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A yellow softball with red stitching and a black logo, set against a blue gradient background with text below.

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A yellow softball with red stitching and a black logo, set against a blue gradient background with text below.

A yellow softball with red stitching and a black logo, set against a blue gradient background with text below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered softball
  • text below
  • blue gradient background

Dense Caption

The image shows a yellow softball with red stitching and a black logo on its surface. The background is a blue gradient. Below the softball, the text 'SOFTBALL!!!' appears in blue pixelated letters on the left, and 'ROCKS' appears in blue pixelated letters on the right. The softball is centered in the upper portion of the image.

Description

  • A yellow softball with red stitching and a black logo, set against a blue gradient background with text below.

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 rocks
  • yellow softball red stitching
  • softball logo blue background
  • pixelated softball text

Visible Text

  • SOFTBALL!!!
  • ROCKS

Wordwall

  • yellow softball
  • red stitching
  • black logo
  • blue gradient background
  • SOFTBALL!!!
  • ROCKS
  • pixelated text
  • centered softball

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070820110841210992314
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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/c1/c1b8c4750ac7adef001f0ebd391e3156c99951b4fcc071cdfd9f1fbe36e9c3cc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
c1b8c4750ac7adef
SHA-256
c1b8c4750ac7adef001f0ebd391e3156c99951b4fcc071cdfd9f1fbe36e9c3cc
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:37 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.099357

OpenAI category scores

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

A yellow softball with red stitching and a black logo, set against a blue gradient background with text below.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 02:39 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,008 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 614

Review tags

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

Colors

  • yellow
  • red
  • black
  • blue

Composition

  • centered softball
  • text below
  • blue gradient background

Dense Caption

The image shows a yellow softball with red stitching and a black logo on its surface. The background is a blue gradient. Below the softball, the text 'SOFTBALL!!!' appears in blue pixelated letters on the left, and 'ROCKS' appears in blue pixelated letters on the right. The softball is centered in the upper portion of the image.

Description

  • A yellow softball with red stitching and a black logo, set against a blue gradient background with text below.

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 rocks
  • yellow softball red stitching
  • softball logo blue background
  • pixelated softball text

Objects

  • softball

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • softball

Visible Text

  • SOFTBALL!!!
  • ROCKS

Wordwall

  • yellow softball
  • red stitching
  • black logo
  • blue gradient background
  • SOFTBALL!!!
  • ROCKS
  • pixelated text
  • centered softball
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:19 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)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070820110841210992314
Archive entry
20070820110841210992314.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#20070820110841210992314.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070820110841210992314.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016