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A pixelated softball with a face on it, set against a blue background with red text reading "Softball Is My Life" and "If It Was Easy It Would Be Called Baseball."

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A pixelated softball with a face on it, set against a blue background with red text reading "Softball Is My Life" and "If It Was Easy It Would Be Called Baseball."

A pixelated softball with a face on it, set against a blue background with red text reading "Softball Is My Life" and "If It Was Easy It Would Be Called Baseball.". Animated 48×48…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left: softball on white background
  • right: text on blue background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated green softball with visible stitching. The ball has two black oval eyes and a small curved mouth forming a neutral expression. To the right of the ball, on a solid blue background, red text reads "Softball Is My Life" in three lines. Below this, also on the blue background, additional red text reads "If It Was Easy It Would Be Called Baseball." The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

A pixelated softball with a face on it, set against a blue background with red text reading "Softball Is My Life" and "If It Was Easy It Would Be Called Baseball."

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071019191939462893364
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball with face text
  • blue background red text softball
  • if it was easy it would be called baseball
  • softball is my life pixelated

Visible Text

  • Softball Is My Life
  • If It Was Easy It Would Be Called Baseball

Wordwall

  • softball
  • green
  • stitching
  • black eyes
  • neutral mouth
  • blue background
  • red text
  • Softball Is My Life
  • If It Was Easy It Would Be Called Baseball

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071019191939462893364
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f3/f3a9f4887b1c5515fb362b2fa8a4d1006b963cb3eeeb834a67ab7ca319848de0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC
Archive ID
f3a9f4887b1c5515
SHA-256
f3a9f4887b1c5515fb362b2fa8a4d1006b963cb3eeeb834a67ab7ca319848de0
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:56 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.295895

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A pixelated softball with a face on it, set against a blue background with red text reading "Softball Is My Life" and "If It Was Easy It Would Be Called Baseball."

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 11:19 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,519 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 629

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • softball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • blue
  • red
  • black

Composition

  • left: softball on white background
  • right: text on blue background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated green softball with visible stitching. The ball has two black oval eyes and a small curved mouth forming a neutral expression. To the right of the ball, on a solid blue background, red text reads "Softball Is My Life" in three lines. Below this, also on the blue background, additional red text reads "If It Was Easy It Would Be Called Baseball." The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

A pixelated softball with a face on it, set against a blue background with red text reading "Softball Is My Life" and "If It Was Easy It Would Be Called Baseball."

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071019191939462893364
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball with face text
  • blue background red text softball
  • if it was easy it would be called baseball
  • softball is my life pixelated

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based

Subjects

  • softball

Visible Text

  • Softball Is My Life
  • If It Was Easy It Would Be Called Baseball

Wordwall

  • softball
  • green
  • stitching
  • black eyes
  • neutral mouth
  • blue background
  • red text
  • Softball Is My Life
  • If It Was Easy It Would Be Called Baseball
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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
20071019191939462893364
Archive entry
20071019191939462893364.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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#20071019191939462893364.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071019191939462893364.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016