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A red basketball with black lines rests on a light brown surface, next to blue background with white text.

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A red basketball with black lines rests on a light brown surface, next to blue background with white text.

A red basketball with black lines rests on a light brown surface, next to blue background with white text. 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

A red basketball with black lines rests on a light brown surface. The background is solid blue. White pixelated text reads "Wildcat" above the basketball, "Basketball" below it, and "2007" to the right of "Basketball". The basketball has a glossy surface with visible highlights. The image is static with no animation.

Description

  • A red basketball with black lines rests on a light brown surface, next to blue background with white 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball 2007
  • wildcat basketball
  • 2007 basketball
  • basketball wildcat 2007
  • red basketball black lines
  • basketball light brown surface
  • blue background white text
  • wildcat basketball 2007 text

Visible Text

  • Wildcat
  • Basketball
  • 2007

Wordwall

  • red basketball
  • black lines
  • light brown surface
  • solid blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • Wildcat
  • Basketball
  • 2007

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708310947171911562927
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/92/92d2fc3b878d45b169140e2d070f9fab1bd23618a1d66a375fd69bad494bcd55.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
92d2fc3b878d45b1
SHA-256
92d2fc3b878d45b169140e2d070f9fab1bd23618a1d66a375fd69bad494bcd55
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.106781

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A red basketball with black lines rests on a light brown surface, next to blue background with white text.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 08:27 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,296 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 608

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • basketball (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • light brown
  • blue
  • white

Composition

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

Dense Caption

A red basketball with black lines rests on a light brown surface. The background is solid blue. White pixelated text reads "Wildcat" above the basketball, "Basketball" below it, and "2007" to the right of "Basketball". The basketball has a glossy surface with visible highlights. The image is static with no animation.

Description

  • A red basketball with black lines rests on a light brown surface, next to blue background with white 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball 2007
  • wildcat basketball
  • 2007 basketball
  • basketball wildcat 2007
  • red basketball black lines
  • basketball light brown surface
  • blue background white text
  • wildcat basketball 2007 text

Objects

  • basketball

Style

  • pixelated
  • static

Subjects

  • basketball

Visible Text

  • Wildcat
  • Basketball
  • 2007

Wordwall

  • red basketball
  • black lines
  • light brown surface
  • solid blue background
  • white pixelated text
  • Wildcat
  • Basketball
  • 2007
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:45 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
200708310947171911562927
Archive entry
200708310947171911562927.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#200708310947171911562927.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708310947171911562927.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016