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Pixelated volleyball on brown background with blue text reading 'Grimmer gladiator volleyball #28' in white block letters

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Pixelated volleyball on brown background with blue text reading 'Grimmer gladiator volleyball #28' in white block letters

Pixelated volleyball on brown background with blue text reading 'Grimmer gladiator volleyball #28' in white block letters. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split background
  • left: volleyball on brown
  • right: text on blue

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated white volleyball with visible stitching on a brown background. Right side features a solid blue background with white pixelated text: 'Grimmer' on top line, 'gladiator' on second line, 'volleyball' on third line, and '#28' on fourth line. Text uses blocky, retro video game font. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout. No motion or animation observed.

Description

  • Pixelated volleyball on brown background with blue text reading 'Grimmer gladiator volleyball #28' in white block letters

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • volleyball #28
  • Grimmer gladiator volleyball
  • pixelated volleyball blue background
  • retro volleyball icon
  • blocky text volleyball
  • brown background volleyball
  • Grimmer gladiator #28
  • volleyball #28 blue text

Preprocessing Notes

quarantined description: Pixelated volleyball on brown background with blue text panel reading 'Grimmer gladiator volleyball #28' in white block letters.

Visible Text

  • Grimmer
  • gladiator
  • volleyball
  • #28

Wordwall

  • pixelated volleyball
  • brown background
  • blue background
  • white text
  • Grimmer
  • gladiator
  • volleyball
  • #28
  • stitching
  • retro font
  • block letters
  • low resolution
  • pixelation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808301256511603349422
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/db/db7f62dc4e3a8ef9031f828d5c0d9c86876e9cec8e5cdd54bad0768ad2e324dd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
db7f62dc4e3a8ef9
SHA-256
db7f62dc4e3a8ef9031f828d5c0d9c86876e9cec8e5cdd54bad0768ad2e324dd
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:51 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087347

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated volleyball on brown background with blue text reading 'Grimmer gladiator volleyball #28' in white block letters

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 22:13 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,945 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 622

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • volleyball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • split background
  • left: volleyball on brown
  • right: text on blue

Dense Caption

Left side shows a pixelated white volleyball with visible stitching on a brown background. Right side features a solid blue background with white pixelated text: 'Grimmer' on top line, 'gladiator' on second line, 'volleyball' on third line, and '#28' on fourth line. Text uses blocky, retro video game font. Image has low resolution with visible pixelation throughout. No motion or animation observed.

Description

  • Pixelated volleyball on brown background with blue text reading 'Grimmer gladiator volleyball #28' in white block letters

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • volleyball #28
  • Grimmer gladiator volleyball
  • pixelated volleyball blue background
  • retro volleyball icon
  • blocky text volleyball
  • brown background volleyball
  • Grimmer gladiator #28
  • volleyball #28 blue text

Objects

  • volleyball

Preprocessing Notes

quarantined description: Pixelated volleyball on brown background with blue text panel reading 'Grimmer gladiator volleyball #28' in white block letters.

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • blocky

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  • volleyball

Visible Text

  • Grimmer
  • gladiator
  • volleyball
  • #28

Wordwall

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  • brown background
  • blue background
  • white text
  • Grimmer
  • gladiator
  • volleyball
  • #28
  • stitching
  • retro font
  • block letters
  • low resolution
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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
200808301256511603349422
Archive entry
200808301256511603349422.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#200808301256511603349422.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808301256511603349422.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016