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Four identical red and green spiral patterns with 'merry christmas' text in black pixelated font on each quadrant.

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Four identical red and green spiral patterns with 'merry christmas' text in black pixelated font on each quadrant.

Four identical red and green spiral patterns with 'merry christmas' text in black pixelated font on each quadrant. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • quadrants
  • identical spirals

Dense Caption

The image displays four quadrants arranged in a 2x2 grid, each containing an identical red and green spiral pattern. The spirals consist of alternating red and green bands forming a continuous swirl from the center outward. Overlaid on each spiral is the text 'merry christmas' in black pixelated font; 'merry' appears above 'christmas'. All four quadrants are visually indistinguishable, showing no variation between them.

Description

  • Four identical red and green spiral patterns with 'merry christmas' text in black pixelated font on each quadrant.

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: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071209160354177273021

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry christmas spiral
  • red green pixelated text
  • four quadrant spiral
  • festive retro icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: grid
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Visible Text

  • merry christmas

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  • spiral
  • merry
  • christmas
  • pixelated
  • text
  • quadrant

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071209160354177273021
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 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 15:03 UTC
Archive ID
34d6e7587f11aec7
SHA-256
34d6e7587f11aec72b8e5fa034a6ba2d75fd9dcf8fe3ba74505f0760d2ec9e97
Content-safety assessments (1)
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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
0.082953

OpenAI category scores

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Four identical red and green spiral patterns with 'merry christmas' text in black pixelated font on each quadrant.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 00:47 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,724 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 633

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • festive (mood, 0.80)
  • retro (mood, 0.80)
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  • text overlaid (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • green
  • black

Composition

  • quadrants
  • identical spirals

Dense Caption

The image displays four quadrants arranged in a 2x2 grid, each containing an identical red and green spiral pattern. The spirals consist of alternating red and green bands forming a continuous swirl from the center outward. Overlaid on each spiral is the text 'merry christmas' in black pixelated font; 'merry' appears above 'christmas'. All four quadrants are visually indistinguishable, showing no variation between them.

Description

  • Four identical red and green spiral patterns with 'merry christmas' text in black pixelated font on each quadrant.

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: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071209160354177273021

Mood

  • festive
  • retro

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • merry christmas spiral
  • red green pixelated text
  • four quadrant spiral
  • festive retro icon

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-overlaid
  • repeating-pattern

Visible Text

  • merry christmas

Wordwall

  • red
  • green
  • spiral
  • merry
  • christmas
  • pixelated
  • text
  • quadrant
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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
20071209160354177273021
Archive entry
20071209160354177273021.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 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#20071209160354177273021.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071209160354177273021.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016