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Two pixelated soccer ball icons with fiery borders, one displaying "Soccer is..." and the other "HOT!!!" in yellow text.

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Two pixelated soccer ball icons with fiery borders, one displaying "Soccer is..." and the other "HOT!!!" in yellow text.

Two pixelated soccer ball icons with fiery borders, one displaying "Soccer is..." and the other "HOT!!!" in yellow text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes from "Soccer is..." to "HOT!!!"

Animation Summary

The icon displays two states: one with "Soccer is..." text and another with "HOT!!!" text, both overlaid on a pixelated soccer ball with a fiery border.

Composition

  • two icons side-by-side
  • text overlaid on ball

Dense Caption

Two identical pixelated soccer balls with black and white panels and brown stitched borders, each surrounded by a fiery orange-yellow border. The left icon displays yellow pixelated text "Soccer is..." over the ball's surface; the right icon displays yellow pixelated text "HOT!!!" over the ball's surface. Both icons share the same background and composition. The text appears to be part of an animation sequence where the phrase changes from "Soccer is..." to "HOT!!!".

Description

  • Two pixelated soccer ball icons with fiery borders, one displaying "Soccer is..." and the other "HOT!!!" in yellow text.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • soccer ball fiery border
  • yellow text HOT!!!
  • Soccer is... soccer ball
  • pixelated soccer ball animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: black and white panels

Visible Text

  • Soccer is...
  • HOT!!!

Wordwall

  • soccer ball
  • fiery border
  • yellow text
  • pixelated
  • HOT!!!
  • Soccer is...
  • black and white
  • brown stitching

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806131337161819633137
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 UTC
Archive ID
e7e01039dc5b6900
SHA-256
e7e01039dc5b6900436074f471bbd45b879048bb481eb9a5ee1244341039fbbc
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:58 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.068167

OpenAI category scores

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Two pixelated soccer ball icons with fiery borders, one displaying "Soccer is..." and the other "HOT!!!" in yellow text.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 05:42 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,939 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 727

Review tags

  • text changes (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • energetic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • soccer ball (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text changes

Animation

  • text changes from "Soccer is..." to "HOT!!!"

Animation Summary

The icon displays two states: one with "Soccer is..." text and another with "HOT!!!" text, both overlaid on a pixelated soccer ball with a fiery border.

Colors

  • yellow
  • black
  • white
  • brown
  • orange

Composition

  • two icons side-by-side
  • text overlaid on ball

Dense Caption

Two identical pixelated soccer balls with black and white panels and brown stitched borders, each surrounded by a fiery orange-yellow border. The left icon displays yellow pixelated text "Soccer is..." over the ball's surface; the right icon displays yellow pixelated text "HOT!!!" over the ball's surface. Both icons share the same background and composition. The text appears to be part of an animation sequence where the phrase changes from "Soccer is..." to "HOT!!!".

Description

  • Two pixelated soccer ball icons with fiery borders, one displaying "Soccer is..." and the other "HOT!!!" in yellow text.

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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • playful
  • energetic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • soccer ball fiery border
  • yellow text HOT!!!
  • Soccer is... soccer ball
  • pixelated soccer ball animation

Objects

  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: black and white panels

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro

Subjects

  • soccer ball

Visible Text

  • Soccer is...
  • HOT!!!

Wordwall

  • soccer ball
  • fiery border
  • yellow text
  • pixelated
  • HOT!!!
  • Soccer is...
  • black and white
  • brown stitching
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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
200806131337161819633137
Archive entry
200806131337161819633137.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:29 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#200806131337161819633137.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806131337161819633137.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016