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A pixelated image shows a hand holding a glowing object against a dark background with scattered colorful shapes.

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A pixelated image shows a hand holding a glowing object against a dark background with scattered colorful shapes.

A pixelated image shows a hand holding a glowing object against a dark background with scattered colorful shapes. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • diagonal hand position
  • scattered background shapes

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated hand with light skin tone holding a glowing, yellowish object that emits a bright light. The background consists of a dark, textured surface with scattered, irregularly shaped forms in shades of blue, purple, and green. The hand is positioned diagonally across the image, with fingers curled around the glowing object. The overall visual style is low-resolution and pixelated, typical of early digital graphics. No text or recognizable symbols are visible in the image.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a hand holding a glowing object against a dark background with scattered colorful shapes.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 200708240944171365260405
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hand holding glowing object
  • pixelated hand dark background
  • glowing object blue purple shapes
  • diagonal hand position scattered shapes

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-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

  • hand
  • glowing object
  • light skin tone
  • dark background
  • blue shapes
  • purple shapes
  • green shapes
  • pixelated
  • diagonal hand position
  • scattered shapes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708240944171365260405
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c3/c303ed5ac1dc190400e12d51eaa1e3c34b1658b557ea8f3ec798aacfa3caf8ab.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
c303ed5ac1dc1904
SHA-256
c303ed5ac1dc190400e12d51eaa1e3c34b1658b557ea8f3ec798aacfa3caf8ab
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 29, 2026 at 17:00 UTC
Run
15963
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000552

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 15:45 UTC
Run
1272
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:38 UTC
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A pixelated image shows a hand holding a glowing object against a dark background with scattered colorful shapes.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 04:38 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,411 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,087, response 745

Review tags

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  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • enigmatic (mood, 0.80)
  • mysterious (mood, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • glowing object (subject, 0.80)
  • hand (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • light skin tone
  • yellow
  • blue
  • purple
  • green
  • dark gray

Composition

  • diagonal hand position
  • scattered background shapes

Dense Caption

The image displays a pixelated hand with light skin tone holding a glowing, yellowish object that emits a bright light. The background consists of a dark, textured surface with scattered, irregularly shaped forms in shades of blue, purple, and green. The hand is positioned diagonally across the image, with fingers curled around the glowing object. The overall visual style is low-resolution and pixelated, typical of early digital graphics. No text or recognizable symbols are visible in the image.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a hand holding a glowing object against a dark background with scattered colorful shapes.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • 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
  • 200708240944171365260405
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • mysterious
  • enigmatic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hand holding glowing object
  • pixelated hand dark background
  • glowing object blue purple shapes
  • diagonal hand position scattered shapes

Objects

  • glowing object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled or low-resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • 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

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  • pixelated
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Subjects

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Wordwall

  • hand
  • glowing object
  • light skin tone
  • dark background
  • blue shapes
  • purple shapes
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:51 UTC
Run
52
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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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
200708240944171365260405
Archive entry
200708240944171365260405.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#200708240944171365260405.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708240944171365260405.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016