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A silver silhouette of a basketball player in mid-air holding a red sign with white text, transitioning from 'air' to 'jordan', and then holding a basketball.

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A silver silhouette of a basketball player in mid-air holding a red sign with white text, transitioning from 'air' to 'jordan', and then holding a basketball.

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Actions

  • text change

Animation

  • sign text changes from 'air' to 'jordan'
  • player replaces sign with basketball

Animation Summary

  • The sign text changes from 'air' to 'jordan', and the player replaces the sign with a basketball.

Composition

  • top-left player with 'air' sign
  • top-right player with 'jordan' sign
  • bottom-left player holding basketball
  • right-side gray rectangle

Dense Caption

The image shows a silver silhouette of a basketball player in mid-air against a black background. In the top-left view, the player holds a red rectangular sign with white lowercase text 'air'. In the top-right view, the same sign displays white lowercase text 'jordan'. In the bottom-left view, the player holds a white basketball instead of the sign. The right side of the image contains a solid gray rectangle. All elements are rendered in pixelated style.

Description

A silver silhouette of a basketball player in mid-air holding a red sign with white text, transitioning from 'air' to 'jordan', and then holding a basketball.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Michael Jordan

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080115145446971051865
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • Michael Jordan

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball player silhouette
  • sign air jordan
  • silver black red white gray
  • pixelated animation

Visible Text

  • air
  • jordan

Visually Supported Entities

  • Michael Jordan

Wordwall

  • silver silhouette
  • black background
  • red rectangular sign
  • white lowercase text
  • 'air' text
  • 'jordan' text
  • white basketball
  • pixelated rendering
  • gray rectangle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080115145446971051865
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/22/22fc8b145c5f396ac6395dbaf0bfa9f78cd0dbad4d0515a006e798f7e7f785db.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC
Archive ID
22fc8b145c5f396a
SHA-256
22fc8b145c5f396ac6395dbaf0bfa9f78cd0dbad4d0515a006e798f7e7f785db
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:20 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.109547

OpenAI category scores

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A silver silhouette of a basketball player in mid-air holding a red sign with white text, transitioning from 'air' to 'jordan', and then holding a basketball.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 10:42 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,239 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 726

Review tags

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  • holding sign (action, 0.80)
  • text change (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • silver (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • red rectangular sign (object, 0.80)
  • white basketball (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • silhouette (style, 0.80)
  • basketball player silhouette (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding sign
  • holding basketball
  • text change

Animation

  • sign text changes from 'air' to 'jordan'
  • player replaces sign with basketball

Animation Summary

  • The sign text changes from 'air' to 'jordan', and the player replaces the sign with a basketball.

Colors

  • silver
  • black
  • red
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • top-left player with 'air' sign
  • top-right player with 'jordan' sign
  • bottom-left player holding basketball
  • right-side gray rectangle

Dense Caption

The image shows a silver silhouette of a basketball player in mid-air against a black background. In the top-left view, the player holds a red rectangular sign with white lowercase text 'air'. In the top-right view, the same sign displays white lowercase text 'jordan'. In the bottom-left view, the player holds a white basketball instead of the sign. The right side of the image contains a solid gray rectangle. All elements are rendered in pixelated style.

Description

A silver silhouette of a basketball player in mid-air holding a red sign with white text, transitioning from 'air' to 'jordan', and then holding a basketball.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Michael Jordan

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080115145446971051865
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • Michael Jordan

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball player silhouette
  • sign air jordan
  • silver black red white gray
  • pixelated animation

Objects

  • red rectangular sign
  • white basketball

Style

  • pixelated
  • silhouette

Subjects

  • basketball player silhouette

Visible Text

  • air
  • jordan

Visually Supported Entities

  • Michael Jordan

Wordwall

  • silver silhouette
  • black background
  • red rectangular sign
  • white lowercase text
  • 'air' text
  • 'jordan' text
  • white basketball
  • pixelated rendering
  • gray rectangle
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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
20080115145446971051865
Archive entry
20080115145446971051865.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 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

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