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Pixelated text 'basketball & koalas' on bright pink background with green and brown symbols below.

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Pixelated text 'basketball & koalas' on bright pink background with green and brown symbols below.

Pixelated text 'basketball & koalas' on bright pink background with green and brown symbols below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no visible changes

Animation Summary

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Composition

  • text top
  • symbols bottom
  • horizontal arrangement

Dense Caption

Bright pink background with pixelated white text reading 'basketball' repeated twice at the top, followed by a single white ampersand symbol, then 'koalas' repeated twice below. Under 'koalas', there are five small symbols: two green plus signs, one brown plus sign, two green plus signs. The symbols are arranged horizontally. The text and symbols have a low-resolution, retro digital appearance.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'basketball & koalas' on bright pink background with green and brown symbols below.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball koalas pink background
  • pixelated basketball koalas
  • green brown plus signs
  • retro digital basketball koalas
  • basketball & koalas pink
  • koalas basketball green plus
  • pink background basketball koalas
  • basketball koalas plus signs

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
  • no matte

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • basketball
  • &
  • koalas

Visually Supported Entities

  • basketball
  • koalas

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • pixelated white text
  • basketball repeated twice
  • & symbol
  • koalas repeated twice
  • green plus signs
  • brown plus sign
  • low-resolution digital
  • horizontal symbol arrangement

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806251216401902406102
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
972 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 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 15:31 UTC
Archive ID
41e59676cbf3d3a9
SHA-256
41e59676cbf3d3a94aab8e6e4c74f89d0c0013f4938d283815b82d13f15055aa
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:52 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.104918

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated text 'basketball & koalas' on bright pink background with green and brown symbols below.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 08:31 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,870 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,149, response 789

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • quirky (mood, 0.80)
  • plus signs (object, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • basketball (subject, 0.80)
  • koalas (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no visible changes

Animation Summary

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Colors

  • pink
  • white
  • green
  • brown

Composition

  • text top
  • symbols bottom
  • horizontal arrangement

Dense Caption

Bright pink background with pixelated white text reading 'basketball' repeated twice at the top, followed by a single white ampersand symbol, then 'koalas' repeated twice below. Under 'koalas', there are five small symbols: two green plus signs, one brown plus sign, two green plus signs. The symbols are arranged horizontally. The text and symbols have a low-resolution, retro digital appearance.

Description

  • Pixelated text 'basketball & koalas' on bright pink background with green and brown symbols below.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • quirky

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball koalas pink background
  • pixelated basketball koalas
  • green brown plus signs
  • retro digital basketball koalas
  • basketball & koalas pink
  • koalas basketball green plus
  • pink background basketball koalas
  • basketball koalas plus signs

Objects

  • plus signs

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling
  • no cropping
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Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • basketball
  • koalas

Visible Text

  • basketball
  • &
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Visually Supported Entities

  • basketball
  • koalas

Wordwall

  • bright pink background
  • pixelated white text
  • basketball repeated twice
  • & symbol
  • koalas repeated twice
  • green plus signs
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  • low-resolution digital
  • horizontal symbol arrangement
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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
200806251216401902406102
Archive entry
200806251216401902406102.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 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#200806251216401902406102.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806251216401902406102.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016