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Static image of a black bowling ball and a white bowling pin with a red band on a light background, surrounded by repeated 'OMG' text on a purple field.

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Static image of a black bowling ball and a white bowling pin with a red band on a light background, surrounded by repeated 'OMG' text on a purple field.

Static image of a black bowling ball and a white bowling pin with a red band on a light background, surrounded by repeated 'OMG' text on a purple field. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM bud…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central image with text border
  • symmetrical text
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows a black bowling ball with a glossy surface and two white reflections on the left, positioned next to a white bowling pin with a red band around its upper section. The pin has a light beige base and a rounded top. Both objects rest on a light gray surface against a plain white background. Surrounding the central image is a solid purple border containing repeated white text 'OMG' in a pixelated font, arranged in vertical columns. The text appears in multiple rows on both sides of the central image. The entire composition is static with no visible motion.

Description

Static image of a black bowling ball and a white bowling pin with a red band on a light background, surrounded by repeated 'OMG' text on a purple field.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2007080913570891559038
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bowling ball pin OMG text
  • OMG bowling pin ball
  • purple border bowling text
  • glossy bowling ball red band
  • text-heavy bowling pin
  • static bowling ball pin
  • pixelated OMG text
  • bowling pin red band

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: vertical text columns
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical text columns

Visible Text

  • OMG

Wordwall

  • black bowling ball
  • white bowling pin
  • red band on pin
  • glossy ball reflections
  • light gray surface
  • white background
  • purple border
  • pixelated 'OMG' text
  • vertical text
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007080913570891559038
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/cc/cc1659f1f3d4ad99ba65167c676a27093945193d7e364e500a9e7822df86656a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 UTC
Archive ID
cc1659f1f3d4ad99
SHA-256
cc1659f1f3d4ad99ba65167c676a27093945193d7e364e500a9e7822df86656a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:43 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073666

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Static image of a black bowling ball and a white bowling pin with a red band on a light background, surrounded by repeated 'OMG' text on a purple field.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 21:22 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,549 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 820

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • surprised (mood, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • text heavy (style, 0.80)
  • bowling ball (subject, 0.80)
  • bowling pin (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • red
  • gray
  • purple

Composition

  • central image with text border
  • symmetrical text
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows a black bowling ball with a glossy surface and two white reflections on the left, positioned next to a white bowling pin with a red band around its upper section. The pin has a light beige base and a rounded top. Both objects rest on a light gray surface against a plain white background. Surrounding the central image is a solid purple border containing repeated white text 'OMG' in a pixelated font, arranged in vertical columns. The text appears in multiple rows on both sides of the central image. The entire composition is static with no visible motion.

Description

Static image of a black bowling ball and a white bowling pin with a red band on a light background, surrounded by repeated 'OMG' text on a purple field.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2007080913570891559038
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: games

Mood

  • playful
  • surprised

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • bowling ball pin OMG text
  • OMG bowling pin ball
  • purple border bowling text
  • glossy bowling ball red band
  • text-heavy bowling pin
  • static bowling ball pin
  • pixelated OMG text
  • bowling pin red band

Objects

  • bowling ball
  • bowling pin
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: vertical text columns
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical text columns

Style

  • pixelated
  • static
  • text-heavy

Subjects

  • bowling ball
  • bowling pin

Visible Text

  • OMG

Wordwall

  • black bowling ball
  • white bowling pin
  • red band on pin
  • glossy ball reflections
  • light gray surface
  • white background
  • purple border
  • pixelated 'OMG' text
  • vertical text
  • static image
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:01 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
2007080913570891559038
Archive entry
2007080913570891559038.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:37 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#2007080913570891559038.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007080913570891559038.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016