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A red basketball with black lines rests on a light brown surface, with orange background displaying text

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A red basketball with black lines rests on a light brown surface, with orange background displaying text

A red basketball with black lines rests on a light brown surface, with orange background displaying text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Share…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • basketball centered on light brown
  • text on orange

Dense Caption

A red basketball with black lines rests on a light brown surface. The background consists of an orange panel on the right and bottom, and a light brown panel on the top left. Text elements include 'KARA' in black pixelated font at the top right, '#13' in black pixelated font at the bottom left, and 'B-Ball' in black pixelated font at the bottom right. The basketball has a glossy surface with visible highlights.

Description

  • A red basketball with black lines rests on a light brown surface, with orange background displaying 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball red black lines
  • KARA B-Ball #13
  • red basketball orange background
  • basketball light brown surface

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A red basketball with black lines rests on a light brown surface, with orange background panels displaying text.
  • quarantined wordwall: orange panel
  • quarantined wordwall: light brown panel
  • quarantined composition: text on orange panels
  • quarantined composition: basketball centered on light brown panel

Visible Text

  • KARA
  • #13
  • B-Ball

Wordwall

  • red basketball
  • black lines
  • light brown surface
  • orange background
  • KARA text
  • #13 text
  • B-Ball text
  • pixelated font
  • glossy surface
  • light brown
  • orange

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070813065510646393383
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3b/3bff2de7f6490e34a4191cffd8a621a23242bc786f175872e35fe59601b09a29.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
3bff2de7f6490e34
SHA-256
3bff2de7f6490e34a4191cffd8a621a23242bc786f175872e35fe59601b09a29
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:46 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090279

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A red basketball with black lines rests on a light brown surface, with orange background displaying text

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 22:53 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,569 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 657

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • basketball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • light brown
  • orange

Composition

  • basketball centered on light brown
  • text on orange

Dense Caption

A red basketball with black lines rests on a light brown surface. The background consists of an orange panel on the right and bottom, and a light brown panel on the top left. Text elements include 'KARA' in black pixelated font at the top right, '#13' in black pixelated font at the bottom left, and 'B-Ball' in black pixelated font at the bottom right. The basketball has a glossy surface with visible highlights.

Description

  • A red basketball with black lines rests on a light brown surface, with orange background displaying 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball red black lines
  • KARA B-Ball #13
  • red basketball orange background
  • basketball light brown surface

Objects

  • basketball

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A red basketball with black lines rests on a light brown surface, with orange background panels displaying text.
  • quarantined wordwall: orange panel
  • quarantined wordwall: light brown panel
  • quarantined composition: text on orange panels
  • quarantined composition: basketball centered on light brown panel

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • basketball

Visible Text

  • KARA
  • #13
  • B-Ball

Wordwall

  • red basketball
  • black lines
  • light brown surface
  • orange background
  • KARA text
  • #13 text
  • B-Ball text
  • pixelated font
  • glossy surface
  • light brown
  • orange
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:26 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20070813065510646393383
Archive entry
20070813065510646393383.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#20070813065510646393383.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070813065510646393383.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016