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Four basketball-themed buddy icons arranged in a , each depicting a player or team symbol in pixelated style

Four basketball-themed buddy icons arranged in a , each depicting a player or team symbol in pixelated style. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four

Dense Caption

Top-left: basketball player in dark jersey with 'UT' and '15' on front, arms extended, dark background. Top-right: player in white jersey holding orange basketball, basketball hoop visible, dark background. Bottom-left: player in blue jersey mid-dunk on basketball court with red and beige flooring. Bottom-right: light blue shark mascot with 'NC' in white on chest, dark blue tail, white background. All icons are pixelated, static, and arranged in a 2x2 grid.

Description

  • Four basketball-themed buddy icons arranged in a , each depicting a player or team symbol in pixelated style

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: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090407130607363761737

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball player UT 15
  • NC shark mascot
  • dunking basketball player
  • white jersey basketball player
  • orange basketball hoop
  • pixelated buddy icons
  • basketball icons
  • dark blue jersey basketball

Preprocessing Notes

  • grid layout is part of the image content, not a separate observation
  • quarantined description: Four basketball-themed buddy icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each depicting a player or team symbol in pixelated style.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: four panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid basketball icons

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

Visible Text

  • UT
  • 15
  • NC

Visually Supported Entities

  • UT 15
  • NC shark

Wordwall

  • basketball player
  • dark jersey
  • UT 15
  • white jersey
  • orange basketball
  • hoop
  • dunk
  • NC shark
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090407130607363761737
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.2 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 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
7be9e938bd0f6e7d
SHA-256
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Assessed
August 13, 2026 at 05:33 UTC
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Four basketball-themed buddy icons arranged in a , each depicting a player or team symbol in pixelated style

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 05:47 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,608 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 828

Review tags

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  • holding (action, 0.80)
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  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dynamic (mood, 0.80)
  • sporty (mood, 0.80)
  • basketball (object, 0.80)
  • hoop (object, 0.80)
  • jersey (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • basketball player (subject, 0.80)
  • shark mascot (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • dunking

Colors

  • dark blue
  • white
  • orange
  • light blue
  • red
  • beige

Composition

  • four

Dense Caption

Top-left: basketball player in dark jersey with 'UT' and '15' on front, arms extended, dark background. Top-right: player in white jersey holding orange basketball, basketball hoop visible, dark background. Bottom-left: player in blue jersey mid-dunk on basketball court with red and beige flooring. Bottom-right: light blue shark mascot with 'NC' in white on chest, dark blue tail, white background. All icons are pixelated, static, and arranged in a 2x2 grid.

Description

  • Four basketball-themed buddy icons arranged in a , each depicting a player or team symbol in pixelated style

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: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090407130607363761737

Metadata Supported By Image

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

Mood

  • dynamic
  • sporty

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball player UT 15
  • NC shark mascot
  • dunking basketball player
  • white jersey basketball player
  • orange basketball hoop
  • pixelated buddy icons
  • basketball icons
  • dark blue jersey basketball

Objects

  • basketball
  • hoop
  • jersey

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined description: Four basketball-themed buddy icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each depicting a player or team symbol in pixelated style.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
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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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • buddy icon

Subjects

  • basketball player
  • shark mascot

Visible Text

  • UT
  • 15
  • NC

Visually Supported Entities

  • UT 15
  • NC shark

Wordwall

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  • UT 15
  • white jersey
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  • hoop
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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
20090407130607363761737
Archive entry
20090407130607363761737.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#20090407130607363761737.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090407130607363761737.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016