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Four identical spiral patterns in green and blue with the word "OBEY" displayed below each spiral.

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Four identical spiral patterns in green and blue with the word "OBEY" displayed below each spiral.

Four identical spiral patterns in green and blue with the word "OBEY" displayed below each spiral. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four identical elements
  • central alignment of text under spirals

Dense Caption

The image consists of four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral features alternating bands of bright green and light blue, forming a continuous swirling design. Below each spiral is the text "OBEY" rendered in bold black pixelated letters with slight distortion. The spirals are positioned symmetrically against a solid background that matches the outermost color band of the spirals.

Description

  • Four identical spiral patterns in green and blue with the word "OBEY" displayed below each spiral.

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
  • 20070915133544963267918

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • spiral OBEY text
  • green blue spiral
  • pixelated OBEY spirals
  • four identical spirals with text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: symmetrical grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: green blue spiral grid

Visible Text

  • OBEY

Wordwall

  • four identical spirals
  • green and blue bands
  • text OBEY below each spiral
  • pixelated text
  • symmetrical

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070915133544963267918
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.8 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 14:45 UTC
Archive ID
1115743a5fbd2ace
SHA-256
1115743a5fbd2aced50bcb1ff9c861a3627e0f347c5636a8fd01e64288746003
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:01 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.095954

OpenAI category scores

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Four identical spiral patterns in green and blue with the word "OBEY" displayed below each spiral.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 02:21 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,753 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 635

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • hypnotic (mood, 0.80)
  • repetitive (mood, 0.80)
  • stark (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • symmetrical (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • blue
  • black

Composition

  • four identical elements
  • central alignment of text under spirals

Dense Caption

The image consists of four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral features alternating bands of bright green and light blue, forming a continuous swirling design. Below each spiral is the text "OBEY" rendered in bold black pixelated letters with slight distortion. The spirals are positioned symmetrically against a solid background that matches the outermost color band of the spirals.

Description

  • Four identical spiral patterns in green and blue with the word "OBEY" displayed below each spiral.

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
  • 20070915133544963267918

Mood

  • hypnotic
  • repetitive
  • stark

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • spiral OBEY text
  • green blue spiral
  • pixelated OBEY spirals
  • four identical spirals with text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: symmetrical grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: green blue spiral grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • symmetrical

Visible Text

  • OBEY

Wordwall

  • four identical spirals
  • green and blue bands
  • text OBEY below each spiral
  • pixelated text
  • symmetrical
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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
20070915133544963267918
Archive entry
20070915133544963267918.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:45 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#20070915133544963267918.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070915133544963267918.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016