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Dark background with multiple brown and gray pixelated shapes resembling hands or claws in various positions, some with red accents.

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Dark background with multiple brown and gray pixelated shapes resembling hands or claws in various positions, some with red accents.

Dark background with multiple brown and gray pixelated shapes resembling hands or claws in various positions, some with red accents. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • shifting positions
  • motion shifts

Animation Summary

Multiple brown and gray pixelated shapes resembling hands or claws shift positions across frames against a dark background with scattered white pixel clusters and a white rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

Composition

  • sparse
  • dark background
  • white rectangle bottom-right

Dense Caption

Dark background with multiple brown and gray pixelated shapes resembling hands or claws in various positions; some shapes have red accents on upper portions; scattered small white pixel clusters; one white rectangular area in bottom-right corner; no visible text or distinct facial features; shapes appear to be in motion with slight positional shifts across frames; overall composition is sparse with dark tones dominating.

Description

  • Dark background with multiple brown and gray pixelated shapes resembling hands or claws in various positions, some with red accents.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown gray pixelated hands
  • dark background white rectangle
  • shifting pixelated shapes
  • white pixel clusters dark background

Preprocessing Notes

  • white rectangle may be cropping artifact

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

Wordwall

  • brown shapes
  • gray accents
  • red accents
  • white pixel clusters
  • white rectangle
  • dark background
  • pixelated hands
  • motion shifts

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200711271713481523717370
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ba/bacc4e598c7b02f7f47a21bea8c446d84f23d78c771ad298a08f83c22a205c95.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 UTC
Archive ID
bacc4e598c7b02f7
SHA-256
bacc4e598c7b02f7f47a21bea8c446d84f23d78c771ad298a08f83c22a205c95
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:34 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079217

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Dark background with multiple brown and gray pixelated shapes resembling hands or claws in various positions, some with red accents.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 11:54 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,546 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 750

Review tags

  • moving (action, 0.80)
  • shifting (action, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • mysterious (mood, 0.80)
  • unsettling (mood, 0.80)
  • white rectangle (object, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • claws (subject, 0.80)
  • hands (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • shifting
  • moving

Animation

  • shifting positions
  • motion shifts

Animation Summary

Multiple brown and gray pixelated shapes resembling hands or claws shift positions across frames against a dark background with scattered white pixel clusters and a white rectangle in the bottom-right corner.

Colors

  • brown
  • gray
  • red
  • white
  • dark

Composition

  • sparse
  • dark background
  • white rectangle bottom-right

Dense Caption

Dark background with multiple brown and gray pixelated shapes resembling hands or claws in various positions; some shapes have red accents on upper portions; scattered small white pixel clusters; one white rectangular area in bottom-right corner; no visible text or distinct facial features; shapes appear to be in motion with slight positional shifts across frames; overall composition is sparse with dark tones dominating.

Description

  • Dark background with multiple brown and gray pixelated shapes resembling hands or claws in various positions, some with red accents.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • 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

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • mysterious
  • unsettling

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown gray pixelated hands
  • dark background white rectangle
  • shifting pixelated shapes
  • white pixel clusters dark background

Objects

  • white rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • white rectangle may be cropping artifact

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • animated

Subjects

  • hands
  • claws

Wordwall

  • brown shapes
  • gray accents
  • red accents
  • white pixel clusters
  • white rectangle
  • dark background
  • pixelated hands
  • motion shifts
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:35 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
200711271713481523717370
Archive entry
200711271713481523717370.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:00 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#200711271713481523717370.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200711271713481523717370.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016