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A static image shows a white volleyball on a brown surface with a yellow background containing blue text and repeated '<3' symbols.

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A static image shows a white volleyball on a brown surface with a yellow background containing blue text and repeated '<3' symbols.

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left-aligned volleyball
  • text and symbols on yellow background

Dense Caption

The image features a white volleyball with visible seams on a brown surface. The background is bright yellow with blue text reading 'WA', 'Volleyball', and 'Team'. Blue '<3' symbols are repeated across the yellow background. The image is static with no animation. The volleyball is positioned on the left side of the frame. The text and symbols are rendered in a pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A static image shows a white volleyball on a brown surface with a yellow background containing blue text and repeated '<3' symbols.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • volleyball team icon
  • blue text yellow background
  • 3 symbols volleyball
  • pixelated volleyball icon
  • vball team icon
  • yellow background volleyball
  • blue <3 symbols
  • vball team text

Visible Text

  • WA
  • Volleyball
  • Team

Wordwall

  • white volleyball
  • brown surface
  • yellow background
  • blue text
  • 'WA'
  • 'Volleyball'
  • 'Team'
  • <3 symbols
  • pixelated style
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200910011819272054139520
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
c156bd03f1137de2
SHA-256
c156bd03f1137de262c04b3957b0517fe96f6d5b1b8d29e2dc42154a4118c2e6
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 20:45 UTC
Run
15966
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Preprocessing
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July 23, 2026 at 19:37 UTC
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A static image shows a white volleyball on a brown surface with a yellow background containing blue text and repeated '<3' symbols.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 18:35 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,341 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 654

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
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  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
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  • volleyball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • brown
  • yellow
  • blue

Composition

  • left-aligned volleyball
  • text and symbols on yellow background

Dense Caption

The image features a white volleyball with visible seams on a brown surface. The background is bright yellow with blue text reading 'WA', 'Volleyball', and 'Team'. Blue '<3' symbols are repeated across the yellow background. The image is static with no animation. The volleyball is positioned on the left side of the frame. The text and symbols are rendered in a pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A static image shows a white volleyball on a brown surface with a yellow background containing blue text and repeated '<3' symbols.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • blue text yellow background
  • 3 symbols volleyball
  • pixelated volleyball icon
  • vball team icon
  • yellow background volleyball
  • blue <3 symbols
  • vball team text

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital graphics

Subjects

  • volleyball

Visible Text

  • WA
  • Volleyball
  • Team

Wordwall

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  • brown surface
  • yellow background
  • blue text
  • 'WA'
  • 'Volleyball'
  • 'Team'
  • <3 symbols
  • pixelated style
  • static image
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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
200910011819272054139520
Archive entry
200910011819272054139520.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#200910011819272054139520.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200910011819272054139520.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016