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Pixelated basketball image with net and text reading BASKETBALL is life in pixel font.

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Pixelated basketball image with net and text reading BASKETBALL is life in pixel font.

Pixelated basketball image with net and text reading BASKETBALL is life in pixel font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Lat…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left: basketball and net
  • right: text "BASKETBALL"
  • bottom: text "is" and "life"

Dense Caption

The icon features a close-up of an orange basketball with black lines on the left side, partially overlapping a white mesh net. To the right of the basketball, bold black pixelated text reads "BASKETBALL". Below this, centered horizontally across the bottom, are two smaller pixelated words: "is" and "life", each in black. The background is solid white. All elements use a low-resolution, blocky pixel art style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated basketball image with net and text reading BASKETBALL is life in pixel font.

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
  • 200709091746092030700275
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball net pixel art
  • BASKETBALL is life text
  • orange basketball black lines white mesh
  • pixel font BASKETBALL is life

Visible Text

  • BASKETBALL
  • is
  • life

Wordwall

  • basketball
  • net
  • is
  • life
  • pixel font
  • orange
  • black lines
  • white mesh

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709091746092030700275
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 14:44 UTC
Archive ID
f454908899b2843e
SHA-256
f454908899b2843e7044d7694446a5004c4d9af414547aa1dc5a655ea9357dae
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 00:56 UTC
Run
1201
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000018

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July 24, 2026 at 03:02 UTC
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OpenAI category scores

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July 23, 2026 at 20:04 UTC
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Pixelated basketball image with net and text reading BASKETBALL is life in pixel font.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 00:51 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,148 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 618

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • basketball (subject, 0.80)
  • net (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • orange
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • left: basketball and net
  • right: text "BASKETBALL"
  • bottom: text "is" and "life"

Dense Caption

The icon features a close-up of an orange basketball with black lines on the left side, partially overlapping a white mesh net. To the right of the basketball, bold black pixelated text reads "BASKETBALL". Below this, centered horizontally across the bottom, are two smaller pixelated words: "is" and "life", each in black. The background is solid white. All elements use a low-resolution, blocky pixel art style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated basketball image with net and text reading BASKETBALL is life in pixel font.

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
  • 200709091746092030700275
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • basketball net pixel art
  • BASKETBALL is life text
  • orange basketball black lines white mesh
  • pixel font BASKETBALL is life

Objects

  • basketball
  • net

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • blocky

Subjects

  • basketball
  • net

Visible Text

  • BASKETBALL
  • is
  • life

Wordwall

  • basketball
  • net
  • is
  • life
  • pixel font
  • orange
  • black lines
  • white mesh
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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
200709091746092030700275
Archive entry
200709091746092030700275.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:44 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#200709091746092030700275.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709091746092030700275.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016