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Animated icon shows a blue hand making rock gesture with text changing from 'merry' to 'ROCK-' and then 'mash!!!'

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Animated icon shows a blue hand making rock gesture with text changing from 'merry' to 'ROCK-' and then 'mash!!!'

Animated icon shows a blue hand making rock gesture with text changing from 'merry' to 'ROCK-' and then 'mash!!!'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes: merry → ROCK- → mash!!!

Animation Summary

  • Text above static rock gesture hand changes sequentially from 'merry' to 'ROCK-' to 'mash!!!'

Composition

  • central hand
  • text above hand
  • static background

Dense Caption

Pixelated 2D animation on black background features a light blue hand in rock gesture (index and middle fingers extended, thumb out). The hand has dark wristband with teal accents. Text above the hand changes across frames: first frame shows 'merry' in white pixelated font; second frame shows 'ROCK-' with hyphen; third frame shows 'mash!!!' with three exclamation marks. Hand remains static between text changes, no other motion observed.

Description

  • Animated icon shows a blue hand making rock gesture with text changing from 'merry' to 'ROCK-' and then 'mash!!!'

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712211731291162599586
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rock gesture hand text merry
  • rock gesture hand text ROCK-
  • rock gesture hand text mash!!!
  • pixelated blue hand rock gesture

Subjects

  • hand

Visible Text

  • merry
  • ROCK-
  • mash!!!

Visually Supported Entities

  • hand gesture
  • rock music reference

Wordwall

  • rock gesture
  • light blue hand
  • teal wristband accents
  • black background
  • text: merry
  • text: ROCK-
  • text: mash!!!
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712211731291162599586
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 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 15:06 UTC
Archive ID
dbe4ebef26da2b29
SHA-256
dbe4ebef26da2b296f3dd7bfbaf2773d7b4ee463c5bc277128d3894db1df2682
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:51 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084994

OpenAI category scores

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Animated icon shows a blue hand making rock gesture with text changing from 'merry' to 'ROCK-' and then 'mash!!!'

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 03:33 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,989 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 680

Review tags

  • rock gesture (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • teal (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • wristband (object, 0.80)
  • text changes merry rock mash (other, 0.80)
  • 2d animation (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hand (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • rock gesture

Animation

  • text changes: merry → ROCK- → mash!!!

Animation Summary

  • Text above static rock gesture hand changes sequentially from 'merry' to 'ROCK-' to 'mash!!!'

Colors

  • light blue
  • teal
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • central hand
  • text above hand
  • static background

Dense Caption

Pixelated 2D animation on black background features a light blue hand in rock gesture (index and middle fingers extended, thumb out). The hand has dark wristband with teal accents. Text above the hand changes across frames: first frame shows 'merry' in white pixelated font; second frame shows 'ROCK-' with hyphen; third frame shows 'mash!!!' with three exclamation marks. Hand remains static between text changes, no other motion observed.

Description

  • Animated icon shows a blue hand making rock gesture with text changing from 'merry' to 'ROCK-' and then 'mash!!!'

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200712211731291162599586
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • rock gesture hand text merry
  • rock gesture hand text ROCK-
  • rock gesture hand text mash!!!
  • pixelated blue hand rock gesture

Objects

  • wristband

Style

  • pixelated
  • 2D animation

Subjects

  • hand

Visible Text

  • merry
  • ROCK-
  • mash!!!

Visually Supported Entities

  • hand gesture
  • rock music reference

Wordwall

  • rock gesture
  • light blue hand
  • teal wristband accents
  • black background
  • text: merry
  • text: ROCK-
  • text: mash!!!
  • pixelated font
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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
200712211731291162599586
Archive entry
200712211731291162599586.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:06 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#200712211731291162599586.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712211731291162599586.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016