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A basketball with visible seams and a light brown background, showing slight pixelation.

A basketball with visible seams and a light brown background, showing slight pixelation. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, L…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text appears in top-right corner between frames

Animation Summary

  • Text "# 1#" appears in the top-right corner between frames.

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows a close-up of a basketball with dark black lines forming its seams. The ball is rendered in shades of orange-brown with lighter highlights on the left side indicating a light source. The background is a solid light brown color. In the second frame, there is visible text "# 1#" in the top-right corner.

Description

  • A basketball with visible seams and a light brown background, showing slight pixelation.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712312052531256852781

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball seams orange-brown
  • light brown background pixelated
  • # 1# text basketball
  • seam lines basketball animation

Visible Text

  • # 1#

Wordwall

  • basketball
  • seams
  • orange-brown
  • light brown background
  • # 1#
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712312052531256852781
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
3.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/11/11e3941b860839e11771f67c577f37a712e7627ca29628c9bddab4fb44ed5509.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC
Archive ID
11e3941b860839e1
SHA-256
11e3941b860839e11771f67c577f37a712e7627ca29628c9bddab4fb44ed5509
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:02 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096565

OpenAI category scores

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A basketball with visible seams and a light brown background, showing slight pixelation.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 06:34 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,702 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,147, response 617

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • orange brown (color, 0.80)
  • text appears in top right corner between frames (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • basketball (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • text appears in top-right corner between frames

Animation Summary

  • Text "# 1#" appears in the top-right corner between frames.

Colors

  • orange-brown
  • black
  • light brown

Composition

  • close-up
  • centered subject
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image shows a close-up of a basketball with dark black lines forming its seams. The ball is rendered in shades of orange-brown with lighter highlights on the left side indicating a light source. The background is a solid light brown color. In the second frame, there is visible text "# 1#" in the top-right corner.

Description

  • A basketball with visible seams and a light brown background, showing slight pixelation.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712312052531256852781

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball seams orange-brown
  • light brown background pixelated
  • # 1# text basketball
  • seam lines basketball animation

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • basketball

Visible Text

  • # 1#

Wordwall

  • basketball
  • seams
  • orange-brown
  • light brown background
  • # 1#
  • pixelated
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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
200712312052531256852781
Archive entry
200712312052531256852781.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#200712312052531256852781.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712312052531256852781.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016