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Pixelated grayscale image with stylized text 'I am John' and a hand gesture icon below, set against a light gray background.

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Pixelated grayscale image with stylized text 'I am John' and a hand gesture icon below, set against a light gray background.

Pixelated grayscale image with stylized text 'I am John' and a hand gesture icon below, set against a light gray background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-to-bottom arrangement: 'I am' above 'John' above hand gesture

Dense Caption

The image is composed of three distinct elements: at the top, pixelated dark gray text reads 'I am'; in the middle, larger pixelated dark gray text forms 'John'; beneath these texts, a stylized hand gesture icon shows an open palm with fingers extended upward. The entire composition uses grayscale tones on a light gray background. Pixelation is consistent across all elements, indicating low-resolution rendering typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image with stylized text 'I am John' and a hand gesture icon below, set against a light gray 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200801171527181652171884
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • John

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale 'I am John' hand gesture icon
  • 'I am John' pixelated text
  • hand gesture open palm grayscale
  • pixelated 'John' text light gray background

Subjects

  • hand gesture

Visible Text

  • I am
  • John

Visually Supported Entities

  • John (textual reference)

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated text
  • 'I am' text
  • 'John' text
  • hand gesture icon
  • light gray background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801171527181652171884
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
50×50 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/3f/3f8eabd9ad1d9a5472f533ad2f49d899045e77365e6ec77250d76a7a3753c0fd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:10 UTC
Archive ID
3f8eabd9ad1d9a54
SHA-256
3f8eabd9ad1d9a5472f533ad2f49d899045e77365e6ec77250d76a7a3753c0fd
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:50 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.067057

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated grayscale image with stylized text 'I am John' and a hand gesture icon below, set against a light gray background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 11:01 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,971 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,094, response 674

Review tags

  • hand gesture open palm (action, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • hand gesture icon (object, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stylized text (style, 0.80)
  • hand gesture (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • hand gesture (open palm)

Colors

  • dark gray
  • light gray

Composition

  • top-to-bottom arrangement: 'I am' above 'John' above hand gesture

Dense Caption

The image is composed of three distinct elements: at the top, pixelated dark gray text reads 'I am'; in the middle, larger pixelated dark gray text forms 'John'; beneath these texts, a stylized hand gesture icon shows an open palm with fingers extended upward. The entire composition uses grayscale tones on a light gray background. Pixelation is consistent across all elements, indicating low-resolution rendering typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated grayscale image with stylized text 'I am John' and a hand gesture icon below, set against a light gray 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200801171527181652171884
  • franksicons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • John

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale 'I am John' hand gesture icon
  • 'I am John' pixelated text
  • hand gesture open palm grayscale
  • pixelated 'John' text light gray background

Objects

  • hand gesture icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • stylized text

Subjects

  • text
  • hand gesture

Visible Text

  • I am
  • John

Visually Supported Entities

  • John (textual reference)

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated text
  • 'I am' text
  • 'John' text
  • hand gesture icon
  • light gray 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
200801171527181652171884
Archive entry
200801171527181652171884.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#200801171527181652171884.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801171527181652171884.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016