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A pixelated baseball with red stitching and a black signature on the left side, next to blue text reading "Sean Smith #7" on a white background.

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A pixelated baseball with red stitching and a black signature on the left side, next to blue text reading "Sean Smith #7" on a white background.

A pixelated baseball with red stitching and a black signature on the left side, next to blue text reading "Sean Smith #7" on a white background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • baseball on left
  • text on right
  • white background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated baseball with white surface and red stitching. A black signature is visible on the left side of the baseball. To the right of the baseball, blue pixelated text reads "Sean Smith #7" on a white background. The baseball casts a dark shadow on the light gray background. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

A pixelated baseball with red stitching and a black signature on the left side, next to blue text reading "Sean Smith #7" on a white background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Sean Smith

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Named Entities

  • Sean Smith

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • baseball Sean Smith #7
  • baseball signature text
  • pixelated baseball blue text
  • baseball red stitching black signature

Visible Text

  • Sean Smith #7

Visually Supported Entities

  • Sean Smith

Wordwall

  • baseball
  • red stitching
  • black signature
  • blue text
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • Sean Smith
  • #7
  • shadow
  • light gray background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008062820134062494663
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ac/ac0a4f639646f8769836f2cab9d55026e30847081dc3e3a6612faf11f4a285a9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
ac0a4f639646f876
SHA-256
ac0a4f639646f8769836f2cab9d55026e30847081dc3e3a6612faf11f4a285a9
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:24 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085312

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated baseball with red stitching and a black signature on the left side, next to blue text reading "Sean Smith #7" on a white background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 09:22 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,660 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 566

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • baseball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • red
  • black
  • blue
  • light gray

Composition

  • baseball on left
  • text on right
  • white background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated baseball with white surface and red stitching. A black signature is visible on the left side of the baseball. To the right of the baseball, blue pixelated text reads "Sean Smith #7" on a white background. The baseball casts a dark shadow on the light gray background. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

A pixelated baseball with red stitching and a black signature on the left side, next to blue text reading "Sean Smith #7" on a white background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Sean Smith

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Named Entities

  • Sean Smith

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • baseball Sean Smith #7
  • baseball signature text
  • pixelated baseball blue text
  • baseball red stitching black signature

Objects

  • baseball
  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • baseball

Visible Text

  • Sean Smith #7

Visually Supported Entities

  • Sean Smith

Wordwall

  • baseball
  • red stitching
  • black signature
  • blue text
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • Sean Smith
  • #7
  • shadow
  • light gray background
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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
2008062820134062494663
Archive entry
2008062820134062494663.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#2008062820134062494663.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008062820134062494663.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016