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Red and white spiral pattern with black text 'jacob' repeated in a circular arrangement, surrounded by letters b, l, a, c, k on a white background.

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Red and white spiral pattern with black text 'jacob' repeated in a circular arrangement, surrounded by letters b, l, a, c, k on a white background.

Red and white spiral pattern with black text 'jacob' repeated in a circular arrangement, surrounded by letters b, l, a, c, k on a white background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ic…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations; static image with consistent spiral pattern and text arrangement.

Composition

  • centered spiral
  • circular text arrangement
  • cardinal letter placement

Dense Caption

Red and white spiral pattern with black text 'jacob' repeated in a circular arrangement, surrounded by letters b, l, a, c, k on a white background. The spiral consists of alternating red and white bands forming a clockwise spiral. The text 'jacob' appears in a consistent font across all spiral segments. The letters b, l, a, c, k are positioned at the cardinal points around the spiral. The image has a pixelated appearance with visible dithering. The spiral pattern is centered in the frame with equal spacing between text elements. The red color is a bright, saturated hue. The white background is solid and untextured. The text 'jacob' is consistently oriented with the spiral's curvature. The letters b, l, a, c, k are positioned at the top, left, bottom, right, and center respectively. The spiral has approximately 10-12 visible bands. The text 'jacob' appears in lowercase letters. The letters b, l, a, c, k are also lowercase. The image shows no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

Red and white spiral pattern with black text 'jacob' repeated in a circular arrangement, surrounded by letters b, l, a, c, k on a white background.

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
  • 20090620101718132230493

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red white spiral jacob text
  • jacob spiral text pattern
  • b l a c k jacob spiral
  • spiral text buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • consistent across observations

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Subjects

  • spiral pattern

Visible Text

  • jacob
  • b
  • l
  • a
  • c
  • k

Wordwall

  • red and white spiral
  • black text 'jacob'
  • letters b l a c k
  • circular arrangement
  • clockwise spiral
  • pixelated appearance
  • solid white background
  • lowercase text
  • 10-12 spiral bands
  • cardinal letter positions

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090620101718132230493
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/35/35fc9bf9e70581009ab63835cc07289e6d849b7153a59b72fee095ac87830fb7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
35fc9bf9e7058100
SHA-256
35fc9bf9e70581009ab63835cc07289e6d849b7153a59b72fee095ac87830fb7
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:40 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088015

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.923645onnx/unsafe0.088015onnx/nsfw0.052423onnx/nsfl0.035592
Enrichment records (1)
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Red and white spiral pattern with black text 'jacob' repeated in a circular arrangement, surrounded by letters b, l, a, c, k on a white background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 12:43 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,360 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 971

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • geometric (mood, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible motion (other, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • spiral design (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)
  • spiral pattern (subject, 0.80)
  • text elements (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes across observations; static image with consistent spiral pattern and text arrangement.

Colors

  • red
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • centered spiral
  • circular text arrangement
  • cardinal letter placement

Dense Caption

Red and white spiral pattern with black text 'jacob' repeated in a circular arrangement, surrounded by letters b, l, a, c, k on a white background. The spiral consists of alternating red and white bands forming a clockwise spiral. The text 'jacob' appears in a consistent font across all spiral segments. The letters b, l, a, c, k are positioned at the cardinal points around the spiral. The image has a pixelated appearance with visible dithering. The spiral pattern is centered in the frame with equal spacing between text elements. The red color is a bright, saturated hue. The white background is solid and untextured. The text 'jacob' is consistently oriented with the spiral's curvature. The letters b, l, a, c, k are positioned at the top, left, bottom, right, and center respectively. The spiral has approximately 10-12 visible bands. The text 'jacob' appears in lowercase letters. The letters b, l, a, c, k are also lowercase. The image shows no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

Red and white spiral pattern with black text 'jacob' repeated in a circular arrangement, surrounded by letters b, l, a, c, k on a white background.

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
  • 20090620101718132230493

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • geometric

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red white spiral jacob text
  • jacob spiral text pattern
  • b l a c k jacob spiral
  • spiral text buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • consistent across observations

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • text-based
  • spiral design

Subjects

  • spiral pattern
  • text elements

Visible Text

  • jacob
  • b
  • l
  • a
  • c
  • k

Wordwall

  • red and white spiral
  • black text 'jacob'
  • letters b l a c k
  • circular arrangement
  • clockwise spiral
  • pixelated appearance
  • solid white background
  • lowercase text
  • 10-12 spiral bands
  • cardinal letter positions
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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
20090620101718132230493
Archive entry
20090620101718132230493.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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#20090620101718132230493.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090620101718132230493.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016