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Pixelated baseball with red stitching on left, blue background with yellow text 'baseball is life' on right.

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Pixelated baseball with red stitching on left, blue background with yellow text 'baseball is life' on right.

Pixelated baseball with red stitching on left, blue background with yellow text 'baseball is life' on right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Style

Mood

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static split composition with baseball on left and text on right.

Composition

  • split vertical
  • baseball left
  • text right

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated baseball with white surface and red stitching; red stitching forms curved lines across the ball's surface. Right side features a solid blue background with yellow pixelated text reading 'baseball is life' in two lines. The baseball has a shadow beneath it on a light gray background. The image is split vertically with the baseball on the left and text on the right.

Description

  • Pixelated baseball with red stitching on left, blue background with yellow text 'baseball is life' 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • baseball red stitching white surface
  • baseball is life yellow text blue background
  • pixelated baseball split composition
  • baseball shadow light gray background

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static split composition with no visible animation frames

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but no pixel-confirmed claims

Visible Text

  • baseball is life

Wordwall

  • baseball
  • red stitching
  • white surface
  • blue background
  • yellow text
  • pixelated
  • baseball is life
  • split composition
  • shadow
  • light gray background

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708181737071961766001
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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/af/af5a1de74225576368d989e0e8031731d8514624df9ae6bf1806f6929e8c1e2a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
af5a1de742255763
SHA-256
af5a1de74225576368d989e0e8031731d8514624df9ae6bf1806f6929e8c1e2a
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 11:23 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000486

OpenAI category scores

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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
0.143001

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated baseball with red stitching on left, blue background with yellow text 'baseball is life' on right.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 01:53 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,252 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 656

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • baseball (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static split composition with baseball on left and text on right.

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • blue
  • yellow
  • gray

Composition

  • split vertical
  • baseball left
  • text right

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated baseball with white surface and red stitching; red stitching forms curved lines across the ball's surface. Right side features a solid blue background with yellow pixelated text reading 'baseball is life' in two lines. The baseball has a shadow beneath it on a light gray background. The image is split vertically with the baseball on the left and text on the right.

Description

  • Pixelated baseball with red stitching on left, blue background with yellow text 'baseball is life' 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • baseball red stitching white surface
  • baseball is life yellow text blue background
  • pixelated baseball split composition
  • baseball shadow light gray background

Objects

  • baseball

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be a static split composition with no visible animation frames

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and topic coverage but no pixel-confirmed claims

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro

Subjects

  • baseball

Visible Text

  • baseball is life

Wordwall

  • baseball
  • red stitching
  • white surface
  • blue background
  • yellow text
  • pixelated
  • baseball is life
  • split composition
  • shadow
  • light gray background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:07 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)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200708181737071961766001
Archive entry
200708181737071961766001.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#200708181737071961766001.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708181737071961766001.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016