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A pixelated basketball on a wooden court background with red text reading 'Natalie Herb' and 'WW Basketball #33' on a blue field.

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A pixelated basketball on a wooden court background with red text reading 'Natalie Herb' and 'WW Basketball #33' on a blue field.

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • basketball on left
  • text on blue background
  • two sections: court and blue
  • text arranged in top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated basketball with brown and black lines on a light brown wooden court background. To the right and below the basketball, a solid blue background contains red pixelated text: 'Natalie Herb' in two lines at the top right, 'WW Basketball' in two lines at the bottom left, and '#33' at the bottom right. The basketball is positioned on the left side of the image, with the blue background occupying the right and bottom portions. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated basketball on a wooden court background with red text reading 'Natalie Herb' and 'WW Basketball #33' on a blue field.

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 wooden court blue background red text
  • Natalie Herb WW Basketball #33
  • pixelated basketball text layout
  • low-resolution blue background red font
  • basketball on court with #33
  • WW Basketball text
  • Natalie Herb text
  • blue field with red text

Visible Text

  • Natalie Herb
  • WW Basketball
  • #33

Wordwall

  • basketball
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  • blue background
  • red text
  • Natalie Herb
  • WW Basketball
  • #33
  • pixelated
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  • solid blue
  • light brown background
  • text on blue
  • basketball on court
  • two lines of text
  • red font
  • pixelated font
  • text layout
  • blue field

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2009082609153928179216
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
b1a355376b50a175
SHA-256
b1a355376b50a175fbe870a52241e408340dcc00e797cbd50e33375a83205b41
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:28 UTC
Run
1136
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.112862

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A pixelated basketball on a wooden court background with red text reading 'Natalie Herb' and 'WW Basketball #33' on a blue field.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 17:05 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,115 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 796

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
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  • red (color, 0.80)
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  • brown
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  • blue
  • red

Composition

  • basketball on left
  • text on blue background
  • two sections: court and blue
  • text arranged in top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated basketball with brown and black lines on a light brown wooden court background. To the right and below the basketball, a solid blue background contains red pixelated text: 'Natalie Herb' in two lines at the top right, 'WW Basketball' in two lines at the bottom left, and '#33' at the bottom right. The basketball is positioned on the left side of the image, with the blue background occupying the right and bottom portions. The text is rendered in a blocky, low-resolution style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • A pixelated basketball on a wooden court background with red text reading 'Natalie Herb' and 'WW Basketball #33' on a blue field.

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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  • Natalie Herb WW Basketball #33
  • pixelated basketball text layout
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  • basketball on court with #33
  • WW Basketball text
  • Natalie Herb text
  • blue field with red text

Objects

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Subjects

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Visible Text

  • Natalie Herb
  • WW Basketball
  • #33

Wordwall

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  • basketball on court
  • two lines of text
  • red font
  • pixelated font
  • text layout
  • blue field
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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
2009082609153928179216
Archive entry
2009082609153928179216.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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

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