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A static image with four identical spiral patterns in pink and cyan, overlaid with partially visible text fragments.

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A static image with four identical spiral patterns in pink and cyan, overlaid with partially visible text fragments.

A static image with four identical spiral patterns in pink and cyan, overlaid with partially visible text fragments. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

The image displays a grid of four identical spirals arranged in two rows and two columns. Each spiral consists of alternating pink and cyan concentric rings forming a clockwise swirl pattern against a solid cyan background. Overlaid on the spirals is dark purple pixelated text that reads "the w", "used to spesed to spe", "r", and "gor" across multiple lines, with some letters partially obscured or cut off at edges.

Description

  • A static image with four identical spiral patterns in pink and cyan, overlaid with partially visible text fragments.

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
  • 200805041509391928629075

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink cyan spiral text fragments
  • pixelated text four spirals
  • cyan background pink rings
  • spiral pattern dark purple text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Visible Text

  • the w
  • used to spesed to spe
  • r
  • gor

Wordwall

  • four identical spirals
  • pink cyan concentric rings
  • clockwise swirl pattern
  • solid cyan background
  • dark purple pixelated text
  • "the w" fragments
  • "used to spesed to spe" fragments
  • "r" fragments
  • "gor" fragments

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805041509391928629075
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 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
icons/34/3450cfba9862061c1f907a2b4a10389b8d1afec87bfec1aed14b53f52e5a957e.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 UTC
Archive ID
3450cfba9862061c
SHA-256
3450cfba9862061c1f907a2b4a10389b8d1afec87bfec1aed14b53f52e5a957e
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 6, 2026 at 06:59 UTC
Run
1269
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000042

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:38 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Enrichment records (1)
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A static image with four identical spiral patterns in pink and cyan, overlaid with partially visible text fragments.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 12:04 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,851 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 675

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark purple (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • hypnotic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • retro (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive pattern (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • pink
  • dark purple

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • symmetrical arrangement

Dense Caption

The image displays a grid of four identical spirals arranged in two rows and two columns. Each spiral consists of alternating pink and cyan concentric rings forming a clockwise swirl pattern against a solid cyan background. Overlaid on the spirals is dark purple pixelated text that reads "the w", "used to spesed to spe", "r", and "gor" across multiple lines, with some letters partially obscured or cut off at edges.

Description

  • A static image with four identical spiral patterns in pink and cyan, overlaid with partially visible text fragments.

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
  • 200805041509391928629075

Mood

  • hypnotic
  • retro
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink cyan spiral text fragments
  • pixelated text four spirals
  • cyan background pink rings
  • spiral pattern dark purple text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: grid layout

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • repetitive pattern

Visible Text

  • the w
  • used to spesed to spe
  • r
  • gor

Wordwall

  • four identical spirals
  • pink cyan concentric rings
  • clockwise swirl pattern
  • solid cyan background
  • dark purple pixelated text
  • "the w" fragments
  • "used to spesed to spe" fragments
  • "r" fragments
  • "gor" fragments
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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
200805041509391928629075
Archive entry
200805041509391928629075.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:25 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#200805041509391928629075.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805041509391928629075.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016