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A yellow softball with red stitching is centered on a dark background with a spiderweb pattern, surrounded by yellow text on a blue background.

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A yellow softball with red stitching is centered on a dark background with a spiderweb pattern, surrounded by yellow text on a blue background.

A yellow softball with red stitching is centered on a dark background with a spiderweb pattern, surrounded by yellow text on a blue background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon f…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central softball
  • text sections
  • blue background
  • gray section

Dense Caption

A yellow softball with red stitching is centered on a dark background with a spiderweb pattern. Surrounding the softball, yellow text on a blue background reads "Softball...", "It's not just a game", "It's a way of life!", and "Fast Pitch Pitcher 4 Life!". The text has a black outline. The image is divided into sections with a blue background on the left and right, and a gray section on the bottom right.

Description

A yellow softball with red stitching is centered on a dark background with a spiderweb pattern, surrounded by yellow text on a blue 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 topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081012200821219014628
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball red stitching
  • fast pitch pitcher 4 life
  • it's not just a game
  • it's a way of life
  • yellow softball spiderweb
  • blue background yellow text
  • softball text
  • fast pitch pitcher text

Visible Text

  • Softball...
  • It's not just a game
  • It's a way of life!
  • Fast Pitch Pitcher 4 Life!

Wordwall

  • yellow softball
  • red stitching
  • spiderweb background
  • yellow text
  • blue background
  • black outline
  • Fast Pitch Pitcher 4 Life!
  • It's not just a game
  • It's a way of life!
  • Softball...

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081012200821219014628
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
4.7 KB
Motion
Animated (5 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 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
9f8dd3a328ed506c
SHA-256
9f8dd3a328ed506cefb99a1d226f53666bfbc6304de68d9c0623e063606ce2e9
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.107601

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A yellow softball with red stitching is centered on a dark background with a spiderweb pattern, surrounded by yellow text on a blue background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 03:58 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,445 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,165, response 768

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • enthusiastic (mood, 0.80)
  • proud (mood, 0.80)
  • spiderweb (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text heavy (style, 0.80)
  • softball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • red
  • blue
  • black
  • gray
  • dark

Composition

  • central softball
  • text sections
  • blue background
  • gray section

Dense Caption

A yellow softball with red stitching is centered on a dark background with a spiderweb pattern. Surrounding the softball, yellow text on a blue background reads "Softball...", "It's not just a game", "It's a way of life!", and "Fast Pitch Pitcher 4 Life!". The text has a black outline. The image is divided into sections with a blue background on the left and right, and a gray section on the bottom right.

Description

A yellow softball with red stitching is centered on a dark background with a spiderweb pattern, surrounded by yellow text on a blue 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 topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20081012200821219014628
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • enthusiastic
  • proud

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  • fast pitch pitcher 4 life
  • it's not just a game
  • it's a way of life
  • yellow softball spiderweb
  • blue background yellow text
  • softball text
  • fast pitch pitcher text

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  • pixelated
  • text-heavy
  • blocky

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  • softball

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  • Softball...
  • It's not just a game
  • It's a way of life!
  • Fast Pitch Pitcher 4 Life!

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  • red stitching
  • spiderweb background
  • yellow text
  • blue background
  • black outline
  • Fast Pitch Pitcher 4 Life!
  • It's not just a game
  • It's a way of life!
  • Softball...
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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
20081012200821219014628
Archive entry
20081012200821219014628.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#20081012200821219014628.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081012200821219014628.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016