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Pixelated figure in blue jersey with red text and number, holding a basketball against dark background.

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Pixelated figure in blue jersey with red text and number, holding a basketball against dark background.

Pixelated figure in blue jersey with red text and number, holding a basketball against dark background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ico…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered subject
  • solid dark background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure wearing a blue sports jersey with the word "BULLS" in large red letters across the chest and the number "3" below it. The figure holds a light brown basketball above its head with both hands. The background is solid black, emphasizing the subject. The rendering style uses blocky pixels typical of low-resolution digital art from early 2000s instant messaging platforms.

Description

  • Pixelated figure in blue jersey with red text and number, holding a basketball against dark background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Chicago Bulls player #3

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080405224544485219866
  • FranksIcons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • BULLS jersey basketball
  • blue red number 3
  • pixelated sports figure
  • basketball holding blue jersey

Subjects

  • figure

Visible Text

  • BULLS
  • 3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Chicago Bulls
  • basketball player

Wordwall

  • blue jersey
  • red text "BULLS"
  • number "3"
  • basketball
  • black background
  • pixelated figure

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080405224544485219866
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b3/b389adb19f81914f3f80df97f0a1f0e2c32f5e0dc9600e42cca031bb9cb0504d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 UTC
Archive ID
b389adb19f81914f
SHA-256
b389adb19f81914f3f80df97f0a1f0e2c32f5e0dc9600e42cca031bb9cb0504d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:29 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075802

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated figure in blue jersey with red text and number, holding a basketball against dark background.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 00:14 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,663 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 624

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • jersey (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital art (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • basketball (subject, 0.80)
  • figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • blue
  • red
  • brown
  • black

Composition

  • centered subject
  • solid dark background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure wearing a blue sports jersey with the word "BULLS" in large red letters across the chest and the number "3" below it. The figure holds a light brown basketball above its head with both hands. The background is solid black, emphasizing the subject. The rendering style uses blocky pixels typical of low-resolution digital art from early 2000s instant messaging platforms.

Description

  • Pixelated figure in blue jersey with red text and number, holding a basketball against dark background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Chicago Bulls player #3

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080405224544485219866
  • FranksIcons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • BULLS jersey basketball
  • blue red number 3
  • pixelated sports figure
  • basketball holding blue jersey

Objects

  • jersey
  • basketball

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution digital art

Subjects

  • figure
  • basketball

Visible Text

  • BULLS
  • 3

Visually Supported Entities

  • Chicago Bulls
  • basketball player

Wordwall

  • blue jersey
  • red text "BULLS"
  • number "3"
  • basketball
  • black background
  • pixelated figure
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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
20080405224544485219866
Archive entry
20080405224544485219866.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:22 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#20080405224544485219866.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080405224544485219866.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016