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Two baseballs with text overlays on the left, a softball player pitching on a field to the right.

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Two baseballs with text overlays on the left, a softball player pitching on a field to the right.

Two baseballs with text overlays on the left, a softball player pitching on a field to the right. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical split
  • left stacked objects
  • right action shot

Dense Caption

Left side shows two stacked baseballs with visible stitching; top ball has black pixelated text 'You think softball isn't a sport?', bottom ball has 'You might want to think again'. Right side displays a person in mid-pitching motion holding a yellow ball, wearing white sleeveless shirt, dark shorts, and knee-high socks on a dirt infield with green grass background. The image is split vertically into two panels.

Description

  • Two baseballs with text overlays on the left, a softball player pitching on a field to 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • baseball softball text pitch
  • pitching yellow ball humor
  • stitched baseballs text overlay
  • softball isn't sport think again

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined style: split-panel composition
  • quarantined composition: right panel action shot
  • quarantined composition: left panel stacked objects

Visible Text

  • You think softball isn't a sport?
  • You might want to think again

Visually Supported Entities

  • humor
  • baseball
  • softball

Wordwall

  • baseball
  • softball
  • pitching
  • text overlay
  • stitched baseballs
  • yellow ball
  • white shirt
  • dark shorts
  • knee-high socks
  • dirt infield
  • green grass

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080122104036902145934
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.8 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ba/ba685be44910a1730b7946cdc8e10b1be76bdd9955f3748823ac53d860045c8a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Archive ID
ba685be44910a173
SHA-256
ba685be44910a1730b7946cdc8e10b1be76bdd9955f3748823ac53d860045c8a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087377

OpenAI category scores

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Two baseballs with text overlays on the left, a softball player pitching on a field to the right.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 12:20 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,410 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 611

Review tags

  • pitching (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • tan (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • questioning (mood, 0.80)
  • stitched baseballs (object, 0.80)
  • yellow ball (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated text (style, 0.80)
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  • baseballs (subject, 0.80)
  • person pitcher (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • pitching

Colors

  • tan
  • red
  • black
  • white
  • green
  • beige
  • gray

Composition

  • vertical split
  • left stacked objects
  • right action shot

Dense Caption

Left side shows two stacked baseballs with visible stitching; top ball has black pixelated text 'You think softball isn't a sport?', bottom ball has 'You might want to think again'. Right side displays a person in mid-pitching motion holding a yellow ball, wearing white sleeveless shirt, dark shorts, and knee-high socks on a dirt infield with green grass background. The image is split vertically into two panels.

Description

  • Two baseballs with text overlays on the left, a softball player pitching on a field to 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

Mood

  • humorous
  • questioning

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • baseball softball text pitch
  • pitching yellow ball humor
  • stitched baseballs text overlay
  • softball isn't sport think again

Objects

  • yellow ball
  • stitched baseballs

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined style: split-panel composition
  • quarantined composition: right panel action shot
  • quarantined composition: left panel stacked objects

Style

  • pixelated text
  • split- composition

Subjects

  • baseballs
  • person (pitcher)

Visible Text

  • You think softball isn't a sport?
  • You might want to think again

Visually Supported Entities

  • humor
  • baseball
  • softball

Wordwall

  • baseball
  • softball
  • pitching
  • text overlay
  • stitched baseballs
  • yellow ball
  • white shirt
  • dark shorts
  • knee-high socks
  • dirt infield
  • green grass
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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
20080122104036902145934
Archive entry
20080122104036902145934.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 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#20080122104036902145934.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080122104036902145934.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016