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A pixelated image shows a hand holding a red object against a dark background with a light vertical stripe.

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A pixelated image shows a hand holding a red object against a dark background with a light vertical stripe.

A pixelated image shows a hand holding a red object against a dark background with a light vertical stripe. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split vertical sections
  • dark background
  • light vertical stripe

Dense Caption

The image is split into two vertical sections. Left section: a light-skinned hand holds a red, rounded object with a dark brown base; the hand is positioned vertically with fingers curled around the object. Right section: a red, rounded object with a white interior is visible, with a small red droplet below it; the background is dark. Both sections have a dark background with a light vertical stripe on the left edge. The image is pixelated with visible dithering.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a hand holding a red object against a dark background with a light vertical stripe.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hand holding red object dark background
  • red droplet white interior pixelated
  • split vertical sections light stripe
  • red object dark brown base

Subjects

  • hand

Wordwall

  • hand holding red object
  • dark background
  • light vertical stripe
  • red droplet
  • white interior
  • pixelated
  • split vertical sections

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811051852511766597807
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.3 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/87/879994cde73e9487a5979821a63f17df9bb0c322f0ae1d1cd838b3e75e209985.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 UTC
Archive ID
879994cde73e9487
SHA-256
879994cde73e9487a5979821a63f17df9bb0c322f0ae1d1cd838b3e75e209985
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 00:16 UTC
Run
1284
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
violence
Overall score
0.427824

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:37 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.170438

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image shows a hand holding a red object against a dark background with a light vertical stripe.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 07:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,447 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,095, response 647

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light beige (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • red droplet (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hand (subject, 0.80)
  • red object (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • dark brown
  • light beige
  • black

Composition

  • split vertical sections
  • dark background
  • light vertical stripe

Dense Caption

The image is split into two vertical sections. Left section: a light-skinned hand holds a red, rounded object with a dark brown base; the hand is positioned vertically with fingers curled around the object. Right section: a red, rounded object with a white interior is visible, with a small red droplet below it; the background is dark. Both sections have a dark background with a light vertical stripe on the left edge. The image is pixelated with visible dithering.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a hand holding a red object against a dark background with a light vertical stripe.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hand holding red object dark background
  • red droplet white interior pixelated
  • split vertical sections light stripe
  • red object dark brown base

Objects

  • red object
  • red droplet

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • hand
  • red object

Wordwall

  • hand holding red object
  • dark background
  • light vertical stripe
  • red droplet
  • white interior
  • pixelated
  • split vertical sections
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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
200811051852511766597807
Archive entry
200811051852511766597807.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:42 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#200811051852511766597807.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811051852511766597807.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016