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A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black logo on a blue background, paired with purple text reading 'katie is my softball is my game name and' on a purple background.

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A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black logo on a blue background, paired with purple text reading 'katie is my softball is my game name and' on a purple background.

A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black logo on a blue background, paired with purple text reading 'katie is my softball is my game name and' on a purple backgroun…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two color blocks
  • text on right and bottom
  • softball on left

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated yellow softball with brown stitching and a black rectangular logo on its surface, positioned on a blue background. To the right and below, purple pixelated text reads 'katie is my softball is my game name and' across multiple lines. The softball has a textured appearance with visible stitching patterns and a small dark spot near the bottom. The background consists of two distinct color blocks: blue on the left and purple on the right. The text uses a blocky, pixelated font style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black logo on a blue background, paired with purple text reading 'katie is my softball is my game name and' on a purple 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball yellow brown stitching
  • katie is my softball game
  • purple text blue background
  • pixelated softball logo
  • softball game name and
  • yellow ball brown lines
  • blue purple background text
  • black rectangle softball

Visible Text

  • katie is my
  • softball is my
  • game name and

Wordwall

  • softball
  • yellow
  • brown stitching
  • black logo
  • blue background
  • purple text
  • katie is my
  • softball is my
  • game name and
  • pixelated
  • stitching patterns
  • blocky font
  • two color blocks
  • text on purple
  • text on blue
  • small dark spot
  • yellow ball
  • brown lines
  • black rectangle
  • blue and purple

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070725071527887165702
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 14:33 UTC
Archive ID
a990c24b5722741c
SHA-256
a990c24b5722741c10438c53d00790e56b5385b838076a650f3f1fad6d79591f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:23 UTC
Run
1135
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Overall label
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Overall score
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black logo on a blue background, paired with purple text reading 'katie is my softball is my game name and' on a purple background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 14:05 UTC
Run
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Version
v5
Elapsed
8,951 ms
Tokens
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Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • yellow
  • brown
  • black
  • blue
  • purple

Composition

  • two color blocks
  • text on right and bottom
  • softball on left

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated yellow softball with brown stitching and a black rectangular logo on its surface, positioned on a blue background. To the right and below, purple pixelated text reads 'katie is my softball is my game name and' across multiple lines. The softball has a textured appearance with visible stitching patterns and a small dark spot near the bottom. The background consists of two distinct color blocks: blue on the left and purple on the right. The text uses a blocky, pixelated font style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black logo on a blue background, paired with purple text reading 'katie is my softball is my game name and' on a purple 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball yellow brown stitching
  • katie is my softball game
  • purple text blue background
  • pixelated softball logo
  • softball game name and
  • yellow ball brown lines
  • blue purple background text
  • black rectangle softball

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  • softball

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  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • low-resolution graphics

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Visible Text

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  • softball is my
  • game name and

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  • stitching patterns
  • blocky font
  • two color blocks
  • text on purple
  • text on blue
  • small dark spot
  • yellow ball
  • brown lines
  • black rectangle
  • blue and purple
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:10 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20070725071527887165702
Archive entry
20070725071527887165702.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 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#20070725071527887165702.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070725071527887165702.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016