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A pixelated image shows a light-skinned hand holding a small dark object against a blurred background with green and blue tones.

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A pixelated image shows a light-skinned hand holding a small dark object against a blurred background with green and blue tones.

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central hand
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution static icon. A light-skinned hand is positioned centrally, holding a small dark rectangular object. The hand's thumb and fingers are visible, with a reddish mark on the thumb. The background consists of blurred green and blue areas, suggesting foliage and sky. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance with visible compression artifacts. No text or additional objects are present.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a light-skinned hand holding a small dark object against a blurred background with green and blue tones.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hand holding dark object
  • reddish mark thumb
  • pixelated green blue background
  • low-resolution hand icon

Subjects

  • hand

Wordwall

  • light-skinned hand
  • holding dark object
  • reddish mark on thumb
  • blurred green background
  • blurred blue background
  • pixelated image
  • low-resolution
  • compression artifacts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090504214500320579760
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.6 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/14/140b853d858bb0dbcf61e44335c0320a9aec7374c82e8b9f4d70d00b11739fb2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
140b853d858bb0db
SHA-256
140b853d858bb0dbcf61e44335c0320a9aec7374c82e8b9f4d70d00b11739fb2
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:04 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.119775

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image shows a light-skinned hand holding a small dark object against a blurred background with green and blue tones.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 08:54 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,126 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 629

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light skinned (color, 0.80)
  • reddish (color, 0.80)
  • dark object (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hand (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • light-skinned
  • reddish
  • green
  • blue

Composition

  • central hand
  • blurred background

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution static icon. A light-skinned hand is positioned centrally, holding a small dark rectangular object. The hand's thumb and fingers are visible, with a reddish mark on the thumb. The background consists of blurred green and blue areas, suggesting foliage and sky. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance with visible compression artifacts. No text or additional objects are present.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a light-skinned hand holding a small dark object against a blurred background with green and blue tones.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hand holding dark object
  • reddish mark thumb
  • pixelated green blue background
  • low-resolution hand icon

Objects

  • dark object

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • hand

Wordwall

  • light-skinned hand
  • holding dark object
  • reddish mark on thumb
  • blurred green background
  • blurred blue background
  • pixelated image
  • low-resolution
  • compression artifacts
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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
20090504214500320579760
Archive entry
20090504214500320579760.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#20090504214500320579760.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090504214500320579760.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016