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A basketball on a wooden court background with blue text reading 'grimes' and 'basketball 1'.

A basketball on a wooden court background with blue text reading 'grimes' and 'basketball 1'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Color

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; appears static despite source hints indicating animated.

Composition

  • basketball on left side of image
  • text on right blue background

Dense Caption

The image shows a red basketball with black lines on a light brown wooden surface. To the right, there is solid blue background with pixelated black text: 'grimes' at the top-right corner and 'basketball 1' below it. The basketball has visible seams and appears to be stationary. The overall style is low-resolution digital art typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • A basketball on a wooden court background with blue text reading 'grimes' and 'basketball 1'.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200711191702542142692677
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball grimes
  • red basketball blue background
  • grimes basketball 1
  • pixelated text basketball

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate animated but no motion observed in pixels

Visible Text

  • grimes
  • basketball
  • 1

Wordwall

  • red basketball
  • black lines on ball
  • wooden court background
  • blue solid background
  • pixelated text
  • grimes
  • basketball 1

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711191702542142692677
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ef/ef9fa7faa5072f17c2549dc907dd5807dcecae6a31d090b40f8bc6cf3f28d52f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC
Archive ID
ef9fa7faa5072f17
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:02 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.267749

OpenAI category scores

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A basketball on a wooden court background with blue text reading 'grimes' and 'basketball 1'.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 20:20 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,999 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 549

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital art (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated text (style, 0.80)
  • basketball (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes observed; appears static despite source hints indicating animated.

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • light brown
  • blue

Composition

  • basketball on left side of image
  • text on right blue background

Dense Caption

The image shows a red basketball with black lines on a light brown wooden surface. To the right, there is solid blue background with pixelated black text: 'grimes' at the top-right corner and 'basketball 1' below it. The basketball has visible seams and appears to be stationary. The overall style is low-resolution digital art typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • A basketball on a wooden court background with blue text reading 'grimes' and 'basketball 1'.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • 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
  • 200711191702542142692677
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball grimes
  • red basketball blue background
  • grimes basketball 1
  • pixelated text basketball

Objects

  • basketball

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate animated but no motion observed in pixels

Style

  • low-resolution digital art
  • pixelated text

Subjects

  • basketball

Visible Text

  • grimes
  • basketball
  • 1

Wordwall

  • red basketball
  • black lines on ball
  • wooden court background
  • blue solid background
  • pixelated text
  • grimes
  • basketball 1
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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
200711191702542142692677
Archive entry
200711191702542142692677.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 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#200711191702542142692677.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711191702542142692677.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016