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A pixelated image of a basketball player in a teal jersey with the number 3, holding an orange basketball, overlaid with cyan text reading "'J Them 3's".

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A pixelated image of a basketball player in a teal jersey with the number 3, holding an orange basketball, overlaid with cyan text reading "'J Them 3's".

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text overlay on upper left

Dense Caption

The image shows a basketball player wearing a teal jersey with the number 3 and partially visible team name on the chest. The player is holding an orange basketball in their right hand. Overlaid on the image are three lines of cyan-colored text: single quotation mark, capital J, double quotation mark; "Them"; and "3's". The background consists of a blurred crowd of spectators. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation.

Description

A pixelated image of a basketball player in a teal jersey with the number 3, holding an orange basketball, overlaid with cyan text reading "'J Them 3's".

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • teal jersey basketball player
  • number 3 orange basketball
  • 'J Them 3's text overlay
  • pixelated crowd background

Visible Text

  • 'J
  • Them
  • 3's

Visually Supported Entities

  • basketball player

Wordwall

  • teal jersey
  • number 3
  • orange basketball
  • cyan text
  • 'J Them 3's'
  • blurred crowd
  • pixelated image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802021001331311737766
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a0/a016db120e24cc9286c55b19e177d720c68b8baf3c18774150239ecb3f8148d6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC
Archive ID
a016db120e24cc92
SHA-256
a016db120e24cc9286c55b19e177d720c68b8baf3c18774150239ecb3f8148d6
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.113233

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image of a basketball player in a teal jersey with the number 3, holding an orange basketball, overlaid with cyan text reading "'J Them 3's".

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 14:30 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,265 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 590

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • basketball (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • basketball player (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • teal
  • orange
  • cyan
  • brown
  • gray

Composition

  • centered subject
  • text overlay on upper left

Dense Caption

The image shows a basketball player wearing a teal jersey with the number 3 and partially visible team name on the chest. The player is holding an orange basketball in their right hand. Overlaid on the image are three lines of cyan-colored text: single quotation mark, capital J, double quotation mark; "Them"; and "3's". The background consists of a blurred crowd of spectators. The image has low resolution with visible pixelation.

Description

A pixelated image of a basketball player in a teal jersey with the number 3, holding an orange basketball, overlaid with cyan text reading "'J Them 3's".

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • teal jersey basketball player
  • number 3 orange basketball
  • 'J Them 3's text overlay
  • pixelated crowd background

Objects

  • basketball

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • basketball player

Visible Text

  • 'J
  • Them
  • 3's

Visually Supported Entities

  • basketball player

Wordwall

  • teal jersey
  • number 3
  • orange basketball
  • cyan text
  • 'J Them 3's'
  • blurred crowd
  • pixelated image
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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
200802021001331311737766
Archive entry
200802021001331311737766.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 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#200802021001331311737766.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802021001331311737766.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016