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Four identical red and black spiral patterns with green text reading "Tom computers" arranged in a on a black background

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Four identical red and black spiral patterns with green text reading "Tom computers" arranged in a on a black background

Four identical red and black spiral patterns with green text reading "Tom computers" arranged in a on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four spiral patterns are identical with no motion observed.

Composition

  • evenly spaced
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating red and black concentric rings forming a clockwise spiral. Overlaid on each spiral is green text: "Tom" positioned above "computers". The background of the entire image is solid black. The spirals are evenly spaced with no visible gaps between them. The text is rendered in a pixelated, retro digital font. The image has a high-contrast, low-resolution appearance typical of early digital graphics. All four spirals are visually identical with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical red and black spiral patterns with green text reading "Tom computers" arranged in a on a black 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200707280737131697511259
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red black spiral green text
  • Tom computers spiral
  • pixelated Tom computers
  • retro digital spiral text
  • four identical spiral patterns
  • green text red spiral black background
  • Tom computers pixel art
  • spiral

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical red and black spiral patterns with green text reading "Tom computers" arranged in a 2x2 grid on a black background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 spiral grid
  • quarantined retrieval: Tom computers spiral grid

Visible Text

  • Tom
  • computers

Wordwall

  • red and black spiral
  • green text
  • Tom computers
  • pixelated font
  • solid black background
  • concentric rings
  • clockwise spiral
  • four identical spirals
  • retro digital graphics

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707280737131697511259
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/37/3792e00bc7b0485f31503aba304583be48f0d4e83555b7d20451110fac7346a1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC
Archive ID
3792e00bc7b0485f
SHA-256
3792e00bc7b0485f31503aba304583be48f0d4e83555b7d20451110fac7346a1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:41 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074556

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

Four identical red and black spiral patterns with green text reading "Tom computers" arranged in a on a black background

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 15:28 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,588 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 755

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four spiral patterns are identical with no motion observed.

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • green

Composition

  • evenly spaced
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating red and black concentric rings forming a clockwise spiral. Overlaid on each spiral is green text: "Tom" positioned above "computers". The background of the entire image is solid black. The spirals are evenly spaced with no visible gaps between them. The text is rendered in a pixelated, retro digital font. The image has a high-contrast, low-resolution appearance typical of early digital graphics. All four spirals are visually identical with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical red and black spiral patterns with green text reading "Tom computers" arranged in a on a black 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200707280737131697511259
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red black spiral green text
  • Tom computers spiral
  • pixelated Tom computers
  • retro digital spiral text
  • four identical spiral patterns
  • green text red spiral black background
  • Tom computers pixel art
  • spiral

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 spiral grid
  • quarantined retrieval: Tom computers spiral grid

Style

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  • Tom
  • computers

Wordwall

  • red and black spiral
  • green text
  • Tom computers
  • pixelated font
  • solid black background
  • concentric rings
  • clockwise spiral
  • four identical spirals
  • retro digital graphics
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:32 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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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
200707280737131697511259
Archive entry
200707280737131697511259.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 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#200707280737131697511259.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707280737131697511259.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016