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A basketball on a wooden court background with vertical pink text reading "B B A L L" on a cyan

A basketball on a wooden court background with vertical pink text reading "B B A L L" on a cyan. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy I…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left: basketball on court
  • right: cyan with text

Dense Caption

The image shows a red basketball with black seams on a light brown wooden court background. To the right, a bright cyan panel contains vertical pink pixelated text spelling "B B A L L". The basketball has a glossy surface with visible highlights. The background is a blurred wooden court texture. The text is rendered in a blocky, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • A basketball on a wooden court background with vertical pink text reading "B B A L L" on a cyan

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 cyan text
  • red basketball wooden court
  • vertical pink text ball
  • cyan basketball text
  • pixelated ball text
  • wooden court basketball cyan
  • basketball pink text cyan
  • ball cyan text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A basketball on a wooden court background with vertical pink text reading "B B A L L" on a cyan panel.
  • quarantined wordwall: cyan panel
  • quarantined objects: cyan panel
  • quarantined composition: right: cyan panel with text
  • quarantined retrieval: ball cyan panel text
  • quarantined retrieval: cyan panel basketball text
  • quarantined retrieval: basketball cyan panel text

Visible Text

  • B B A L L

Wordwall

  • red basketball
  • black seams
  • wooden court background
  • cyan
  • vertical pink text
  • pixelated text
  • glossy surface
  • blurred background
  • blocky text style

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904070449582049976478
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 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 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
a21cc4d99d5baa2b
SHA-256
a21cc4d99d5baa2ba4cf565d40c58254b73d5a98875844ffa41272cb544ebaf3
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:19 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072118

OpenAI category scores

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A basketball on a wooden court background with vertical pink text reading "B B A L L" on a cyan

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 05:45 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,008 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 680

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
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  • cyan (object, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • wooden court (object, 0.80)
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Colors

  • red
  • black
  • brown
  • cyan
  • pink

Composition

  • left: basketball on court
  • right: cyan with text

Dense Caption

The image shows a red basketball with black seams on a light brown wooden court background. To the right, a bright cyan panel contains vertical pink pixelated text spelling "B B A L L". The basketball has a glossy surface with visible highlights. The background is a blurred wooden court texture. The text is rendered in a blocky, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • A basketball on a wooden court background with vertical pink text reading "B B A L L" on a cyan

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

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  • red basketball wooden court
  • vertical pink text ball
  • cyan basketball text
  • pixelated ball text
  • wooden court basketball cyan
  • basketball pink text cyan
  • ball cyan text

Objects

  • basketball
  • wooden court
  • cyan
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: cyan panel
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  • quarantined composition: right: cyan panel with text
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  • quarantined retrieval: basketball cyan panel text

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • digital graphics

Subjects

  • basketball

Visible Text

  • B B A L L

Wordwall

  • red basketball
  • black seams
  • wooden court background
  • cyan
  • vertical pink text
  • pixelated text
  • glossy surface
  • blurred background
  • blocky text style
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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
200904070449582049976478
Archive entry
200904070449582049976478.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#200904070449582049976478.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904070449582049976478.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016