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Pixelated green circles float on a pink background with black text reading 'basketball' and small symbols above it.

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Pixelated green circles float on a pink background with black text reading 'basketball' and small symbols above it.

Pixelated green circles float on a pink background with black text reading 'basketball' and small symbols above it. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal text span
  • scattered circles
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image features a static composition of large bright green circular shapes scattered across a solid pink background. Small dark vertical lines appear above the central area, each paired with a pixelated symbol resembling a stylized '3'. Below these elements, bold black text spans horizontally in a repeating pattern reading 'basketball', rendered in a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. The entire scene has a retro-pixel aesthetic with no visible motion or animation.

Description

  • Pixelated green circles float on a pink background with black text reading 'basketball' and small symbols above it.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green circles pink background basketball
  • pixelated basketball text
  • retro-pixel green circles
  • basketball repeated text

Visible Text

  • basketball

Visually Supported Entities

  • basketball

Wordwall

  • green circles
  • pink background
  • black text
  • 'basketball' repeated
  • stylized '3' symbols
  • pixelated rendering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710261253541090616503
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.2 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/30/309b58d1484a23b451196e0125bd2980c1449a407c4778f2ac4bc8f52672a798.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
309b58d1484a23b4
SHA-256
309b58d1484a23b451196e0125bd2980c1449a407c4778f2ac4bc8f52672a798
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:34 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.282477

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated green circles float on a pink background with black text reading 'basketball' and small symbols above it.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 12:49 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,737 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,150, response 589

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • retro pixel (style, 0.80)
  • circles (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • green
  • black

Composition

  • horizontal text span
  • scattered circles
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image features a static composition of large bright green circular shapes scattered across a solid pink background. Small dark vertical lines appear above the central area, each paired with a pixelated symbol resembling a stylized '3'. Below these elements, bold black text spans horizontally in a repeating pattern reading 'basketball', rendered in a blocky, low-resolution font typical of early digital graphics. The entire scene has a retro-pixel aesthetic with no visible motion or animation.

Description

  • Pixelated green circles float on a pink background with black text reading 'basketball' and small symbols above it.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green circles pink background basketball
  • pixelated basketball text
  • retro-pixel green circles
  • basketball repeated text

Objects

  • circles
  • text

Style

  • retro-pixel
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • circles
  • text

Visible Text

  • basketball

Visually Supported Entities

  • basketball

Wordwall

  • green circles
  • pink background
  • black text
  • 'basketball' repeated
  • stylized '3' symbols
  • pixelated rendering
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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
200710261253541090616503
Archive entry
200710261253541090616503.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#200710261253541090616503.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710261253541090616503.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016