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A white volleyball on a brown surface with yellow text and emoticons on a black background.

A white volleyball on a brown surface with yellow text and emoticons on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons……

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; the image is static.

Composition

  • split composition
  • vertical text arrangement

Dense Caption

The image shows a white volleyball with visible seams on a brown surface. The background is black with yellow text and emoticons. Text includes 'peace.', 'love.', and 'volleyball.' with repeated ':)', '<3', and '=]' emoticons. The text and emoticons are arranged in vertical columns. The image is static with no visible animation changes. The volleyball is positioned on the left side of the image. The text and emoticons are on the right side of the image. The text is in a pixelated font. The image has a low-resolution appearance. The colors are white, brown, black, and yellow. The composition is split between the volleyball image and the text/emoticons. The overall style is simple and pixelated, typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A white volleyball on a brown surface with yellow text and emoticons on a black 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • volleyball peace love
  • volleyball text emoticons
  • white volleyball brown background
  • yellow text black background
  • peace love volleyball emoticons

Visible Text

  • :)
  • <3
  • peace.
  • =]
  • love.
  • volleyball.

Wordwall

  • white volleyball
  • brown surface
  • black background
  • yellow text
  • pixelated font
  • ':)' emoticon
  • '<3' emoticon
  • '=]' emoticon
  • 'peace.' text
  • 'love.' text
  • 'volleyball.' text
  • vertical text arrangement
  • low-resolution appearance
  • split composition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090926152618670755021
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bc/bcbea5226d2c9223e26503bd74d0bb01eca3c832308aa20390691457a775dcf5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
bcbea5226d2c9223
SHA-256
bcbea5226d2c9223e26503bd74d0bb01eca3c832308aa20390691457a775dcf5
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:35 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.104353

OpenAI category scores

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A white volleyball on a brown surface with yellow text and emoticons on a black background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 18:20 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,104 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 640

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • volleyball (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; the image is static.

Colors

  • white
  • brown
  • black
  • yellow

Composition

  • split composition
  • vertical text arrangement

Dense Caption

The image shows a white volleyball with visible seams on a brown surface. The background is black with yellow text and emoticons. Text includes 'peace.', 'love.', and 'volleyball.' with repeated ':)', '<3', and '=]' emoticons. The text and emoticons are arranged in vertical columns. The image is static with no visible animation changes. The volleyball is positioned on the left side of the image. The text and emoticons are on the right side of the image. The text is in a pixelated font. The image has a low-resolution appearance. The colors are white, brown, black, and yellow. The composition is split between the volleyball image and the text/emoticons. The overall style is simple and pixelated, typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A white volleyball on a brown surface with yellow text and emoticons on a black 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • volleyball peace love
  • volleyball text emoticons
  • white volleyball brown background
  • yellow text black background
  • peace love volleyball emoticons

Objects

  • volleyball

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • volleyball

Visible Text

  • :)
  • <3
  • peace.
  • =]
  • love.
  • volleyball.

Wordwall

  • white volleyball
  • brown surface
  • black background
  • yellow text
  • pixelated font
  • ':)' emoticon
  • '<3' emoticon
  • '=]' emoticon
  • 'peace.' text
  • 'love.' text
  • 'volleyball.' text
  • vertical text arrangement
  • low-resolution appearance
  • split composition
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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
20090926152618670755021
Archive entry
20090926152618670755021.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#20090926152618670755021.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090926152618670755021.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016