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Pixelated silver hand icon with extended index finger pointing left, two upright fingers behind it, and a rounded thumb on the right against black background.

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Pixelated silver hand icon with extended index finger pointing left, two upright fingers behind it, and a rounded thumb on the right against black background.

Pixelated silver hand icon with extended index finger pointing left, two upright fingers behind it, and a rounded thumb on the right against black background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image with no visible motion changes.

Composition

  • central hand figure
  • asymmetrical arrangement of fingers

Dense Caption

Static pixel art image shows a stylized hand composed of light gray to white pixels. The hand has four distinct parts: an elongated index finger angled downward-left, a shorter middle finger standing vertically, two taller parallel ring and pinky fingers forming a vertical stack behind the middle finger, and a rounded thumb positioned right of center. All elements are rendered in shades of silver-gray on solid black background with no visible text or additional objects.

Description

Pixelated silver hand icon with extended index finger pointing left, two upright fingers behind it, and a rounded thumb on the right against black 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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200811201811221900189634

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • silver hand pixel art
  • index finger pointing left
  • hand with four fingers
  • black background hand icon
  • pixelated silver thumb and fingers

Subjects

  • hand

Wordwall

  • hand
  • index finger
  • middle finger
  • ring finger
  • pinky finger
  • thumb
  • silver
  • gray
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • static

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811201811221900189634
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
884 bytes
Motion
Still image
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 15:43 UTC
Archive ID
e92b8926e371d2fc
SHA-256
e92b8926e371d2fcd9aa505059f68257a97fc3bf2769f5ca1bdca99b5782a487
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 1, 2026 at 20:44 UTC
Run
1254
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.007435

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July 23, 2026 at 19:58 UTC
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Pixelated silver hand icon with extended index finger pointing left, two upright fingers behind it, and a rounded thumb on the right against black background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 09:49 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,460 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,092, response 569

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • silver (color, 0.80)
  • finger (object, 0.80)
  • thumb (object, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • hand (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No animation present; static image with no visible motion changes.

Colors

  • silver
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • central hand figure
  • asymmetrical arrangement of fingers

Dense Caption

Static pixel art image shows a stylized hand composed of light gray to white pixels. The hand has four distinct parts: an elongated index finger angled downward-left, a shorter middle finger standing vertically, two taller parallel ring and pinky fingers forming a vertical stack behind the middle finger, and a rounded thumb positioned right of center. All elements are rendered in shades of silver-gray on solid black background with no visible text or additional objects.

Description

Pixelated silver hand icon with extended index finger pointing left, two upright fingers behind it, and a rounded thumb on the right against black 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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200811201811221900189634

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • silver hand pixel art
  • index finger pointing left
  • hand with four fingers
  • black background hand icon
  • pixelated silver thumb and fingers

Objects

  • finger
  • thumb

Style

  • pixel art
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • hand

Wordwall

  • hand
  • index finger
  • middle finger
  • ring finger
  • pinky finger
  • thumb
  • silver
  • gray
  • black background
  • pixelated
  • static
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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
200811201811221900189634
Archive entry
200811201811221900189634.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#200811201811221900189634.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811201811221900189634.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016