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A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a dark rectangular patch on its surface, set against a blue gradient background.

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A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a dark rectangular patch on its surface, set against a blue gradient background.

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left: softball on blue gradient background
  • right: cyan text with black pixelated text

Dense Caption

The image shows a yellow softball with brown stitching in red and white patterns. The ball has a dark rectangular patch near the top center of its visible face. The background is a solid light blue that transitions to darker blue at the bottom. To the right of the ball, on a cyan background panel, there is black pixelated text reading 'if you play hard you can win'. The entire image uses low-resolution pixel art style with blocky edges and limited color palette.

Description

  • A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a dark rectangular patch on its surface, set against a blue gradient 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball pixel art
  • if you play hard you can win text
  • yellow softball with brown stitching
  • blue gradient background cyan

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: cyan panel
  • quarantined objects: text panel
  • quarantined composition: right: cyan text panel with black pixelated text
  • quarantined retrieval: blue gradient background cyan panel

Visible Text

  • if you play hard you can win

Visually Supported Entities

  • softball

Wordwall

  • softball
  • yellow
  • brown stitching
  • dark patch
  • blue gradient background
  • cyan
  • pixelated text
  • if you play hard you can win

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710231335482081596402
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC

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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/ab/abc3733fd3dc653a231e3295f990f9b9b33dc00cc9008e862aa58b3c26073a19.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC
Archive ID
abc3733fd3dc653a
SHA-256
abc3733fd3dc653a231e3295f990f9b9b33dc00cc9008e862aa58b3c26073a19
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:39 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.177941

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a dark rectangular patch on its surface, set against a blue gradient background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 12:13 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,247 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 579

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • blocky edges (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • softball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • brown
  • blue
  • cyan
  • black

Composition

  • left: softball on blue gradient background
  • right: cyan text with black pixelated text

Dense Caption

The image shows a yellow softball with brown stitching in red and white patterns. The ball has a dark rectangular patch near the top center of its visible face. The background is a solid light blue that transitions to darker blue at the bottom. To the right of the ball, on a cyan background panel, there is black pixelated text reading 'if you play hard you can win'. The entire image uses low-resolution pixel art style with blocky edges and limited color palette.

Description

  • A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a dark rectangular patch on its surface, set against a blue gradient 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball pixel art
  • if you play hard you can win text
  • yellow softball with brown stitching
  • blue gradient background cyan

Objects

  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: cyan panel
  • quarantined objects: text panel
  • quarantined composition: right: cyan text panel with black pixelated text
  • quarantined retrieval: blue gradient background cyan panel

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky edges

Subjects

  • softball

Visible Text

  • if you play hard you can win

Visually Supported Entities

  • softball

Wordwall

  • softball
  • yellow
  • brown stitching
  • dark patch
  • blue gradient background
  • cyan
  • pixelated text
  • if you play hard you can win
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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
200710231335482081596402
Archive entry
200710231335482081596402.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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#200710231335482081596402.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710231335482081596402.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016