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

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

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

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Mood

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Source terms

Composition

  • quadrant arrangement
  • symmetrical

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 'anberlin' 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 are visually identical across all four quadrants. The text 'anberlin' is consistently positioned within the spiral's center area on each quadrant. The image uses a limited color palette of red, black, and white. The spirals have a pixelated, low-resolution appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text 'anberlin' 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • anberlin spiral
  • red black spiral
  • four spirals anberlin
  • pixelated anberlin text
  • spiral
  • anberlin text spiral
  • red black white spiral
  • spiral text

Preprocessing Notes

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

Visible Text

  • anberlin

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • red and black
  • anberlin text
  • pixelated font
  • concentric rings
  • clockwise spiral
  • white text
  • black background
  • identical quadrants

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708281724161489331604
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.2 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 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
372cf1f98c1f3991
SHA-256
372cf1f98c1f399135bae8a8a6a8deddf7b94e07f7565a0416b7a42208c2416b
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onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

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

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 06:47 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,809 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 769

Review tags

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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • quadrant arrangement
  • symmetrical

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 'anberlin' 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 are visually identical across all four quadrants. The text 'anberlin' is consistently positioned within the spiral's center area on each quadrant. The image uses a limited color palette of red, black, and white. The spirals have a pixelated, low-resolution appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text 'anberlin' 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • hypnotic
  • repetitive

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  • red black spiral
  • four spirals anberlin
  • pixelated anberlin text
  • spiral
  • anberlin text spiral
  • red black white spiral
  • spiral text

Objects

  • spirals
  • text

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Style

  • pixelated
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  • digital graphics

Subjects

  • spirals
  • text

Visible Text

  • anberlin

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • red and black
  • anberlin text
  • pixelated font
  • concentric rings
  • clockwise spiral
  • white text
  • black background
  • identical quadrants
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:29 UTC
Run
52
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)
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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
200708281724161489331604
Archive entry
200708281724161489331604.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#200708281724161489331604.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708281724161489331604.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016