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Green background with pixelated text reading "BASKETBALL BASKETBALL + ELVIS= ME!" in four identical quadrants.

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Green background with pixelated text reading "BASKETBALL BASKETBALL + ELVIS= ME!" in four identical quadrants.

Green background with pixelated text reading "BASKETBALL BASKETBALL + ELVIS= ME!" in four identical quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four instances show identical content.

Composition

  • four identical quadrants
  • centered text
  • radial light effect

Dense Caption

Four identical green gradient backgrounds each display black pixelated text: top row reads "BASKETBALL BASKETBALL", middle row contains a plus sign, bottom two rows read "ELVIS=" and "ME!". The background has a radial light effect centered on the text in all quadrants. Text is rendered with blocky 8-bit style characters. All four instances show identical visual content without variation.

Description

  • Green background with pixelated text reading "BASKETBALL BASKETBALL + ELVIS= ME!" in four identical quadrants.

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802111509271951130459

Named Entities

  • BASKETBALL
  • ELVIS

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball elvis me
  • buddy icon basketball elvis
  • green pixelated text buddy icon
  • 8-bit basketball elvis me

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed; all four instances show identical content

Visible Text

  • BASKETBALL BASKETBALL
  • +
  • ELVIS=
  • ME!

Wordwall

  • green gradient background
  • pixelated black text
  • BASKETBALL BASKETBALL
  • ELVIS= ME!
  • plus sign
  • radial light effect

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802111509271951130459
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bf/bfcd336f9d5b5a2773ee3226bf07ca48e091d47c6329935ba4e73392cb6999e0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC
Archive ID
bfcd336f9d5b5a27
SHA-256
bfcd336f9d5b5a2773ee3226bf07ca48e091d47c6329935ba4e73392cb6999e0
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:36 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097048

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Green background with pixelated text reading "BASKETBALL BASKETBALL + ELVIS= ME!" in four identical quadrants.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 20:28 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,137 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 594

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four instances show identical content.

Colors

  • green
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • four identical quadrants
  • centered text
  • radial light effect

Dense Caption

Four identical green gradient backgrounds each display black pixelated text: top row reads "BASKETBALL BASKETBALL", middle row contains a plus sign, bottom two rows read "ELVIS=" and "ME!". The background has a radial light effect centered on the text in all quadrants. Text is rendered with blocky 8-bit style characters. All four instances show identical visual content without variation.

Description

  • Green background with pixelated text reading "BASKETBALL BASKETBALL + ELVIS= ME!" in four identical quadrants.

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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802111509271951130459

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Named Entities

  • BASKETBALL
  • ELVIS

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball elvis me
  • buddy icon basketball elvis
  • green pixelated text buddy icon
  • 8-bit basketball elvis me

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed; all four instances show identical content

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • blocky text

Visible Text

  • BASKETBALL BASKETBALL
  • +
  • ELVIS=
  • ME!

Wordwall

  • green gradient background
  • pixelated black text
  • BASKETBALL BASKETBALL
  • ELVIS= ME!
  • plus sign
  • radial light effect
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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
200802111509271951130459
Archive entry
200802111509271951130459.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 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#200802111509271951130459.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802111509271951130459.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016