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A red basketball with black lines on a light brown background, next to blue text reading '#3 Baller ya digg?' in pixelated font.

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A red basketball with black lines on a light brown background, next to blue text reading '#3 Baller ya digg?' in pixelated font.

A red basketball with black lines on a light brown background, next to blue text reading '#3 Baller ya digg?' in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Composition

  • left: basketball on light brown surface
  • right: text on bright blue background

Dense Caption

The image shows a red basketball with visible black seams and subtle shading indicating its spherical shape. The basketball rests on a light brown surface resembling wood grain. To the right of the basketball is solid bright blue background containing black pixelated text: '#3 Baller ya digg?'. The text uses blocky, low-resolution characters typical of early digital graphics. The overall image has a retro-pixelated aesthetic with limited color palette.

Description

  • A red basketball with black lines on a light brown background, next to blue text reading '#3 Baller ya digg?' in pixelated font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200709291917341477964156
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball pixel art
  • Baller ya digg text
  • #3 Baller ya digg
  • retro digital graphics basketball

Visible Text

  • #3 Baller ya digg?

Wordwall

  • red basketball
  • black seams
  • light brown surface
  • bright blue background
  • #3 Baller ya digg?
  • pixelated font
  • low-resolution graphics
  • retro aesthetic

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709291917341477964156
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
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 14:48 UTC
Archive ID
4fae4f14daafe5e9
SHA-256
4fae4f14daafe5e94de6fe0ab1b57fbbf58441d549454b1c1b384d9849deb641
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:20 UTC
Run
1034
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.106783

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A red basketball with black lines on a light brown background, next to blue text reading '#3 Baller ya digg?' in pixelated font.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 05:54 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,522 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 616

Review tags

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  • bright blue (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • retro digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • basketball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • light brown
  • bright blue

Composition

  • left: basketball on light brown surface
  • right: text on bright blue background

Dense Caption

The image shows a red basketball with visible black seams and subtle shading indicating its spherical shape. The basketball rests on a light brown surface resembling wood grain. To the right of the basketball is solid bright blue background containing black pixelated text: '#3 Baller ya digg?'. The text uses blocky, low-resolution characters typical of early digital graphics. The overall image has a retro-pixelated aesthetic with limited color palette.

Description

  • A red basketball with black lines on a light brown background, next to blue text reading '#3 Baller ya digg?' in pixelated font.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200709291917341477964156
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball pixel art
  • Baller ya digg text
  • #3 Baller ya digg
  • retro digital graphics basketball

Objects

  • basketball

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital graphics

Subjects

  • basketball

Visible Text

  • #3 Baller ya digg?

Wordwall

  • red basketball
  • black seams
  • light brown surface
  • bright blue background
  • #3 Baller ya digg?
  • pixelated font
  • low-resolution graphics
  • retro aesthetic
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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
200709291917341477964156
Archive entry
200709291917341477964156.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 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

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