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A pixelated image shows a light-skinned hand with fingers extended, holding a small dark object against a dark background with purple and red tones.

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A pixelated image shows a light-skinned hand with fingers extended, holding a small dark object against a dark background with purple and red tones.

A pixelated image shows a light-skinned hand with fingers extended, holding a small dark object against a dark background with purple and red tones. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central hand
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is highly pixelated. A light-skinned hand occupies the lower center, fingers extended upward toward a small dark circular object held between thumb and forefinger. The background consists of dark areas with patches of deep purple and reddish-brown hues. No text or additional objects are visible in the frame.

Description

A pixelated image shows a light-skinned hand with fingers extended, holding a small dark object against a dark background with purple and red tones.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080204115452856328681

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hand holding small dark object pixelated
  • dark background purple reddish-brown tones

Subjects

  • hand

Wordwall

  • light-skinned hand
  • fingers extended
  • small dark object
  • dark background
  • purple tones
  • reddish-brown tones

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080204115452856328681
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/dc/dca8478f99e40062d6484e1f81f4d084ff7de51f5f1b67c17cfdd88fee9ded52.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 UTC
Archive ID
dca8478f99e40062
SHA-256
dca8478f99e40062d6484e1f81f4d084ff7de51f5f1b67c17cfdd88fee9ded52
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000766

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:52 UTC
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A pixelated image shows a light-skinned hand with fingers extended, holding a small dark object against a dark background with purple and red tones.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 16:42 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,942 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 586

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • light skinned (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • reddish brown (color, 0.80)
  • small dark circular object (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hand (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • light-skinned
  • dark
  • purple
  • reddish-brown

Composition

  • central hand
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The image is highly pixelated. A light-skinned hand occupies the lower center, fingers extended upward toward a small dark circular object held between thumb and forefinger. The background consists of dark areas with patches of deep purple and reddish-brown hues. No text or additional objects are visible in the frame.

Description

A pixelated image shows a light-skinned hand with fingers extended, holding a small dark object against a dark background with purple and red tones.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080204115452856328681

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hand holding small dark object pixelated
  • dark background purple reddish-brown tones

Objects

  • small dark circular object

Style

  • pixelated

Subjects

  • hand

Wordwall

  • light-skinned hand
  • fingers extended
  • small dark object
  • dark background
  • purple tones
  • reddish-brown tones
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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
20080204115452856328681
Archive entry
20080204115452856328681.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:13 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#20080204115452856328681.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080204115452856328681.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016