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A pixelated image shows a brown hand holding a yellow and black striped object against a blue-gray background.

A pixelated image shows a brown hand holding a yellow and black striped object against a blue-gray background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Eggman Empire AIM Ico…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • hand in upper portion
  • striped object held by hand
  • partial face figure below
  • indistinct background

Dense Caption

The image is highly pixelated with visible blocky artifacts. A brown-colored hand appears in the upper portion, positioned as if grasping or holding an object. The held object features alternating thick horizontal stripes of bright yellow and dark gray/black. Below the hand and object, there are scattered blue and white pixels forming irregular shapes that suggest partial details of a face or figure with red accents near the bottom center. The background consists of muted blue-gray tones with subtle pixel variations indicating an indistinct backdrop. No text is visible in the image.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a brown hand holding a yellow and black striped object against a blue-gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): eggman
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): drift
  • observation title (curated-homogeneous): drift
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): drift
  • provenance era: 2001
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive Eggman Empire AIM Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance cultural-slice: Dr. Eggman and Sonic game-fandom identity icons
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Game Fandom
  • provenance collection-attribute: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: internet-archive
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive item explicitly labeled AIM icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hand yellow black stripes blue gray background
  • pixelated striped object brown hand
  • blue white red scattered shapes pixelated

Subjects

  • hand

Visually Supported Entities

  • hand
  • striped object
  • partial face figure

Wordwall

  • brown hand
  • yellow black stripes
  • blue gray background
  • pixelated blocky artifacts
  • red accents
  • scattered blue white shapes

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b9/b970b90960adbfc603c9ee43b3447427cb5b3d3479826d4788b97ed558b0ec2c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC
Archive ID
b970b90960adbfc6
SHA-256
b970b90960adbfc603c9ee43b3447427cb5b3d3479826d4788b97ed558b0ec2c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:33 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097741

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.902259onnx/unsafe0.097741onnx/nsfw0.053500onnx/nsfl0.044241
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A pixelated image shows a brown hand holding a yellow and black striped object against a blue-gray background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 02:15 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,363 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,047, response 711

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • hand (subject, 0.80)
  • partial face figure (subject, 0.80)
  • striped object (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding

Colors

  • brown
  • yellow
  • black
  • blue
  • gray
  • white
  • red

Composition

  • hand in upper portion
  • striped object held by hand
  • partial face figure below
  • indistinct background

Dense Caption

The image is highly pixelated with visible blocky artifacts. A brown-colored hand appears in the upper portion, positioned as if grasping or holding an object. The held object features alternating thick horizontal stripes of bright yellow and dark gray/black. Below the hand and object, there are scattered blue and white pixels forming irregular shapes that suggest partial details of a face or figure with red accents near the bottom center. The background consists of muted blue-gray tones with subtle pixel variations indicating an indistinct backdrop. No text is visible in the image.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a brown hand holding a yellow and black striped object against a blue-gray background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): eggman
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): drift
  • observation title (curated-homogeneous): drift
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): drift
  • provenance era: 2001
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive Eggman Empire AIM Icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: characters
  • provenance cultural-slice: Dr. Eggman and Sonic game-fandom identity icons
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Game Fandom
  • provenance collection-attribute: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: internet-archive
  • provenance source-type: Internet Archive item explicitly labeled AIM icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown hand yellow black stripes blue gray background
  • pixelated striped object brown hand
  • blue white red scattered shapes pixelated

Objects

  • striped object

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • hand
  • striped object
  • partial face figure

Visually Supported Entities

  • hand
  • striped object
  • partial face figure

Wordwall

  • brown hand
  • yellow black stripes
  • blue gray background
  • pixelated blocky artifacts
  • red accents
  • scattered blue white shapes
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive Eggman Empire AIM Icons (internet-archive-eggman-empire-aim-icons)

Kind
internet-archive-item
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Game Fandom
Type
Internet Archive item explicitly labeled AIM icons
Title
drift
Alt
drift
Archive entry
drift.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC
Rights
copyrighted game imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
Dr. Eggman and Sonic game-fandom identity icons

Original: https://archive.org/download/EggmanEmpire-AimIcons/drift.gif#drift.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/EggmanEmpire-AimIcons/drift.gif#drift.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/EggmanEmpire-AimIcons