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A basketball image with pixelated text overlays on a maroon background.

A basketball image with pixelated text overlays on a maroon background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to Mid-…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left-aligned basketball
  • right-aligned text block
  • two- lower text layout

Dense Caption

The icon features a red basketball with black lines and a dark shadow, positioned left of center against a light brown textured background. To the right, orange pixelated text reads "Basketball Is Life!!" in three stacked lines. Below this, additional orange pixelated text spans two columns: left column says "Jakobowski Basketball Is Beast At Basketball," right column says "4 Eva!!" The entire composition is set on a solid maroon background with no visible animation.

Description

  • A basketball image with pixelated text overlays on a maroon background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball is life
  • jakobowski basketball beast
  • 4 eva
  • basketball icon pixelated text
  • maroon background basketball
  • orange text basketball
  • basketball shadow
  • text-heavy basketball

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two-column lower text layout

Visible Text

  • Basketball Is Life!!
  • Jakobowski Basketball Is Beast At Basketball
  • 4 Eva!!

Wordwall

  • red basketball
  • black lines
  • dark shadow
  • light brown textured background
  • orange pixelated text
  • maroon background
  • "Basketball Is Life!!"
  • "Jakobowski Basketball Is Beast At Basketball"
  • "4 Eva!!"

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710262148211977881497
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/7c/7c30c333fc1e78f0cdf6789e52ca2d8d43bb64828664bfc81d91a89ea1deeb5f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 UTC
Archive ID
7c30c333fc1e78f0
SHA-256
7c30c333fc1e78f0cdf6789e52ca2d8d43bb64828664bfc81d91a89ea1deeb5f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:12 UTC
Run
1074
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.102606

OpenAI category scores

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A basketball image with pixelated text overlays on a maroon background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 12:58 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,438 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 551

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • maroon (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • enthusiastic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text heavy (style, 0.80)
  • basketball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • light brown
  • orange
  • maroon

Composition

  • left-aligned basketball
  • right-aligned text block
  • two- lower text layout

Dense Caption

The icon features a red basketball with black lines and a dark shadow, positioned left of center against a light brown textured background. To the right, orange pixelated text reads "Basketball Is Life!!" in three stacked lines. Below this, additional orange pixelated text spans two columns: left column says "Jakobowski Basketball Is Beast At Basketball," right column says "4 Eva!!" The entire composition is set on a solid maroon background with no visible animation.

Description

  • A basketball image with pixelated text overlays on a maroon background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • enthusiastic
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball is life
  • jakobowski basketball beast
  • 4 eva
  • basketball icon pixelated text
  • maroon background basketball
  • orange text basketball
  • basketball shadow
  • text-heavy basketball

Objects

  • basketball

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: two-column lower text layout

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-heavy

Subjects

  • basketball

Visible Text

  • Basketball Is Life!!
  • Jakobowski Basketball Is Beast At Basketball
  • 4 Eva!!

Wordwall

  • red basketball
  • black lines
  • dark shadow
  • light brown textured background
  • orange pixelated text
  • maroon background
  • "Basketball Is Life!!"
  • "Jakobowski Basketball Is Beast At Basketball"
  • "4 Eva!!"
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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
200710262148211977881497
Archive entry
200710262148211977881497.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:52 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#200710262148211977881497.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710262148211977881497.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016