ball and a white bowling pin with a red band against a light background, next to a red with pixelated text

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2008120217473578031410
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bowling ball bowling pin
  • red band bowling pin
  • black finger holes bowling ball
  • pixelated Go Plainedge
  • red black dots
  • low-resolution digital graphics
  • split left-right composition
  • light gray background red

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static image shows a black bowling ball and a white bowling pin with a red band against a light background, next to a red panel with pixelated text.
  • quarantined wordwall: red panel
  • quarantined objects: red panel
  • quarantined composition: right: solid red panel with text
  • quarantined retrieval: light gray background red panel
  • quarantined retrieval: red panel black dots

Visible Text

  • Go
  • Plainedge

Wordwall

  • bowling ball
  • bowling pin
  • red band
  • black finger holes
  • light gray background
  • red
  • pixelated text
  • Go
  • Plainedge
  • black dots

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008120217473578031410
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/98/9881b532f894e3e00f4bffa8b14aeed940b585dea72c1b508166077876c3891a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Archive ID
9881b532f894e3e0
SHA-256
9881b532f894e3e00f4bffa8b14aeed940b585dea72c1b508166077876c3891a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.091763

OpenAI category scores

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A static image shows a black bowling ball and a white bowling pin with a red band against a light background, next to a red with pixelated text

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 11:56 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,838 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 770

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • black dots (object, 0.80)
  • red (object, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • bowling ball (subject, 0.80)
  • bowling pin (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red
  • gray

Composition

  • split left-right
  • left: bowling ball and pin on light background
  • right: solid red with text

Dense Caption

The image is split into two sections. On the left, a black bowling ball with three white finger holes rests on a light gray surface. Next to it stands a white bowling pin with a red band around its upper section. The background is a light gray gradient. On the right, a solid red panel displays pixelated text: 'Go' at the top, 'Plainedge' in the middle, and a row of black dots below. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

A static image shows a black bowling ball and a white bowling pin with a red band against a light background, next to a red with pixelated text

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2008120217473578031410
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bowling ball bowling pin
  • red band bowling pin
  • black finger holes bowling ball
  • pixelated Go Plainedge
  • red black dots
  • low-resolution digital graphics
  • split left-right composition
  • light gray background red

Objects

  • bowling ball
  • bowling pin
  • red
  • black dots

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static image shows a black bowling ball and a white bowling pin with a red band against a light background, next to a red panel with pixelated text.
  • quarantined wordwall: red panel
  • quarantined objects: red panel
  • quarantined composition: right: solid red panel with text
  • quarantined retrieval: light gray background red panel
  • quarantined retrieval: red panel black dots

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital graphics

Subjects

  • bowling ball
  • bowling pin

Visible Text

  • Go
  • Plainedge

Wordwall

  • bowling ball
  • bowling pin
  • red band
  • black finger holes
  • light gray background
  • red
  • pixelated text
  • Go
  • Plainedge
  • black dots
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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
2008120217473578031410
Archive entry
2008120217473578031410.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 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#2008120217473578031410.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008120217473578031410.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016