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A basketball on a wooden court background with green text 'BALLIN' repeated five times and 'SWOOSH' repeated six times in pixelated font.

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A basketball on a wooden court background with green text 'BALLIN' repeated five times and 'SWOOSH' repeated six times in pixelated font.

A basketball on a wooden court background with green text 'BALLIN' repeated five times and 'SWOOSH' repeated six times in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • basketball on left side
  • text blocks on right side

Dense Caption

The image shows a red basketball with black lines resting on a light brown wooden surface. To the right of the basketball, there is a blue rectangular area containing green pixelated text that reads 'BALLIN' five times vertically. Below this section, another blue rectangle contains green pixelated text reading 'SWOOSH' six times vertically. The background behind the basketball appears to be a blurred wooden court.

Description

  • A basketball on a wooden court background with green text 'BALLIN' repeated five times and 'SWOOSH' repeated six times in pixelated font.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red basketball green text
  • wooden court background ballin swoosh
  • pixelated ballin swoosh text
  • basketball on wood surface

Visible Text

  • BALLIN
  • SWOOSH

Visually Supported Entities

  • basketball

Wordwall

  • red basketball
  • black lines on ball
  • light brown wood surface
  • blue rectangular area
  • green pixelated text
  • 'BALLIN' repeated five times
  • 'SWOOSH' repeated six times

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200804120813161293342522
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Animated (3 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 15:22 UTC
Archive ID
929f764440d84f0d
SHA-256
929f764440d84f0d08ef162821c336c47b4aaa798e92a62854eae45ab5cb86dc
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:09 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.085557

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A basketball on a wooden court background with green text 'BALLIN' repeated five times and 'SWOOSH' repeated six times in pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 02:38 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,596 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 611

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • wooden court surface (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated text (style, 0.80)
  • static image (style, 0.80)
  • basketball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • light brown
  • blue
  • green

Composition

  • basketball on left side
  • text blocks on right side

Dense Caption

The image shows a red basketball with black lines resting on a light brown wooden surface. To the right of the basketball, there is a blue rectangular area containing green pixelated text that reads 'BALLIN' five times vertically. Below this section, another blue rectangle contains green pixelated text reading 'SWOOSH' six times vertically. The background behind the basketball appears to be a blurred wooden court.

Description

  • A basketball on a wooden court background with green text 'BALLIN' repeated five times and 'SWOOSH' repeated six times in pixelated font.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red basketball green text
  • wooden court background ballin swoosh
  • pixelated ballin swoosh text
  • basketball on wood surface

Objects

  • wooden court surface

Style

  • pixelated text
  • static image

Subjects

  • basketball

Visible Text

  • BALLIN
  • SWOOSH

Visually Supported Entities

  • basketball

Wordwall

  • red basketball
  • black lines on ball
  • light brown wood surface
  • blue rectangular area
  • green pixelated text
  • 'BALLIN' repeated five times
  • 'SWOOSH' repeated six times
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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
200804120813161293342522
Archive entry
200804120813161293342522.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 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#200804120813161293342522.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200804120813161293342522.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016