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Pixelated image of a basketball player in mid-air shooting a ball, wearing a blue jersey with red accents and brown shorts.

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Pixelated image of a basketball player in mid-air shooting a ball, wearing a blue jersey with red accents and brown shorts.

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • horizontal background stripes

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure of a basketball player in mid-air, holding an orange basketball above their head with one hand. The player wears a blue jersey with red shoulder accents and brown shorts. The background is dark with horizontal light blue and white stripes. The figure's arms are extended, one holding the ball, the other outstretched. The player's legs are bent, suggesting a jump shot. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a basketball player in mid-air shooting a ball, wearing a blue jersey with red accents and brown shorts.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball player mid-air shooting
  • blue jersey red accents basketball
  • pixelated jump shot basketball
  • orange ball blue shorts basketball
  • low-resolution basketball player
  • horizontal stripes basketball background
  • blocky athletic basketball image
  • basketball player blue red brown colors

Wordwall

  • basketball player
  • mid-air
  • orange basketball
  • blue jersey
  • red shoulder accents
  • brown shorts
  • dark background
  • horizontal light blue stripes
  • horizontal white stripes
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • jump shot
  • one hand holding ball
  • other arm extended
  • bent legs

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080226191006625587111
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f3/f3409fe66134d2b0fd29677dfb3585ddcade8559365785a67a7a7f4c345c5fe3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
f3409fe66134d2b0
SHA-256
f3409fe66134d2b0fd29677dfb3585ddcade8559365785a67a7a7f4c345c5fe3
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:04 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077967

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated image of a basketball player in mid-air shooting a ball, wearing a blue jersey with red accents and brown shorts.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 13:13 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,345 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 724

Review tags

  • jumping (action, 0.80)
  • shooting (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • athletic (mood, 0.80)
  • dynamic (mood, 0.80)
  • basketball (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • basketball player (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • shooting
  • jumping

Colors

  • orange
  • blue
  • red
  • brown
  • dark
  • light blue
  • white

Composition

  • centered figure
  • horizontal background stripes

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated figure of a basketball player in mid-air, holding an orange basketball above their head with one hand. The player wears a blue jersey with red shoulder accents and brown shorts. The background is dark with horizontal light blue and white stripes. The figure's arms are extended, one holding the ball, the other outstretched. The player's legs are bent, suggesting a jump shot. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated image of a basketball player in mid-air shooting a ball, wearing a blue jersey with red accents and brown shorts.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • dynamic
  • athletic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball player mid-air shooting
  • blue jersey red accents basketball
  • pixelated jump shot basketball
  • orange ball blue shorts basketball
  • low-resolution basketball player
  • horizontal stripes basketball background
  • blocky athletic basketball image
  • basketball player blue red brown colors

Objects

  • basketball

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • basketball player

Wordwall

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  • mid-air
  • orange basketball
  • blue jersey
  • red shoulder accents
  • brown shorts
  • dark background
  • horizontal light blue stripes
  • horizontal white stripes
  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • blocky appearance
  • jump shot
  • one hand holding ball
  • other arm extended
  • bent legs
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:17 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20080226191006625587111
Archive entry
20080226191006625587111.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#20080226191006625587111.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080226191006625587111.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016