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A pixelated hand with a raised index finger against a dark background scattered with light speckles.

A pixelated hand with a raised index finger against a dark background scattered with light speckles. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons……

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • diagonal hand placement
  • scattered background elements

Dense Caption

The image shows a single human hand in profile view, positioned diagonally from the bottom-left to top-right. The hand has brown skin tone and is making a gesture with the index finger extended upward while other fingers are curled inward. The palm faces left. The background consists of a black field with scattered light gray and white pixel clusters resembling stars or dust particles. The image exhibits heavy pixelation typical of low-resolution digital art from early 2000s instant messaging platforms.

Description

  • A pixelated hand with a raised index finger against a dark background scattered with light speckles.

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071229115016598040760

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hand index finger extended pixelated
  • brown hand black background speckles
  • diagonal hand gesture low resolution
  • pixel art hand starry background

Subjects

  • hand

Wordwall

  • hand
  • index finger extended
  • brown skin tone
  • palm facing left
  • black background
  • light speckles
  • pixelated
  • diagonal composition

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071229115016598040760
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/09/098a446fd0e2ade0bb980351cacc35abdb2df7478c8e98feb70cffe37d25f99f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 UTC
Archive ID
098a446fd0e2ade0
SHA-256
098a446fd0e2ade0bb980351cacc35abdb2df7478c8e98feb70cffe37d25f99f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:53 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.198385

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated hand with a raised index finger against a dark background scattered with light speckles.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 05:43 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,115 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,085, response 622

Review tags

  • index finger extended upward (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • light speckles (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • hand (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • index finger extended upward

Colors

  • brown
  • black
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • diagonal hand placement
  • scattered background elements

Dense Caption

The image shows a single human hand in profile view, positioned diagonally from the bottom-left to top-right. The hand has brown skin tone and is making a gesture with the index finger extended upward while other fingers are curled inward. The palm faces left. The background consists of a black field with scattered light gray and white pixel clusters resembling stars or dust particles. The image exhibits heavy pixelation typical of low-resolution digital art from early 2000s instant messaging platforms.

Description

  • A pixelated hand with a raised index finger against a dark background scattered with light speckles.

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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071229115016598040760

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hand index finger extended pixelated
  • brown hand black background speckles
  • diagonal hand gesture low resolution
  • pixel art hand starry background

Objects

  • light speckles

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution digital

Subjects

  • hand

Wordwall

  • hand
  • index finger extended
  • brown skin tone
  • palm facing left
  • black background
  • light speckles
  • pixelated
  • diagonal composition
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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
20071229115016598040760
Archive entry
20071229115016598040760.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:07 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#20071229115016598040760.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071229115016598040760.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016