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Animated icon shows a cartoon character with long brown hair, blue top, and red mouth, transitioning to a neon heart on purple background, then to basketball hoop with red ball and text.

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Animated icon shows a cartoon character with long brown hair, blue top, and red mouth, transitioning to a neon heart on purple background, then to basketball hoop with red ball and text.

Animated icon shows a cartoon character with long brown hair, blue top, and red mouth, transitioning to a neon heart on purple background, then to basketball hoop with red ball an…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • frame 1: character
  • frame 2: heart
  • frame 3: basketball

Animation Summary

  • Character transitions to heart, then to basketball with text.

Composition

  • four quadrants

Dense Caption

Top-left frame: cartoon character with long brown hair, blue top, red mouth, white eyes with black pupils, light blue background. Top-right frame: white neon heart outline on purple background, small white sparkles. Bottom-left frame: red basketball in black net, white text "B-ball!" below. Bottom-right frame: solid gray background. Animation sequence: character → heart → basketball. Pixel quality: low-resolution, pixelated.

Description

Animated icon shows a cartoon character with long brown hair, blue top, and red mouth, transitioning to a neon heart on purple background, then to basketball hoop with red ball and 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: 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

  • cartoon character basketball heart
  • neon heart purple background
  • B-ball text basketball net
  • pixelated animation sequence

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character
  • heart

Visible Text

  • B-ball!

Wordwall

  • cartoon character
  • long brown hair
  • blue top
  • red mouth
  • white eyes
  • light blue background
  • neon heart
  • purple background
  • sparkles
  • basketball
  • net
  • red ball
  • B-ball text
  • gray background
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090301131111295580605
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/13/13eaa22424d13d5043ba7e0035e35a4d9f2afcec0b3dbfa635b72febdee2620c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
13eaa22424d13d50
SHA-256
13eaa22424d13d5043ba7e0035e35a4d9f2afcec0b3dbfa635b72febdee2620c
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 09:15 UTC
Run
1315
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000061

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 30, 2026 at 04:25 UTC
Run
1245
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Overall label
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Overall score
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July 23, 2026 at 07:04 UTC
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Animated icon shows a cartoon character with long brown hair, blue top, and red mouth, transitioning to a neon heart on purple background, then to basketball hoop with red ball and text.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 01:12 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,858 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 734

Review tags

  • transitioning (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • energetic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • net (object, 0.80)
  • sparkles (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • basketball (subject, 0.80)
  • cartoon character (subject, 0.80)
  • heart (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • transitioning

Animation

  • frame 1: character
  • frame 2: heart
  • frame 3: basketball

Animation Summary

  • Character transitions to heart, then to basketball with text.

Colors

  • brown
  • blue
  • red
  • white
  • light blue
  • purple
  • gray

Composition

  • four quadrants

Dense Caption

Top-left frame: cartoon character with long brown hair, blue top, red mouth, white eyes with black pupils, light blue background. Top-right frame: white neon heart outline on purple background, small white sparkles. Bottom-left frame: red basketball in black net, white text "B-ball!" below. Bottom-right frame: solid gray background. Animation sequence: character → heart → basketball. Pixel quality: low-resolution, pixelated.

Description

Animated icon shows a cartoon character with long brown hair, blue top, and red mouth, transitioning to a neon heart on purple background, then to basketball hoop with red ball and 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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • playful
  • energetic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cartoon character basketball heart
  • neon heart purple background
  • B-ball text basketball net
  • pixelated animation sequence

Objects

  • net
  • sparkles

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • cartoon character
  • basketball
  • heart

Visible Text

  • B-ball!

Wordwall

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  • long brown hair
  • blue top
  • red mouth
  • white eyes
  • light blue background
  • neon heart
  • purple background
  • sparkles
  • basketball
  • net
  • red ball
  • B-ball text
  • gray background
  • 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
20090301131111295580605
Archive entry
20090301131111295580605.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#20090301131111295580605.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090301131111295580605.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016