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A basketball on a wooden court background with red text reading 'Connection Sun' and '=1 word Ballin'!!!' on a red field.

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A basketball on a wooden court background with red text reading 'Connection Sun' and '=1 word Ballin'!!!' on a red field.

A basketball on a wooden court background with red text reading 'Connection Sun' and '=1 word Ballin'!!!' on a red field. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • basketball on left
  • text on right and bottom
  • solid red background

Dense Caption

The image shows a brown basketball with black lines on a light brown wooden court background. To the right and below the basketball, there is a solid red background with black pixelated text. The top text reads 'Connection Sun' with 'Sun' partially cut off. Below that, the text '=1 word Ballin'!!!' appears. The basketball is positioned on the left side of the image, with a black shadow beneath it. The text is in a pixelated font typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A basketball on a wooden court background with red text reading 'Connection Sun' and '=1 word Ballin'!!!' on a red field.

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200807291430331250241619

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball wooden court red background
  • Connection Sun Ballin
  • pixelated text red field
  • wooden court basketball shadow

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image

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

Visible Text

  • Connection Sun
  • =1 word
  • Ballin!!!

Wordwall

  • basketball
  • wooden court
  • red background
  • black text
  • Connection Sun
  • =1 word
  • Ballin!!!
  • pixelated font
  • brown ball
  • black lines
  • shadow
  • solid red field
  • partially cut off text
  • wooden texture
  • pixelated graphics

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807291430331250241619
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 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 15:35 UTC
Archive ID
51e2bc37a0fb72d1
SHA-256
51e2bc37a0fb72d158a8a32183e5bc3d562b80b05eb5b6d54da668c5c7eb02f2
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:23 UTC
Run
1037
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.099748

OpenAI category scores

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A basketball on a wooden court background with red text reading 'Connection Sun' and '=1 word Ballin'!!!' on a red field.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,597 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 799

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • energetic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • black text (object, 0.80)
  • red background (object, 0.80)
  • wooden court (object, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • early internet (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • basketball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • black
  • red
  • light brown

Composition

  • basketball on left
  • text on right and bottom
  • solid red background

Dense Caption

The image shows a brown basketball with black lines on a light brown wooden court background. To the right and below the basketball, there is a solid red background with black pixelated text. The top text reads 'Connection Sun' with 'Sun' partially cut off. Below that, the text '=1 word Ballin'!!!' appears. The basketball is positioned on the left side of the image, with a black shadow beneath it. The text is in a pixelated font typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A basketball on a wooden court background with red text reading 'Connection Sun' and '=1 word Ballin'!!!' on a red field.

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200807291430331250241619

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • energetic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball wooden court red background
  • Connection Sun Ballin
  • pixelated text red field
  • wooden court basketball shadow

Objects

  • wooden court
  • red background
  • black text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital graphics
  • early internet

Subjects

  • basketball

Visible Text

  • Connection Sun
  • =1 word
  • Ballin!!!

Wordwall

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  • wooden court
  • red background
  • black text
  • Connection Sun
  • =1 word
  • Ballin!!!
  • pixelated font
  • brown ball
  • black lines
  • shadow
  • solid red field
  • partially cut off text
  • wooden texture
  • pixelated graphics
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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
200807291430331250241619
Archive entry
200807291430331250241619.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 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#200807291430331250241619.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807291430331250241619.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016