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Blue background with orange text reading "rather be playing" and a yellow softball image with blue "softball" text.

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Blue background with orange text reading "rather be playing" and a yellow softball image with blue "softball" text.

Blue background with orange text reading "rather be playing" and a yellow softball image with blue "softball" text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • top-left text
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left text
  • bottom-right image-text combination

Dense Caption

The icon features a solid bright blue background. In the top-left quadrant, there is orange pixelated text spelling "rather" with black outline. Top-right contains orange pixelated text "be" with black outline. Bottom-left displays orange pixelated text "playing" with black outline. Bottom-right shows a yellow softball image on dark textured background with white rectangular overlay containing blue pixelated text "softball".

Description

  • Blue background with orange text reading "rather be playing" and a yellow softball image with blue "softball" text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rather be playing softball
  • blue background orange text softball
  • pixelated text four quadrant icon
  • yellow softball blue text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Visible Text

  • rather
  • be
  • playing
  • softball

Visually Supported Entities

  • softball

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • orange text
  • black outline
  • pixelated font
  • yellow softball
  • dark textured background
  • white rectangle
  • blue text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080419144314574858550
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e1/e115b1549afa6f381b2f0112df000a3d923b45926ff65fc45458d2998e1e8027.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 UTC
Archive ID
e115b1549afa6f38
SHA-256
e115b1549afa6f381b2f0112df000a3d923b45926ff65fc45458d2998e1e8027
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:54 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083609

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with orange text reading "rather be playing" and a yellow softball image with blue "softball" text.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 06:02 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,248 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 575

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text heavy (style, 0.80)
  • softball (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • orange
  • black
  • yellow
  • white

Composition

  • four-quadrant
  • top-left text
  • top-right text
  • bottom-left text
  • bottom-right image-text combination

Dense Caption

The icon features a solid bright blue background. In the top-left quadrant, there is orange pixelated text spelling "rather" with black outline. Top-right contains orange pixelated text "be" with black outline. Bottom-left displays orange pixelated text "playing" with black outline. Bottom-right shows a yellow softball image on dark textured background with white rectangular overlay containing blue pixelated text "softball".

Description

  • Blue background with orange text reading "rather be playing" and a yellow softball image with blue "softball" text.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rather be playing softball
  • blue background orange text softball
  • pixelated text four quadrant icon
  • yellow softball blue text

Objects

  • softball

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: four-quadrant grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • text-heavy

Subjects

  • text
  • softball

Visible Text

  • rather
  • be
  • playing
  • softball

Visually Supported Entities

  • softball

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • orange text
  • black outline
  • pixelated font
  • yellow softball
  • dark textured background
  • white rectangle
  • blue text
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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
20080419144314574858550
Archive entry
20080419144314574858550.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:23 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#20080419144314574858550.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080419144314574858550.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016