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A baseball with visible stitching and a black rectangular logo on a blue gradient background, next to red pixelated text on a bright green background.

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A baseball with visible stitching and a black rectangular logo on a blue gradient background, next to red pixelated text on a bright green background.

A baseball with visible stitching and a black rectangular logo on a blue gradient background, next to red pixelated text on a bright green background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; the baseball and text remain static across the frame.

Composition

  • baseball on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

The image shows a yellow baseball with brown stitching and a black rectangular logo containing indistinct white text. The baseball is positioned on the left side against a blue gradient background. To the right, on a bright green background, there is red pixelated text reading "Pict" at the top right and "xt to softtthe diction" at the bottom. The baseball appears static with no visible animation changes. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

A baseball with visible stitching and a black rectangular logo on a blue gradient background, next to red pixelated text on a bright green 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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • baseball yellow brown stitching black logo blue background green background red text
  • baseball logo blue green text pixelated
  • baseball stitching text green background
  • baseball blue green red text
  • baseball yellow brown black blue green red
  • baseball text green background pixelated
  • baseball logo blue background red text
  • baseball stitching blue background red text

Preprocessing Notes

  • text appears to be cut off or misrendered

Visible Text

  • Pict
  • xt to softtthe diction

Wordwall

  • baseball
  • yellow
  • brown stitching
  • black logo
  • blue gradient background
  • bright green background
  • red pixelated text
  • Pict
  • xt to softtthe diction

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2009020614400750454397
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b4/b4ec5007055efd42e809c07f36ea96da668d7b3c78fd22d9c2a9de82018d43b5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 UTC
Archive ID
b4ec5007055efd42
SHA-256
b4ec5007055efd42e809c07f36ea96da668d7b3c78fd22d9c2a9de82018d43b5
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 4, 2026 at 16:31 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000607

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:29 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.292728

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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A baseball with visible stitching and a black rectangular logo on a blue gradient background, next to red pixelated text on a bright green background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 21:47 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,389 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 784

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • baseball (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; the baseball and text remain static across the frame.

Colors

  • yellow
  • brown
  • black
  • blue
  • green
  • red

Composition

  • baseball on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

The image shows a yellow baseball with brown stitching and a black rectangular logo containing indistinct white text. The baseball is positioned on the left side against a blue gradient background. To the right, on a bright green background, there is red pixelated text reading "Pict" at the top right and "xt to softtthe diction" at the bottom. The baseball appears static with no visible animation changes. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

A baseball with visible stitching and a black rectangular logo on a blue gradient background, next to red pixelated text on a bright green 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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • baseball yellow brown stitching black logo blue background green background red text
  • baseball logo blue green text pixelated
  • baseball stitching text green background
  • baseball blue green red text
  • baseball yellow brown black blue green red
  • baseball text green background pixelated
  • baseball logo blue background red text
  • baseball stitching blue background red text

Objects

  • baseball

Preprocessing Notes

  • text appears to be cut off or misrendered

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital graphics

Subjects

  • baseball

Visible Text

  • Pict
  • xt to softtthe diction

Wordwall

  • baseball
  • yellow
  • brown stitching
  • black logo
  • blue gradient background
  • bright green background
  • red pixelated text
  • Pict
  • xt to softtthe diction
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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
2009020614400750454397
Archive entry
2009020614400750454397.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:51 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#2009020614400750454397.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2009020614400750454397.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016