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A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black rectangular mark on its surface, set against a blue gradient background with orange text reading "Softball is LIFE" on the right.

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A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black rectangular mark on its surface, set against a blue gradient background with orange text reading "Softball is LIFE" on the right.

A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black rectangular mark on its surface, set against a blue gradient background with orange text reading "Softball is LIFE" on the…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered softball on left
  • text to right on black background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated yellow softball with brown stitching, a black rectangular mark on its surface, and a small dark spot near the bottom. The background is a blue gradient. To the right, on a black background, orange pixelated text reads "Softball is LIFE". The softball is centered on the left side of the image. The text is positioned to the right of the softball. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style.

Description

A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black rectangular mark on its surface, set against a blue gradient background with orange text reading "Softball is LIFE" on the 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball yellow brown stitching
  • softball black mark blue background
  • softball text softball is life
  • yellow softball blue background orange text
  • softball black background orange text
  • softball centered blue gradient
  • softball pixelated style
  • softball brown stitching black mark

Visible Text

  • Softball is LIFE

Wordwall

  • yellow softball
  • brown stitching
  • black rectangular mark
  • blue gradient background
  • orange pixelated text
  • black background
  • Softball is LIFE
  • centered softball
  • text to right of softball
  • pixelated style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070830153016615761246
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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/b7/b737a76b6b37db5b1e79d9821730b056797be1286aa5cba7f15a03ab3c3abe0b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
b737a76b6b37db5b
SHA-256
b737a76b6b37db5b1e79d9821730b056797be1286aa5cba7f15a03ab3c3abe0b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:31 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095295

OpenAI category scores

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

A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black rectangular mark on its surface, set against a blue gradient background with orange text reading "Softball is LIFE" on the right.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 08:00 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,075 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 697

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • softball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • brown
  • black
  • blue
  • orange

Composition

  • centered softball on left
  • text to right on black background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated yellow softball with brown stitching, a black rectangular mark on its surface, and a small dark spot near the bottom. The background is a blue gradient. To the right, on a black background, orange pixelated text reads "Softball is LIFE". The softball is centered on the left side of the image. The text is positioned to the right of the softball. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated style.

Description

A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black rectangular mark on its surface, set against a blue gradient background with orange text reading "Softball is LIFE" on the 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball yellow brown stitching
  • softball black mark blue background
  • softball text softball is life
  • yellow softball blue background orange text
  • softball black background orange text
  • softball centered blue gradient
  • softball pixelated style
  • softball brown stitching black mark

Objects

  • softball

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • softball

Visible Text

  • Softball is LIFE

Wordwall

  • yellow softball
  • brown stitching
  • black rectangular mark
  • blue gradient background
  • orange pixelated text
  • black background
  • Softball is LIFE
  • centered softball
  • text to right of softball
  • pixelated style
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:41 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
20070830153016615761246
Archive entry
20070830153016615761246.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#20070830153016615761246.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070830153016615761246.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016