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Pixelated text on a bright pink background with scattered blue dots, displaying 'i'm a BASKET BALL chie <3' in black and purple lettering.

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Pixelated text on a bright pink background with scattered blue dots, displaying 'i'm a BASKET BALL chie <3' in black and purple lettering.

Pixelated text on a bright pink background with scattered blue dots, displaying 'i'm a BASKET BALL chie <3' in black and purple lettering. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • mirrored layout
  • vertical alignment

Dense Caption

Bright pink background with scattered blue pixel dots. Centered text in black and purple pixelated font: 'i'm a' in black, 'BASKET' in purple, 'BALL' in black, 'chie' in black, '<3' in black. Text is arranged in vertical lines. The image is duplicated side-by-side, creating a mirrored effect. All text is in uppercase except 'i'm a' and 'chie'.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a bright pink background with scattered blue dots, displaying 'i'm a BASKET BALL chie <3' in black and purple lettering.

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: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball chie
  • pink blue text
  • i'm a basket ball chie
  • pixelated <3 text
  • mirrored text icon
  • retro digital text
  • basketball chie <3
  • blue dot background

Visible Text

  • i'm a
  • BASKET
  • BALL
  • chie
  • <3

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • blue pixel dots
  • black text
  • purple text
  • BASKET BALL
  • chie
  • <3
  • mirrored text
  • pixelated font
  • vertical text layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201005191740471673945019
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a0/a0bacbc44fe384de570bc7a0e089a86cd7ce24dea4f2f2d94c537f1472c6173a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC
Archive ID
a0bacbc44fe384de
SHA-256
a0bacbc44fe384de570bc7a0e089a86cd7ce24dea4f2f2d94c537f1472c6173a
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
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
0.133480

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated text on a bright pink background with scattered blue dots, displaying 'i'm a BASKET BALL chie <3' in black and purple lettering.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 19:09 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
5,880 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 630

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • blue
  • black
  • purple

Composition

  • centered text
  • mirrored layout
  • vertical alignment

Dense Caption

Bright pink background with scattered blue pixel dots. Centered text in black and purple pixelated font: 'i'm a' in black, 'BASKET' in purple, 'BALL' in black, 'chie' in black, '<3' in black. Text is arranged in vertical lines. The image is duplicated side-by-side, creating a mirrored effect. All text is in uppercase except 'i'm a' and 'chie'.

Description

  • Pixelated text on a bright pink background with scattered blue dots, displaying 'i'm a BASKET BALL chie <3' in black and purple lettering.

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: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball chie
  • pink blue text
  • i'm a basket ball chie
  • pixelated <3 text
  • mirrored text icon
  • retro digital text
  • basketball chie <3
  • blue dot background

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • i'm a
  • BASKET
  • BALL
  • chie
  • <3

Wordwall

  • pink background
  • blue pixel dots
  • black text
  • purple text
  • BASKET BALL
  • chie
  • <3
  • mirrored text
  • pixelated font
  • vertical text layout
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:43 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
201005191740471673945019
Archive entry
201005191740471673945019.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 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#201005191740471673945019.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201005191740471673945019.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016