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A four- shows hands in motion with text overlays reading don't, ever, let go. on a light background

A four- shows hands in motion with text overlays reading don't, ever, let go. on a light background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • top hand moves rightward in top-right
  • hands move closer together in bottom-left

Animation Summary

  • The top hand moves rightward in the second , then both hands move closer together in the third

Composition

  • consistent background

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left panel: two hands are positioned above each other with fingers extended; black text overlay reads 'don't'. Top-right panel: the top hand moves rightward while the bottom hand remains stationary; black text overlay reads 'ever'. Bottom-left panel: both hands move closer together, nearly touching; black text overlay reads 'let go.'. The background is a light beige color. All panels share consistent lighting and pixelation typical of low-resolution digital images.

Description

  • A four- shows hands in motion with text overlays reading don't, ever, let go. on a light background

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
  • 200811181644131063760361

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hands text don't ever let go
  • text overlays hands moving
  • beige background pixelated animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A four-panel grid shows hands in motion with text overlays reading don't, ever, let go. on a light background.
  • quarantined animationSummary: The top hand moves rightward in the second panel, then both hands move closer together in the third panel.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: consistent background across panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined animation: hands move closer together in bottom-left panel
  • quarantined animation: top hand moves rightward in top-right panel

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • don't
  • ever
  • let go.

Wordwall

  • hands
  • text overlays
  • don't
  • ever
  • let go.
  • light background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811181644131063760361
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3a/3a18b12fcd8224104cec12546600f215cc033108505a09c96ea03f73d98f1e4e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
3a18b12fcd822410
SHA-256
3a18b12fcd8224104cec12546600f215cc033108505a09c96ea03f73d98f1e4e
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:44 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088526

OpenAI category scores

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A four- shows hands in motion with text overlays reading don't, ever, let go. on a light background

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 09:31 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,879 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 692

Review tags

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  • hands (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • moving
  • extending fingers
  • nearly touching

Animation

  • top hand moves rightward in top-right
  • hands move closer together in bottom-left

Animation Summary

  • The top hand moves rightward in the second , then both hands move closer together in the third

Colors

  • beige
  • black
  • skin tone

Composition

  • consistent background

Dense Caption

The image is divided into four panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Top-left panel: two hands are positioned above each other with fingers extended; black text overlay reads 'don't'. Top-right panel: the top hand moves rightward while the bottom hand remains stationary; black text overlay reads 'ever'. Bottom-left panel: both hands move closer together, nearly touching; black text overlay reads 'let go.'. The background is a light beige color. All panels share consistent lighting and pixelation typical of low-resolution digital images.

Description

  • A four- shows hands in motion with text overlays reading don't, ever, let go. on a light background

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
  • 200811181644131063760361

Mood

  • emotional
  • sentimental

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hands text don't ever let go
  • text overlays hands moving
  • beige background pixelated animation

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: consistent background across panels
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  • quarantined animation: hands move closer together in bottom-left panel
  • quarantined animation: top hand moves rightward in top-right panel

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text overlay

Subjects

  • hands

Visible Text

  • don't
  • ever
  • let go.

Wordwall

  • hands
  • text overlays
  • don't
  • ever
  • let go.
  • light background
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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
200811181644131063760361
Archive entry
200811181644131063760361.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#200811181644131063760361.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811181644131063760361.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016