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Brown football with white laces and black text on left; blue background with pixelated 'MIKE ROCKS !!!!!!!' text on right.

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Brown football with white laces and black text on left; blue background with pixelated 'MIKE ROCKS !!!!!!!' text on right.

Brown football with white laces and black text on left; blue background with pixelated 'MIKE ROCKS !!!!!!!' text on right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split vertical
  • left football on white background
  • right text on blue background

Dense Caption

The image is split vertically. Left side shows a brown American football with visible white laces, dark scuff marks, and partial black text reading "M..." (likely part of "Mike"). Right side has solid blue background with pixelated white text: first line reads "MIKE !!!!!!!", second line reads "ROCKS !!!!!!!!!". The football casts a subtle gray shadow on the left's white background.

Description

  • Brown football with white laces and black text on left; blue background with pixelated 'MIKE ROCKS !!!!!!!' text on right.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • football mike rocks
  • mike rocks football icon
  • pixelated mike rocks text
  • blue background football icon

Uncertain Text

  • M...

Visible Text

  • MIKE !!!!!!!
  • ROCKS !!!!!!!!!

Visually Supported Entities

  • Mike (text)

Wordwall

  • brown football
  • white laces
  • black scuff marks
  • blue background
  • pixelated text
  • MIKE !!!!!!!
  • ROCKS !!!!!!!!!
  • subtle shadow

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080509173157176788684
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 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/ad/adfea5f241f9d519dc2dd5fd002aa7483257efe9edf0221d76acecd47fadb284.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC
Archive ID
adfea5f241f9d519
SHA-256
adfea5f241f9d519dc2dd5fd002aa7483257efe9edf0221d76acecd47fadb284
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:26 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.107205

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Brown football with white laces and black text on left; blue background with pixelated 'MIKE ROCKS !!!!!!!' text on right.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 13:29 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,228 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,135, response 585

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • exuberant (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • laces (object, 0.80)
  • scuff marks (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • football (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • white
  • blue
  • gray

Composition

  • split vertical
  • left football on white background
  • right text on blue background

Dense Caption

The image is split vertically. Left side shows a brown American football with visible white laces, dark scuff marks, and partial black text reading "M..." (likely part of "Mike"). Right side has solid blue background with pixelated white text: first line reads "MIKE !!!!!!!", second line reads "ROCKS !!!!!!!!!". The football casts a subtle gray shadow on the left's white background.

Description

  • Brown football with white laces and black text on left; blue background with pixelated 'MIKE ROCKS !!!!!!!' text on right.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • exuberant

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • football mike rocks
  • mike rocks football icon
  • pixelated mike rocks text
  • blue background football icon

Objects

  • laces
  • scuff marks

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • football

Uncertain Text

  • M...

Visible Text

  • MIKE !!!!!!!
  • ROCKS !!!!!!!!!

Visually Supported Entities

  • Mike (text)

Wordwall

  • brown football
  • white laces
  • black scuff marks
  • blue background
  • pixelated text
  • MIKE !!!!!!!
  • ROCKS !!!!!!!!!
  • subtle shadow
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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
20080509173157176788684
Archive entry
20080509173157176788684.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 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#20080509173157176788684.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080509173157176788684.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016