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Blue background with white pixelated stars and repeated text "Basketball Basketball rocks!" in four quadrants.

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Blue background with white pixelated stars and repeated text "Basketball Basketball rocks!" in four quadrants.

Blue background with white pixelated stars and repeated text "Basketball Basketball rocks!" in four quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four-quadrant arrangement
  • centered stars
  • text blocks in corners

Dense Caption

Solid blue background contains scattered white pixelated star shapes of varying sizes. Four identical text blocks display "Basketball Basketball rocks!" using a blocky, 8-bit style font; two are positioned top-left and top-right, two bottom-left and bottom-right. All elements remain static across the animation.

Description

  • Blue background with white pixelated stars and repeated text "Basketball Basketball rocks!" in four 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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801061706241388305766

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball rocks pixel art
  • blue background white stars text
  • 8-bit basketball icon
  • repeated basketball rocks text

Visible Text

  • Basketball Basketball rocks!

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white pixelated stars
  • 4x repeated text
  • "Basketball Basketball rocks!"
  • blocky 8-bit font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801061706241388305766
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
621 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c4/c43e96c592e81b4827b274f74782301f89459016b8f1960482b7d460bca428f7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Archive ID
c43e96c592e81b48
SHA-256
c43e96c592e81b4827b274f74782301f89459016b8f1960482b7d460bca428f7
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:39 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.175960

OpenAI category scores

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Blue background with white pixelated stars and repeated text "Basketball Basketball rocks!" in four quadrants.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 08:27 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,679 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,117, response 599

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive text layout (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • four-quadrant arrangement
  • centered stars
  • text blocks in corners

Dense Caption

Solid blue background contains scattered white pixelated star shapes of varying sizes. Four identical text blocks display "Basketball Basketball rocks!" using a blocky, 8-bit style font; two are positioned top-left and top-right, two bottom-left and bottom-right. All elements remain static across the animation.

Description

  • Blue background with white pixelated stars and repeated text "Basketball Basketball rocks!" in four 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: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200801061706241388305766

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball rocks pixel art
  • blue background white stars text
  • 8-bit basketball icon
  • repeated basketball rocks text

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • repetitive text layout

Visible Text

  • Basketball Basketball rocks!

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • white pixelated stars
  • 4x repeated text
  • "Basketball Basketball rocks!"
  • blocky 8-bit font
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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
200801061706241388305766
Archive entry
200801061706241388305766.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:09 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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