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A pixelated static image shows a light-colored hand with fingers extended against a dark background, appearing to gesture or point.

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A pixelated static image shows a light-colored hand with fingers extended against a dark background, appearing to gesture or point.

A pixelated static image shows a light-colored hand with fingers extended against a dark background, appearing to gesture or point. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • hand on right
  • dark background on left
  • centered hand

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution static pixel art depiction of a hand. The hand is light-toned with visible fingers and a thumb, positioned as if gesturing or pointing. The background is dark and indistinct, composed of dark blue and black pixels. The hand occupies the right portion of the frame, with the left side dominated by the dark background. The image has a grainy, pixelated texture typical of early digital graphics. No text or additional objects are visible.

Description

  • A pixelated static image shows a light-colored hand with fingers extended against a dark background, appearing to gesture or point.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light hand gesture
  • pixelated hand static
  • dark background hand
  • low-res hand pointing
  • grainy hand image
  • hand extended fingers
  • static hand gesture
  • hand on dark background

Subjects

  • hand

Wordwall

  • light-colored hand
  • fingers extended
  • dark background
  • pixelated texture
  • static image
  • hand gesture
  • low-resolution
  • grainy appearance
  • right-side composition
  • no visible text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808250948402043993503
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c5/c5c26cd62c07b79258a00a5d61a4a0411d2b724bcd2cf9e010d1fb647d4bdde2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
c5c26cd62c07b792
SHA-256
c5c26cd62c07b79258a00a5d61a4a0411d2b724bcd2cf9e010d1fb647d4bdde2
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 17, 2026 at 21:40 UTC
Run
1309
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000040

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 30, 2026 at 20:49 UTC
Run
1249
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010175

OpenAI category scores

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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:30 UTC
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1039
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.453448

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A pixelated static image shows a light-colored hand with fingers extended against a dark background, appearing to gesture or point.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 21:29 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,392 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 677

Review tags

  • gesturing (action, 0.80)
  • pointing (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light beige (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • hand (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • gesturing
  • pointing

Colors

  • light beige
  • dark blue
  • black

Composition

  • hand on right
  • dark background on left
  • centered hand

Dense Caption

The image is a low-resolution static pixel art depiction of a hand. The hand is light-toned with visible fingers and a thumb, positioned as if gesturing or pointing. The background is dark and indistinct, composed of dark blue and black pixels. The hand occupies the right portion of the frame, with the left side dominated by the dark background. The image has a grainy, pixelated texture typical of early digital graphics. No text or additional objects are visible.

Description

  • A pixelated static image shows a light-colored hand with fingers extended against a dark background, appearing to gesture or point.

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

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • light hand gesture
  • pixelated hand static
  • dark background hand
  • low-res hand pointing
  • grainy hand image
  • hand extended fingers
  • static hand gesture
  • hand on dark background

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • static

Subjects

  • hand

Wordwall

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  • fingers extended
  • dark background
  • pixelated texture
  • static image
  • hand gesture
  • low-resolution
  • grainy appearance
  • right-side composition
  • no visible text
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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
200808250948402043993503
Archive entry
200808250948402043993503.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#200808250948402043993503.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808250948402043993503.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016