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Animated icon shows a skull with red and gold colors, then transitions to a hand making a middle finger gesture against a dark background.

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Animated icon shows a skull with red and gold colors, then transitions to a hand making a middle finger gesture against a dark background.

Animated icon shows a skull with red and gold colors, then transitions to a hand making a middle finger gesture against a dark background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • frame 1: skull
  • frame 2: hand gesture

Animation Summary

  • The icon transitions from a skull with red and gold elements to a hand making a middle finger gesture.

Composition

  • centered
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The icon is a two-frame animation. First frame: a stylized skull with red and gold coloring, black eye sockets, and a red flag-like shape behind it on a dark background. Second frame: a hand with a middle finger extended, rendered in bright yellow and orange tones with a red glow, positioned against a dark background. Both frames use pixelated rendering with limited color palette.

Description

  • Animated icon shows a skull with red and gold colors, then transitions to a hand making a middle finger gesture against a dark background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • 20081009191505334660143
  • 200810091956251298036216

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • skull middle finger animation
  • red gold skull hand gesture
  • pixelated middle finger animation
  • dark background skull hand
  • animation skull gesture

Objects

  • flag

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no visible matte
  • quarantined wordwall: two-frame animation
  • quarantined retrieval: two frame animation skull gesture

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

Subjects

  • skull
  • hand

Wordwall

  • stylized skull
  • red and gold colors
  • black eye sockets
  • red flag shape
  • dark background
  • middle finger gesture
  • bright yellow and orange hand
  • red glow
  • pixelated rendering
  • animation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081009191505334660143
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200810091956251298036216
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.6 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e3/e319d846f6dd1f024c06e7bdba64c44d4d10ad7d387ca584ec47ff60f1ea46fc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
e319d846f6dd1f02
SHA-256
e319d846f6dd1f024c06e7bdba64c44d4d10ad7d387ca584ec47ff60f1ea46fc
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:24 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080782

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926606onnx/unsafe0.080782onnx/nsfw0.044115onnx/nsfl0.036667
Enrichment records (1)
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Animated icon shows a skull with red and gold colors, then transitions to a hand making a middle finger gesture against a dark background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 03:32 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,785 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,186, response 807

Review tags

  • gesture (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gold (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • defiant (mood, 0.80)
  • provocative (mood, 0.80)
  • flag (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • stylized (style, 0.80)
  • hand (subject, 0.80)
  • skull (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • gesture

Animation

  • frame 1: skull
  • frame 2: hand gesture

Animation Summary

  • The icon transitions from a skull with red and gold elements to a hand making a middle finger gesture.

Colors

  • red
  • gold
  • black
  • yellow
  • orange

Composition

  • centered
  • dark background

Dense Caption

The icon is a two-frame animation. First frame: a stylized skull with red and gold coloring, black eye sockets, and a red flag-like shape behind it on a dark background. Second frame: a hand with a middle finger extended, rendered in bright yellow and orange tones with a red glow, positioned against a dark background. Both frames use pixelated rendering with limited color palette.

Description

  • Animated icon shows a skull with red and gold colors, then transitions to a hand making a middle finger gesture against a dark background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • 20081009191505334660143
  • 200810091956251298036216

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • provocative
  • defiant

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • skull middle finger animation
  • red gold skull hand gesture
  • pixelated middle finger animation
  • dark background skull hand
  • animation skull gesture

Objects

  • flag

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no visible matte
  • quarantined wordwall: two-frame animation
  • quarantined retrieval: two frame animation skull gesture

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • stylized

Subjects

  • skull
  • hand

Wordwall

  • stylized skull
  • red and gold colors
  • black eye sockets
  • red flag shape
  • dark background
  • middle finger gesture
  • bright yellow and orange hand
  • red glow
  • pixelated rendering
  • animation
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Full source records (2)

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
20081009191505334660143
Archive entry
20081009191505334660143.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#20081009191505334660143.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081009191505334660143.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200810091956251298036216
Archive entry
200810091956251298036216.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#200810091956251298036216.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200810091956251298036216.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016