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A soccer ball on grass next to red text reading "SOCCER = LIFE" and a smiley face with the name "-JESS-MAN".

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A soccer ball on grass next to red text reading "SOCCER = LIFE" and a smiley face with the name "-JESS-MAN".

A soccer ball on grass next to red text reading "SOCCER = LIFE" and a smiley face with the name "-JESS-MAN". Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left: soccer ball on grass
  • right top: text "SOCCER = LIFE"
  • right bottom: smiley face and name

Dense Caption

The image shows a classic black-and-white paneled soccer ball resting on green grass. To the right, against a dark blue background, red pixelated text reads "SOCCER = LIFE" in three lines. Below this section, also on dark blue, is a red smiley face "]=" and the name "-JESS-MAN" in matching red pixelated font. The soccer ball has visible shading indicating a light source from above-left.

Description

  • A soccer ball on grass next to red text reading "SOCCER = LIFE" and a smiley face with the name "-JESS-MAN".

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive

Named Entities

  • JESS-MAN

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • soccer ball grass
  • SOCCER = LIFE smiley face
  • red text dark blue background
  • JESS-MAN pixelated icon

Visible Text

  • SOCCER
  • =
  • LIFE
  • =]
  • -JESS-MAN

Visually Supported Entities

  • JESS-MAN

Wordwall

  • soccer ball
  • grass background
  • red text
  • SOCCER = LIFE
  • =]
  • -JESS-MAN
  • dark blue background
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712281831122006452681
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 15:07 UTC
Archive ID
ffbfd30fe66bcd51
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:10 UTC
Run
1140
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.418934

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A soccer ball on grass next to red text reading "SOCCER = LIFE" and a smiley face with the name "-JESS-MAN".

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 05:33 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,367 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 613

Review tags

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  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • grass (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • soccer ball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • green
  • dark blue
  • red

Composition

  • left: soccer ball on grass
  • right top: text "SOCCER = LIFE"
  • right bottom: smiley face and name

Dense Caption

The image shows a classic black-and-white paneled soccer ball resting on green grass. To the right, against a dark blue background, red pixelated text reads "SOCCER = LIFE" in three lines. Below this section, also on dark blue, is a red smiley face "]=" and the name "-JESS-MAN" in matching red pixelated font. The soccer ball has visible shading indicating a light source from above-left.

Description

  • A soccer ball on grass next to red text reading "SOCCER = LIFE" and a smiley face with the name "-JESS-MAN".

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • enthusiastic
  • playful

Named Entities

  • JESS-MAN

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • soccer ball grass
  • SOCCER = LIFE smiley face
  • red text dark blue background
  • JESS-MAN pixelated icon

Objects

  • grass

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • soccer ball

Visible Text

  • SOCCER
  • =
  • LIFE
  • =]
  • -JESS-MAN

Visually Supported Entities

  • JESS-MAN

Wordwall

  • soccer ball
  • grass background
  • red text
  • SOCCER = LIFE
  • =]
  • -JESS-MAN
  • dark blue background
  • 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
200712281831122006452681
Archive entry
200712281831122006452681.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 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#200712281831122006452681.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712281831122006452681.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016