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A static image shows a white spherical object on a brown background with four black text fragments on a pink background.

A static image shows a white spherical object on a brown background with four black text fragments on a pink background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Source terms

Composition

  • divided into two sections
  • text fragments positioned around central dividing line

Dense Caption

The image is divided into two sections: the top-left section contains a white spherical object with visible texture lines on a brown background, while the bottom-right section has a solid pink background. Four separate text fragments appear in black pixelated font: 'Born' in the top-right, 'To' in the bottom-left, and 'Play' in the bottom-right. The text fragments are positioned around the central dividing line. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance.

Description

  • A static image shows a white spherical object on a brown background with four black text fragments on a pink background.

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white spherical object pink background
  • Born To Play text
  • pixelated text fragments
  • divided sections white brown pink

Visible Text

  • Born
  • To
  • Play

Wordwall

  • white spherical object
  • brown background
  • pink background
  • black pixelated text
  • Born
  • To
  • Play
  • low-resolution
  • pixelated appearance
  • divided sections

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709011206091912325519
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fd/fd2c020b75c1f752c99c16331e20e04d147eaa36dd83ba4e4253ec6bce980af1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
fd2c020b75c1f752
SHA-256
fd2c020b75c1f752c99c16331e20e04d147eaa36dd83ba4e4253ec6bce980af1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:09 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.070465

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static image shows a white spherical object on a brown background with four black text fragments on a pink background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 08:53 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,914 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 649

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • spherical object (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • brown
  • pink
  • black

Composition

  • divided into two sections
  • text fragments positioned around central dividing line

Dense Caption

The image is divided into two sections: the top-left section contains a white spherical object with visible texture lines on a brown background, while the bottom-right section has a solid pink background. Four separate text fragments appear in black pixelated font: 'Born' in the top-right, 'To' in the bottom-left, and 'Play' in the bottom-right. The text fragments are positioned around the central dividing line. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance.

Description

  • A static image shows a white spherical object on a brown background with four black text fragments on a pink background.

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • white spherical object pink background
  • Born To Play text
  • pixelated text fragments
  • divided sections white brown pink

Objects

  • spherical object

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • spherical object

Visible Text

  • Born
  • To
  • Play

Wordwall

  • white spherical object
  • brown background
  • pink background
  • black pixelated text
  • Born
  • To
  • Play
  • low-resolution
  • pixelated appearance
  • divided sections
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:52 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200709011206091912325519
Archive entry
200709011206091912325519.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#200709011206091912325519.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709011206091912325519.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016