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A grayscale pixelated image of a hand with fingers extended, palm facing forward, against a dark background.

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A grayscale pixelated image of a hand with fingers extended, palm facing forward, against a dark background.

A grayscale pixelated image of a hand with fingers extended, palm facing forward, against a dark background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • hand centered slightly right
  • dark background
  • high-contrast
  • simple composition

Dense Caption

The image is a grayscale pixelated depiction of a hand with five fingers extended, palm facing forward. The hand is positioned slightly to the right of the center, with the thumb extended upward and the other four fingers spread horizontally. The background is dark, composed of black and dark gray pixels. The hand itself is rendered in varying shades of gray, from light gray to white, creating a high-contrast effect. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. There are no visible texts, symbols, or additional objects. The overall composition is simple, focusing solely on the hand gesture.

Description

  • A grayscale pixelated image of a hand with fingers extended, palm facing forward, against a dark 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20081011094930149594788

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale hand extended fingers
  • pixelated palm forward gesture
  • dark background hand
  • low-resolution hand gesture
  • grayscale blocky hand
  • hand extended thumb spread fingers
  • high-contrast hand
  • no text hand gesture

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Subjects

  • hand

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • hand
  • five fingers
  • palm forward
  • dark background
  • light gray
  • white
  • blocky
  • low-resolution
  • extended thumb
  • spread fingers
  • centered hand
  • high-contrast
  • no text
  • no symbols
  • no clothing
  • no props
  • no expression
  • no animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081011094930149594788
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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/6f/6f4c13c419fca01be08079c7711a60bb8b525b95a49197ea96248f1b333cc64f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
6f4c13c419fca01b
SHA-256
6f4c13c419fca01be08079c7711a60bb8b525b95a49197ea96248f1b333cc64f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:53 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.124530

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.875470onnx/unsafe0.124530onnx/nsfl0.068084onnx/nsfw0.056446
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A grayscale pixelated image of a hand with fingers extended, palm facing forward, against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 03:41 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,541 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 872

Review tags

  • extending (action, 0.80)
  • spreading (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark gray (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • grayscale (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hand (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • extending
  • spreading

Colors

  • black
  • dark gray
  • gray
  • light gray
  • white

Composition

  • hand centered slightly right
  • dark background
  • high-contrast
  • simple composition

Dense Caption

The image is a grayscale pixelated depiction of a hand with five fingers extended, palm facing forward. The hand is positioned slightly to the right of the center, with the thumb extended upward and the other four fingers spread horizontally. The background is dark, composed of black and dark gray pixels. The hand itself is rendered in varying shades of gray, from light gray to white, creating a high-contrast effect. The image has a low-resolution, blocky appearance typical of early digital graphics. There are no visible texts, symbols, or additional objects. The overall composition is simple, focusing solely on the hand gesture.

Description

  • A grayscale pixelated image of a hand with fingers extended, palm facing forward, against a dark 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20081011094930149594788

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grayscale hand extended fingers
  • pixelated palm forward gesture
  • dark background hand
  • low-resolution hand gesture
  • grayscale blocky hand
  • hand extended thumb spread fingers
  • high-contrast hand
  • no text hand gesture

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • grayscale
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • hand

Wordwall

  • grayscale
  • pixelated
  • hand
  • five fingers
  • palm forward
  • dark background
  • light gray
  • white
  • blocky
  • low-resolution
  • extended thumb
  • spread fingers
  • centered hand
  • high-contrast
  • no text
  • no symbols
  • no clothing
  • no props
  • no expression
  • no animation
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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
20081011094930149594788
Archive entry
20081011094930149594788.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#20081011094930149594788.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081011094930149594788.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016