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A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black logo on a blue background, next to red with text

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A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black logo on a blue background, next to red with text

A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black logo on a blue background, next to red with text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Share…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • softball on blue background
  • red with text

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated yellow softball with brown stitching and a black rectangular logo on its surface, positioned on a blue background. To the right, there are two red panels: the top panel contains a single black uppercase 'I', and the bottom panel contains the text 'LOVE' on the left and 'FROST SOFTBALL!' on the right. The text is in a pixelated font. The overall style is low-resolution and retro.

Description

  • A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black logo on a blue background, next to red with 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball yellow brown stitching
  • I LOVE FROST SOFTBALL!
  • blue background red
  • pixelated font text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black logo on a blue background, next to red panels with text.
  • quarantined wordwall: red panels
  • quarantined composition: red panels with text
  • quarantined retrieval: blue background red panels

Visible Text

  • I
  • LOVE
  • FROST SOFTBALL!

Wordwall

  • softball
  • yellow
  • brown stitching
  • black logo
  • blue background
  • red
  • I
  • LOVE
  • FROST SOFTBALL!
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904071619491723300538
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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/f3/f3d5dd320a07c785b568f3ac78d11ba3c539af2bde4c1d6e8002ed77003c95ae.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
f3d5dd320a07c785
SHA-256
f3d5dd320a07c785b568f3ac78d11ba3c539af2bde4c1d6e8002ed77003c95ae
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:04 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.112721

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black logo on a blue background, next to red with text

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 05:49 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,818 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 651

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • softball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • brown
  • black
  • blue
  • red

Composition

  • softball on blue background
  • red with text

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated yellow softball with brown stitching and a black rectangular logo on its surface, positioned on a blue background. To the right, there are two red panels: the top panel contains a single black uppercase 'I', and the bottom panel contains the text 'LOVE' on the left and 'FROST SOFTBALL!' on the right. The text is in a pixelated font. The overall style is low-resolution and retro.

Description

  • A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black logo on a blue background, next to red with 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • softball yellow brown stitching
  • I LOVE FROST SOFTBALL!
  • blue background red
  • pixelated font text

Objects

  • softball

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A pixelated softball with visible stitching and a black logo on a blue background, next to red panels with text.
  • quarantined wordwall: red panels
  • quarantined composition: red panels with text
  • quarantined retrieval: blue background red panels

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro

Subjects

  • softball

Visible Text

  • I
  • LOVE
  • FROST SOFTBALL!

Wordwall

  • softball
  • yellow
  • brown stitching
  • black logo
  • blue background
  • red
  • I
  • LOVE
  • FROST SOFTBALL!
  • pixelated font
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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
200904071619491723300538
Archive entry
200904071619491723300538.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#200904071619491723300538.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904071619491723300538.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016