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A red basketball with black seams rests on a light brown wooden surface, next to green background with white pixelated text.

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A red basketball with black seams rests on a light brown wooden surface, next to green background with white pixelated text.

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left-right split
  • text aligned right of basketball

Dense Caption

Red basketball with visible black seams and slight texture variation; positioned on light brown wood grain surface. Green rectangular background occupies right half of frame. White pixelated text reads 'dotz' (top), 'b-ball', 'owns', 'number', '33' (bottom) in vertical alignment. Text uses blocky, low-resolution font style typical of early digital graphics. Basketball casts subtle shadow on wood surface.

Description

  • A red basketball with black seams rests on a light brown wooden surface, next to green background with white pixelated 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200801141737251014358439
  • franksicons
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Named Entities

  • dotz

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball b-ball owns number 33
  • red basketball white text green background
  • dotz b-ball 33
  • b-ball owns number 33

Visible Text

  • dotz
  • b-ball
  • owns
  • number
  • 33

Visually Supported Entities

  • b-ball
  • 33

Wordwall

  • red basketball
  • black seams
  • light brown wood
  • green background
  • white pixelated text
  • dotz b-ball owns number 33

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801141737251014358439
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/61/612ba98fecc757db7074709e1cbc34bfce7ff29bcd1dd699fe5254c134706e9b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC
Archive ID
612ba98fecc757db
SHA-256
612ba98fecc757db7074709e1cbc34bfce7ff29bcd1dd699fe5254c134706e9b
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:39 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.172611

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A red basketball with black seams rests on a light brown wooden surface, next to green background with white pixelated text.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 10:33 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,353 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 638

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • wooden surface (object, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • basketball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • light brown
  • green
  • white

Composition

  • left-right split
  • text aligned right of basketball

Dense Caption

Red basketball with visible black seams and slight texture variation; positioned on light brown wood grain surface. Green rectangular background occupies right half of frame. White pixelated text reads 'dotz' (top), 'b-ball', 'owns', 'number', '33' (bottom) in vertical alignment. Text uses blocky, low-resolution font style typical of early digital graphics. Basketball casts subtle shadow on wood surface.

Description

  • A red basketball with black seams rests on a light brown wooden surface, next to green background with white pixelated 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200801141737251014358439
  • franksicons
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Named Entities

  • dotz

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball b-ball owns number 33
  • red basketball white text green background
  • dotz b-ball 33
  • b-ball owns number 33

Objects

  • wooden surface

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • basketball

Visible Text

  • dotz
  • b-ball
  • owns
  • number
  • 33

Visually Supported Entities

  • b-ball
  • 33

Wordwall

  • red basketball
  • black seams
  • light brown wood
  • green background
  • white pixelated text
  • dotz b-ball owns number 33
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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
200801141737251014358439
Archive entry
200801141737251014358439.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 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#200801141737251014358439.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801141737251014358439.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016