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Blue background with repeated 'BALLIN!' text and white/purple star-shaped pixel art elements in a pattern

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Blue background with repeated 'BALLIN!' text and white/purple star-shaped pixel art elements in a pattern

Blue background with repeated 'BALLIN!' text and white/purple star-shaped pixel art elements in a pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shar…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • pattern
  • repeated text and star elements

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. Six instances of black, uppercase, pixelated text reading "BALLIN!" arranged in two rows of three. White star shapes with trailing dots appear at multiple positions: top-left (white), top-center (white), top-right (white), middle-left (purple), middle-center (white), middle-right (white), bottom-left (white), bottom-center (white), bottom-right (white). All elements are static; no animation observed.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated 'BALLIN!' text and white/purple star-shaped pixel art elements in a pattern

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20080222152548863735034

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background ballin text stars
  • pixel art ballin blue stars
  • ballin text star pattern
  • retro game ballin stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Blue background with repeated 'BALLIN!' text and white/purple star-shaped pixel art elements in a grid pattern.
  • quarantined composition: grid pattern
  • quarantined retrieval: ballin text grid star pattern

Visible Text

  • BALLIN!

Visually Supported Entities

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

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • six "BALLIN!" texts
  • pixelated text
  • star shapes with trailing dots
  • white stars
  • purple star
  • "BALLIN!" in uppercase

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080222152548863735034
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
573 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 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 15:15 UTC
Archive ID
e9b9fac3415994b0
SHA-256
e9b9fac3415994b03d7ff9c1a8996592029a5ef511fe357f8b1d51ff52995077
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 06:18 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.141726

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Blue background with repeated 'BALLIN!' text and white/purple star-shaped pixel art elements in a pattern

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 02:13 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,424 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,166, response 662

Review tags

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  • purple (color, 0.80)
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  • retro video game (style, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • black
  • white
  • purple

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  • pattern
  • repeated text and star elements

Dense Caption

Solid blue background. Six instances of black, uppercase, pixelated text reading "BALLIN!" arranged in two rows of three. White star shapes with trailing dots appear at multiple positions: top-left (white), top-center (white), top-right (white), middle-left (purple), middle-center (white), middle-right (white), bottom-left (white), bottom-center (white), bottom-right (white). All elements are static; no animation observed.

Description

  • Blue background with repeated 'BALLIN!' text and white/purple star-shaped pixel art elements in a pattern

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: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20080222152548863735034

Mood

  • playful
  • energetic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background ballin text stars
  • pixel art ballin blue stars
  • ballin text star pattern
  • retro game ballin stars

Objects

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Preprocessing Notes

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Style

  • pixel art
  • retro video game

Subjects

  • stars
  • text

Visible Text

  • BALLIN!

Visually Supported Entities

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

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • six "BALLIN!" texts
  • pixelated text
  • star shapes with trailing dots
  • white stars
  • purple star
  • "BALLIN!" in uppercase
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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
20080222152548863735034
Archive entry
20080222152548863735034.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:15 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#20080222152548863735034.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080222152548863735034.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016