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Pixelated purple text and white stars on black background with repeated SMS BASKETBALL #14 - IxVxy - text blocks.

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Pixelated purple text and white stars on black background with repeated SMS BASKETBALL #14 - IxVxy - text blocks.

Pixelated purple text and white stars on black background with repeated SMS BASKETBALL #14 - IxVxy - text blocks. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes between observations; identical static text blocks and stars.

Composition

  • two identical horizontal text blocks
  • stars scattered on background

Dense Caption

Black background with white four-pointed stars scattered throughout. Two identical horizontal text blocks in purple pixelated font: 'SMS' above 'BASKETBALL' above '# 14' above '- IxVxy -'. Each text block is duplicated side-by-side. Text is rendered in a retro 8-bit style with visible pixelation. The stars are static and do not change between observations. The text blocks are identical in both observations, showing no animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated purple text and white stars on black background with repeated SMS BASKETBALL #14 - IxVxy - text blocks.

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 topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200811271947221988240546
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball sms
  • sms basketball #14
  • ixvxy text
  • purple pixelated text
  • retro 8-bit basketball icon
  • basketball #14 text
  • sms basketball icon
  • basketball text blocks

Visible Text

  • SMS
  • BASKETBALL
  • # 14
  • - IxVxy -

Wordwall

  • purple pixelated text
  • white four-pointed stars
  • black background
  • SMS text
  • BASKETBALL text
  • # 14 text
  • - IxVxy - text
  • retro 8-bit style
  • identical text blocks
  • two horizontal blocks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811271947221988240546
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
670 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/31/310c967adf39f8f2885fa0912e69bd3db93550b1072bc572af0265406fff7512.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 UTC
Archive ID
310c967adf39f8f2
SHA-256
310c967adf39f8f2885fa0912e69bd3db93550b1072bc572af0265406fff7512
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
0.125764

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated purple text and white stars on black background with repeated SMS BASKETBALL #14 - IxVxy - text blocks.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 11:04 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,616 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 645

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro 8 bit (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes between observations; identical static text blocks and stars.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • purple

Composition

  • two identical horizontal text blocks
  • stars scattered on background

Dense Caption

Black background with white four-pointed stars scattered throughout. Two identical horizontal text blocks in purple pixelated font: 'SMS' above 'BASKETBALL' above '# 14' above '- IxVxy -'. Each text block is duplicated side-by-side. Text is rendered in a retro 8-bit style with visible pixelation. The stars are static and do not change between observations. The text blocks are identical in both observations, showing no animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated purple text and white stars on black background with repeated SMS BASKETBALL #14 - IxVxy - text blocks.

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 topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200811271947221988240546
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball sms
  • sms basketball #14
  • ixvxy text
  • purple pixelated text
  • retro 8-bit basketball icon
  • basketball #14 text
  • sms basketball icon
  • basketball text blocks

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro 8-bit

Visible Text

  • SMS
  • BASKETBALL
  • # 14
  • - IxVxy -

Wordwall

  • purple pixelated text
  • white four-pointed stars
  • black background
  • SMS text
  • BASKETBALL text
  • # 14 text
  • - IxVxy - text
  • retro 8-bit style
  • identical text blocks
  • two horizontal blocks
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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
200811271947221988240546
Archive entry
200811271947221988240546.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:44 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#200811271947221988240546.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811271947221988240546.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016