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A hand holds a small brown object with a black top and a chain, against a white background.

A hand holds a small brown object with a black top and a chain, against a white background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-20…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • hand centered
  • object centered
  • solid white background

Dense Caption

A hand with light skin tone holds a small brown object with a black top and a chain. The object has a textured surface with brown and white patterns. The background is solid white. The image is pixelated with visible dithering. The hand is positioned palm-up with fingers slightly curled. The object is centered in the hand. The chain is attached to the black top of the object. The object appears to be a small container or case.

Description

  • A hand holds a small brown object with a black top and a chain, against a white 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hand holding small brown object
  • small brown object with black top
  • chain attached to small brown object
  • pixelated hand holding object
  • solid white background hand object
  • small brown container with chain
  • light skin tone hand holding object
  • textured brown and white object

Subjects

  • hand

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  • hand
  • light skin tone
  • small brown object
  • black top
  • chain
  • textured surface
  • brown and white patterns
  • solid white background
  • pixelated
  • dithering
  • palm-up
  • fingers curled
  • centered
  • attached chain
  • small container

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709010902391041031647
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e5/e5e6deffb0a86be6d1e55cfd1372c045473787be6457e9f577df7293359dc239.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
e5e6deffb0a86be6
SHA-256
e5e6deffb0a86be6d1e55cfd1372c045473787be6457e9f577df7293359dc239
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:57 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.070040

OpenAI category scores

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

A hand holds a small brown object with a black top and a chain, against a white background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 08:49 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,029 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,091, response 660

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light skin tone (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • chain (object, 0.80)
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  • hand (subject, 0.80)
  • small brown object (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • light skin tone
  • brown
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • hand centered
  • object centered
  • solid white background

Dense Caption

A hand with light skin tone holds a small brown object with a black top and a chain. The object has a textured surface with brown and white patterns. The background is solid white. The image is pixelated with visible dithering. The hand is positioned palm-up with fingers slightly curled. The object is centered in the hand. The chain is attached to the black top of the object. The object appears to be a small container or case.

Description

  • A hand holds a small brown object with a black top and a chain, against a white 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hand holding small brown object
  • small brown object with black top
  • chain attached to small brown object
  • pixelated hand holding object
  • solid white background hand object
  • small brown container with chain
  • light skin tone hand holding object
  • textured brown and white object

Objects

  • chain
  • small brown object

Style

  • pixelated
  • dithered

Subjects

  • hand
  • small brown object

Wordwall

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  • light skin tone
  • small brown object
  • black top
  • chain
  • textured surface
  • brown and white patterns
  • solid white background
  • pixelated
  • dithering
  • palm-up
  • fingers curled
  • centered
  • attached chain
  • small container
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:51 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)
Raw JSON
Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200709010902391041031647
Archive entry
200709010902391041031647.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#200709010902391041031647.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709010902391041031647.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016