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Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text "SethM" in white pixelated font

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Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text "SethM" in white pixelated font

Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text "SethM" in white pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fran…

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Source terms

Composition

  • four identical spirals
  • text overlaid on spirals

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating red and black concentric rings forming a clockwise spiral. The text "SethM" appears in white pixelated font overlaid on each spiral. The spirals are positioned in the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right quadrants of the image. The background is black. The spirals have a consistent red and black color scheme with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text "SethM" in white pixelated font

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • SethM spiral icon
  • red black white spiral text
  • four identical spiral patterns
  • pixelated SethM text
  • spiral icon
  • SethM white text red spiral
  • red spiral black background text
  • SethM

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid, each containing the text "SethM" in white pixelated font.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: SethM grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid spiral icon

Visible Text

  • SethM

Wordwall

  • red and black spiral patterns
  • white pixelated text
  • text reads "SethM"
  • four identical spirals
  • concentric rings
  • clockwise spiral
  • black background
  • pixelated font
  • text overlaid on spirals

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201101031509411098978300
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.7 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 16:07 UTC
Archive ID
3522e41e145073bf
SHA-256
3522e41e145073bffc02384e08fd875fdc15a231dc8e1be59e060d43251cd47f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:39 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.120018

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text "SethM" in white pixelated font

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 21:50 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,950 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 719

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • four identical spirals
  • text overlaid on spirals

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating red and black concentric rings forming a clockwise spiral. The text "SethM" appears in white pixelated font overlaid on each spiral. The spirals are positioned in the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right quadrants of the image. The background is black. The spirals have a consistent red and black color scheme with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text "SethM" in white pixelated font

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • SethM spiral icon
  • red black white spiral text
  • four identical spiral patterns
  • pixelated SethM text
  • spiral icon
  • SethM white text red spiral
  • red spiral black background text
  • SethM

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: SethM grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid spiral icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • repetitive

Visible Text

  • SethM

Wordwall

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  • white pixelated text
  • text reads "SethM"
  • four identical spirals
  • concentric rings
  • clockwise spiral
  • black background
  • pixelated font
  • text overlaid on spirals
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 23:21 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
201101031509411098978300
Archive entry
201101031509411098978300.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 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#201101031509411098978300.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201101031509411098978300.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016