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A basketball on a wooden court background with red text reading Houston Mustangs, Mason, Aboloff, and #23.

A basketball on a wooden court background with red text reading Houston Mustangs, Mason, Aboloff, and #23. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • basketball on left
  • text on right
  • text below basketball

Dense Caption

The image shows a basketball on a wooden court background. The basketball is brown with black lines. To the right of the basketball, there is red background with black text. The text reads "Houston" at the top, followed by "Mustangs", then "Mason", and "Aboloff". Below the basketball, on the red background, there is the text "#23". The image has a pixelated appearance.

Description

  • A basketball on a wooden court background with red text reading Houston Mustangs, Mason, Aboloff, and #23.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball houston mustangs mason aboloff #23
  • houston mustangs basketball
  • mason aboloff #23
  • basketball wooden court red background

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • Houston
  • Mustangs
  • Mason
  • Aboloff
  • #23

Wordwall

  • basketball
  • wooden court
  • red background
  • black text
  • Houston
  • Mustangs
  • Mason
  • Aboloff
  • #23
  • brown
  • black lines
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070811191447190549357
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.9 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 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
856ae6e383c6bbf8
SHA-256
856ae6e383c6bbf85c50817c1bdd04aade276c9132d1d236547e97257637132c
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:34 UTC
Run
1121
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image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.114875

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A basketball on a wooden court background with red text reading Houston Mustangs, Mason, Aboloff, and #23.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 22:21 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,151 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 678

Review tags

  • beige (color, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • wooden court (object, 0.80)
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Colors

  • red
  • brown
  • black
  • beige

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  • text on right
  • text below basketball

Dense Caption

The image shows a basketball on a wooden court background. The basketball is brown with black lines. To the right of the basketball, there is red background with black text. The text reads "Houston" at the top, followed by "Mustangs", then "Mason", and "Aboloff". Below the basketball, on the red background, there is the text "#23". The image has a pixelated appearance.

Description

  • A basketball on a wooden court background with red text reading Houston Mustangs, Mason, Aboloff, and #23.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball houston mustangs mason aboloff #23
  • houston mustangs basketball
  • mason aboloff #23
  • basketball wooden court red background

Objects

  • basketball
  • wooden court

Style

  • pixelated
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • basketball

Visible Text

  • Houston
  • Mustangs
  • Mason
  • Aboloff
  • #23

Wordwall

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  • wooden court
  • red background
  • black text
  • Houston
  • Mustangs
  • Mason
  • Aboloff
  • #23
  • brown
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Run
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Version
v5
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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
20070811191447190549357
Archive entry
20070811191447190549357.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#20070811191447190549357.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070811191447190549357.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016