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A basketball on a wooden court background with green pixelated text reading 'BALL IS COOL' on a blue background.

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A basketball on a wooden court background with green pixelated text reading 'BALL IS COOL' on a blue background.

A basketball on a wooden court background with green pixelated text reading 'BALL IS COOL' on a blue background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcon…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left-right split
  • basketball on left
  • text on right
  • top-middle-bottom text alignment

Dense Caption

A basketball with brown leather texture and black seams rests on a light brown wooden court background. The right side features a solid blue background with green pixelated text: 'BALL' at the top, 'IS' in the middle, and 'COOL' at the bottom. The basketball is positioned on the left side of the image, with visible shadows indicating a light source from the upper left. The image uses a low-resolution pixel art style with limited color palette.

Description

  • A basketball on a wooden court background with green pixelated text reading 'BALL IS COOL' on a blue background.

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 wooden court blue background green text
  • ball is cool pixel art
  • low resolution basketball icon
  • green text ball is cool

Visible Text

  • BALL
  • IS
  • COOL

Wordwall

  • basketball
  • wooden court
  • blue background
  • green text
  • BALL
  • IS
  • COOL
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • seams
  • shadows
  • light source
  • brown leather
  • black seams
  • solid blue
  • light brown
  • text layout
  • top middle bottom
  • pixel art
  • limited color palette

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070821174800832174009
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
3c433245594d3b17
SHA-256
3c433245594d3b17e93ff6d0327e78cca46798f56343c25aa2f4e9558c2b8df2
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:46 UTC
Run
107
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image
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Overall label
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Overall score
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A basketball on a wooden court background with green pixelated text reading 'BALL IS COOL' on a blue background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 03:36 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
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Tokens
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Review tags

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  • light brown (color, 0.80)
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  • playful (mood, 0.80)
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  • wooden court (object, 0.80)
  • limited color palette (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • basketball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • black
  • light brown
  • blue
  • green

Composition

  • left-right split
  • basketball on left
  • text on right
  • top-middle-bottom text alignment

Dense Caption

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Description

  • A basketball on a wooden court background with green pixelated text reading 'BALL IS COOL' on a blue background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

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  • 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

Mood

  • playful
  • casual

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  • ball is cool pixel art
  • low resolution basketball icon
  • green text ball is cool

Objects

  • basketball
  • wooden court
  • blue background
  • green text

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  • low-resolution
  • limited color palette

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Visible Text

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  • IS
  • COOL

Wordwall

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  • COOL
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  • solid blue
  • light brown
  • text layout
  • top middle bottom
  • pixel art
  • limited color palette
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
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Run
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Error
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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
20070821174800832174009
Archive entry
20070821174800832174009.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#20070821174800832174009.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070821174800832174009.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016