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Four identical blue and black spiral icons with white pixelated text reading "i am board so i made this icon" arranged in a

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Four identical blue and black spiral icons with white pixelated text reading "i am board so i made this icon" arranged in a

Four identical blue and black spiral icons with white pixelated text reading "i am board so i made this icon" arranged in a. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archiv…

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Mood

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Source terms

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • central spiral focus

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical square icons arranged in a two-by-two grid. Each icon features a central blue spiral pattern surrounded by concentric black rings on a solid blue background. White pixelated text is overlaid on the spirals, reading "i am board so i made this icon" across five lines: "i", "am", "board", "so i made", and "this icon". The icons are visually identical with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical blue and black spiral icons with white pixelated text reading "i am board so i made this icon" arranged in a

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

  • blue spiral pixel art icon
  • i am board so i made this icon text
  • four identical buddy icons
  • retro digital icon set

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical blue and black spiral icons with white pixelated text reading "i am board so i made this icon" arranged in a 2x2 grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: retro digital 2x2 icon set
  • quarantined retrieval: four identical buddy icons grid

Subjects

  • spiral pattern

Visible Text

  • i
  • am
  • board
  • so i made
  • this icon

Visually Supported Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200801021909342092923823

Wordwall

  • blue spiral
  • black rings
  • white pixelated text
  • four identical icons
  • text: i am board so i made this icon

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801021909342092923823
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
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 15:08 UTC
Archive ID
0d9c3af73c193369
SHA-256
0d9c3af73c19336951799777d6ab1baf7624f601637c6c3902a5e8f4e7182f35
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:57 UTC
Run
106
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Four identical blue and black spiral icons with white pixelated text reading "i am board so i made this icon" arranged in a

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 07:11 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,408 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,116, response 698

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible motion changes (other, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated text (subject, 0.80)
  • spiral pattern (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Colors

  • blue
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • central spiral focus

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical square icons arranged in a two-by-two grid. Each icon features a central blue spiral pattern surrounded by concentric black rings on a solid blue background. White pixelated text is overlaid on the spirals, reading "i am board so i made this icon" across five lines: "i", "am", "board", "so i made", and "this icon". The icons are visually identical with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical blue and black spiral icons with white pixelated text reading "i am board so i made this icon" arranged in a

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)

Mood

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  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue spiral pixel art icon
  • i am board so i made this icon text
  • four identical buddy icons
  • retro digital icon set

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined retrieval: retro digital 2x2 icon set
  • quarantined retrieval: four identical buddy icons grid

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  • retro digital

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  • pixelated text

Visible Text

  • i
  • am
  • board
  • so i made
  • this icon

Visually Supported Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200801021909342092923823

Wordwall

  • blue spiral
  • black rings
  • white pixelated text
  • four identical icons
  • text: i am board so i made this icon
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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
200801021909342092923823
Archive entry
200801021909342092923823.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 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#200801021909342092923823.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801021909342092923823.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016