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A brown football with white laces and black text on a white background, next to red pixelated text reading "Mitch" repeated five times.

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A brown football with white laces and black text on a white background, next to red pixelated text reading "Mitch" repeated five times.

A brown football with white laces and black text on a white background, next to red pixelated text reading "Mitch" repeated five times. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Animation Summary

The icon is static; no visible content changes occur across observations. The animation metadata indicates it's an animated asset but the provided frame shows no motion or sequential change.

Composition

  • left: football on white background; right: text blocks on black background

Dense Caption

The image shows a single static frame of an animated icon. On the left side against a white background is a brown American football with visible white laces and dark printed text that appears to read "Pepsi" on its surface. The football casts a subtle gray shadow beneath it. To the right, on a black background, there are five lines of red pixelated text reading "Mitch" stacked vertically. Below this text block is another section containing four instances of a left-pointing arrow symbol («) and five instances of the number sequence "#52", all rendered in red pixelated font against the same black background.

Description

  • A brown football with white laces and black text on a white background, next to red pixelated text reading "Mitch" repeated five times.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080102135610825034007
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • football "Pepsi" text
  • red pixelated "Mitch" text
  • #52 left arrow symbol

Preprocessing Notes

The image appears to be a single static frame from an animated icon sequence, as indicated by the input metadata. The visible content shows no motion or change between observations.

Visible Text

  • Mitch
  • #52
  • «
  • «","«","«"],

Wordwall

  • brown football
  • white laces
  • black printed text
  • white background
  • red pixelated text
  • "Mitch" repeated 5 times
  • gray shadow
  • left-pointing arrow symbol («)
  • number sequence "#52"

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080102135610825034007
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC

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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/d5/d54acd6d7fb7b70a30717789a6d1285744864ab20a1625173468ce8a81c48cc5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC
Archive ID
d54acd6d7fb7b70a
SHA-256
d54acd6d7fb7b70a30717789a6d1285744864ab20a1625173468ce8a81c48cc5
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:48 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.108870

OpenAI category scores

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A brown football with white laces and black text on a white background, next to red pixelated text reading "Mitch" repeated five times.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 07:02 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,738 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 699

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static frame of animation (style, 0.80)
  • football (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

The icon is static; no visible content changes occur across observations. The animation metadata indicates it's an animated asset but the provided frame shows no motion or sequential change.

Colors

  • brown
  • white
  • black
  • red
  • gray

Composition

  • left: football on white background; right: text blocks on black background

Dense Caption

The image shows a single static frame of an animated icon. On the left side against a white background is a brown American football with visible white laces and dark printed text that appears to read "Pepsi" on its surface. The football casts a subtle gray shadow beneath it. To the right, on a black background, there are five lines of red pixelated text reading "Mitch" stacked vertically. Below this text block is another section containing four instances of a left-pointing arrow symbol («) and five instances of the number sequence "#52", all rendered in red pixelated font against the same black background.

Description

  • A brown football with white laces and black text on a white background, next to red pixelated text reading "Mitch" repeated five times.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080102135610825034007
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • football "Pepsi" text
  • red pixelated "Mitch" text
  • #52 left arrow symbol

Objects

  • football

Preprocessing Notes

The image appears to be a single static frame from an animated icon sequence, as indicated by the input metadata. The visible content shows no motion or change between observations.

Style

  • pixelated
  • static frame of animation

Subjects

  • football

Visible Text

  • Mitch
  • #52
  • «
  • «","«","«"],

Wordwall

  • brown football
  • white laces
  • black printed text
  • white background
  • red pixelated text
  • "Mitch" repeated 5 times
  • gray shadow
  • left-pointing arrow symbol («)
  • number sequence "#52"
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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
20080102135610825034007
Archive entry
20080102135610825034007.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 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#20080102135610825034007.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080102135610825034007.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016