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A pixelated close-up of a person's hand holding a small object against a dark background with a light-colored surface below.

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A pixelated close-up of a person's hand holding a small object against a dark background with a light-colored surface below.

A pixelated close-up of a person's hand holding a small object against a dark background with a light-colored surface below. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • close-up
  • hand centered
  • object held

Dense Caption

The image shows a close-up of a hand holding a small dark object with visible fingers and a thumb. The hand appears to be positioned above a light-colored surface. The background is dark and indistinct. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance with visible blocky artifacts. The hand is light-skinned. The object held by the hand is dark and elongated. The lighting creates a bright spot on the hand. The overall image quality is low with significant pixelation.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a person's hand holding a small object against a dark background with a light-colored surface below.

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
  • 20100118113233797340081
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hand holding object pixelated
  • light skin hand dark object
  • pixelated hand close-up
  • dark background light surface

Preprocessing Notes

  • image is pixelated

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

Subjects

  • hand

Wordwall

  • hand holding object
  • light-skinned hand
  • dark object
  • light surface
  • dark background
  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • bright spot on hand

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100118113233797340081
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fe/fe2c94d22b8edfc9b39f678dfb3c007ac84b162c4adae46c7e40cdef8afd285b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
fe2c94d22b8edfc9
SHA-256
fe2c94d22b8edfc9b39f678dfb3c007ac84b162c4adae46c7e40cdef8afd285b
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 16:32 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000912

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Assessed
July 26, 2026 at 01:39 UTC
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1191
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Overall label
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:09 UTC
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OpenAI category scores

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

A pixelated close-up of a person's hand holding a small object against a dark background with a light-colored surface below.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 16:26 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,148 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,086, response 782

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • bright spot (color, 0.80)
  • dark (color, 0.80)
  • dark background (color, 0.80)
  • light skin (color, 0.80)
  • light surface (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hand (subject, 0.80)
  • object (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • light skin
  • dark
  • light surface
  • dark background
  • bright spot

Composition

  • close-up
  • hand centered
  • object held

Dense Caption

The image shows a close-up of a hand holding a small dark object with visible fingers and a thumb. The hand appears to be positioned above a light-colored surface. The background is dark and indistinct. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance with visible blocky artifacts. The hand is light-skinned. The object held by the hand is dark and elongated. The lighting creates a bright spot on the hand. The overall image quality is low with significant pixelation.

Description

  • A pixelated close-up of a person's hand holding a small object against a dark background with a light-colored surface below.

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
  • 20100118113233797340081
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • hand holding object pixelated
  • light skin hand dark object
  • pixelated hand close-up
  • dark background light surface

Objects

  • object

Preprocessing Notes

  • image is pixelated

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution

Subjects

  • hand
  • object

Wordwall

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  • light-skinned hand
  • dark object
  • light surface
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 21:59 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20100118113233797340081
Archive entry
20100118113233797340081.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#20100118113233797340081.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100118113233797340081.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016