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Red 'Ho' text appears twice on a black background above pixelated white and gray shapes resembling hands or fingers.

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Red 'Ho' text appears twice on a black background above pixelated white and gray shapes resembling hands or fingers.

Red 'Ho' text appears twice on a black background above pixelated white and gray shapes resembling hands or fingers. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Mood

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Source terms

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Composition

  • horizontal band of shapes below text
  • symmetrical left-right pairs

Dense Caption

Black background with two identical vertical pairs of red 'Ho' text, each pair positioned left and right. Below the text is a horizontal band of pixelated grayscale shapes: white and light gray forms with dark gray and black details, arranged in rows that suggest multiple hand-like figures with visible fingers or digits. The image has low-resolution digital rendering typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Red 'Ho' text appears twice on a black background above pixelated white and gray shapes resembling hands or fingers.

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
  • 200710211620571472875869

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red ho text pixel art
  • black background hands graphic
  • grayscale hand shapes low resolution

Visible Text

  • Ho

Wordwall

  • red 'Ho' text
  • black background
  • pixelated hands
  • grayscale shapes
  • two vertical pairs
  • low-resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710211620571472875869
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
933 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 UTC
Archive ID
8a5da6a5d5b0a729
SHA-256
8a5da6a5d5b0a729bf29de48b233a5b3a84ab13ff8b01b18e717f781ccc676ff
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 11:57 UTC
Run
1201
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000758

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:40 UTC
Run
1127
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Red 'Ho' text appears twice on a black background above pixelated white and gray shapes resembling hands or fingers.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 11:53 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,319 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 611

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • quirky (mood, 0.80)
  • static image with no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • hands (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image with no visible motion changes

Colors

  • black
  • red
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • horizontal band of shapes below text
  • symmetrical left-right pairs

Dense Caption

Black background with two identical vertical pairs of red 'Ho' text, each pair positioned left and right. Below the text is a horizontal band of pixelated grayscale shapes: white and light gray forms with dark gray and black details, arranged in rows that suggest multiple hand-like figures with visible fingers or digits. The image has low-resolution digital rendering typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Red 'Ho' text appears twice on a black background above pixelated white and gray shapes resembling hands or fingers.

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
  • 200710211620571472875869

Mood

  • playful
  • quirky

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red ho text pixel art
  • black background hands graphic
  • grayscale hand shapes low resolution

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution digital graphics

Subjects

  • hands
  • text

Visible Text

  • Ho

Wordwall

  • red 'Ho' text
  • black background
  • pixelated hands
  • grayscale shapes
  • two vertical pairs
  • low-resolution
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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
200710211620571472875869
Archive entry
200710211620571472875869.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:51 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#200710211620571472875869.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710211620571472875869.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016