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Black background with white pixelated text and repeated hand gestures in grayscale.

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Black background with white pixelated text and repeated hand gestures in grayscale.

Black background with white pixelated text and repeated hand gestures in grayscale. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • text above gestures
  • repeated horizontal pattern of hands

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background with multiple lines of white pixelated text: 'GRACE' on the top row, 'GALE <3' on the second row, and 'get it now get it now' on the third row. Below the text is a repeated pattern of grayscale hand gestures in various positions, including raised hands and pointing fingers. The image has a low-resolution pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text and repeated hand gestures in grayscale.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grace gale get it now
  • hand gestures black background
  • pixelated text <3 symbol
  • grayscale hands repeated pattern

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Visible Text

  • GRACE
  • GALE <3
  • get it now

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 symbol

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • GRACE text
  • GALE <3 text
  • get it now text
  • grayscale hand gestures
  • repeated pattern
  • low-resolution pixels

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080519124136123739396
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b3/b38a687b1b2e707e3e7916d8e44a42d67351d831d914284e20b620db4e8027ed.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC
Archive ID
b38a687b1b2e707e
SHA-256
b38a687b1b2e707e3e7916d8e44a42d67351d831d914284e20b620db4e8027ed
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:29 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074504

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Black background with white pixelated text and repeated hand gestures in grayscale.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 16:47 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,332 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 590

Review tags

  • pointing fingers (action, 0.80)
  • raising hands (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • enthusiastic (mood, 0.80)
  • urgent (mood, 0.80)
  • 3 symbol (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hands (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • raising hands
  • pointing fingers

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • text above gestures
  • repeated horizontal pattern of hands

Dense Caption

The image displays a black background with multiple lines of white pixelated text: 'GRACE' on the top row, 'GALE <3' on the second row, and 'get it now get it now' on the third row. Below the text is a repeated pattern of grayscale hand gestures in various positions, including raised hands and pointing fingers. The image has a low-resolution pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text and repeated hand gestures in grayscale.

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

Mood

  • urgent
  • enthusiastic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • grace gale get it now
  • hand gestures black background
  • pixelated text <3 symbol
  • grayscale hands repeated pattern

Objects

  • <3 symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • hands

Visible Text

  • GRACE
  • GALE <3
  • get it now

Visually Supported Entities

  • <3 symbol

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • GRACE text
  • GALE <3 text
  • get it now text
  • grayscale hand gestures
  • repeated pattern
  • low-resolution pixels
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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
20080519124136123739396
Archive entry
20080519124136123739396.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 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#20080519124136123739396.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080519124136123739396.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016