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Pixelated icon shows a hand holding a white MP3 player against blue background with 'imeg' text above.

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Pixelated icon shows a hand holding a white MP3 player against blue background with 'imeg' text above.

Pixelated icon shows a hand holding a white MP3 player against blue background with 'imeg' text above. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icon…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central device held by hand
  • text above device

Dense Caption

Blue background. Black silhouette of a right hand holding a white rectangular device resembling an early iPod or MP3 player. Device has gray screen area and visible circular control button below screen. White pixelated text 'imeg' appears above the device, positioned slightly to the right of the top edge of the device. The image is highly pixelated with low resolution typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated icon shows a hand holding a white MP3 player against blue background with 'imeg' text above.

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
  • 20080113200640222345186

Named Entities

  • MP3 player

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background hand holding MP3 player
  • pixelated imeg text blue screen
  • low resolution MP3 player icon
  • hand silhouette white device gray screen

Subjects

  • hand

Visible Text

  • imeg

Visually Supported Entities

  • MP3 player

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • black hand silhouette
  • white MP3 player
  • gray screen area
  • circular control button
  • pixelated text 'imeg'
  • low-resolution pixels

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080113200640222345186
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/20/2061fa8d64f3373d2b604294ea80d1cd2e1e31e97536cdb4c038385c04992055.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC
Archive ID
2061fa8d64f3373d
SHA-256
2061fa8d64f3373d2b604294ea80d1cd2e1e31e97536cdb4c038385c04992055
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:17 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074961

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Pixelated icon shows a hand holding a white MP3 player against blue background with 'imeg' text above.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 10:21 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,415 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 636

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • hand (subject, 0.80)
  • mp3 player (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • blue
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • central device held by hand
  • text above device

Dense Caption

Blue background. Black silhouette of a right hand holding a white rectangular device resembling an early iPod or MP3 player. Device has gray screen area and visible circular control button below screen. White pixelated text 'imeg' appears above the device, positioned slightly to the right of the top edge of the device. The image is highly pixelated with low resolution typical of early 2000s digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated icon shows a hand holding a white MP3 player against blue background with 'imeg' text above.

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
  • 20080113200640222345186

Named Entities

  • MP3 player

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue background hand holding MP3 player
  • pixelated imeg text blue screen
  • low resolution MP3 player icon
  • hand silhouette white device gray screen

Objects

  • MP3 player

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution digital graphics

Subjects

  • hand
  • MP3 player

Visible Text

  • imeg

Visually Supported Entities

  • MP3 player

Wordwall

  • blue background
  • black hand silhouette
  • white MP3 player
  • gray screen area
  • circular control button
  • pixelated text 'imeg'
  • low-resolution pixels
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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
20080113200640222345186
Archive entry
20080113200640222345186.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 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#20080113200640222345186.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080113200640222345186.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016