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Four identical spiral patterns in yellow and pink with the name "Michelle" overlaid in white text on each spiral.

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Four identical spiral patterns in yellow and pink with the name "Michelle" overlaid in white text on each spiral.

Four identical spiral patterns in yellow and pink with the name "Michelle" overlaid in white text on each spiral. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIco…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • central text
  • concentric rings

Dense Caption

The image consists of four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral features alternating yellow and pink concentric rings. White text reading "Michelle" is overlaid on each spiral, positioned centrally. The spirals are static with no visible animation changes. The background is a solid yellow color. The image has a pixelated appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Four identical spiral patterns in yellow and pink with the name "Michelle" overlaid in white text on each spiral.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four spirals yellow pink
  • Michelle text spirals
  • yellow background
  • pixelated spirals white text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid yellow background

Visible Text

  • Michelle

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • yellow and pink
  • white text
  • Michelle
  • concentric rings
  • pixelated
  • static
  • solid yellow background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080304130836959725268
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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
icons/37/37d6248dddd728865212bfb7fdac2fa5a22b43dc0185ef523785c654137f8d5f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
37d6248dddd72886
SHA-256
37d6248dddd728865212bfb7fdac2fa5a22b43dc0185ef523785c654137f8d5f
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:42 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.111771

OpenAI category scores

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

Four identical spiral patterns in yellow and pink with the name "Michelle" overlaid in white text on each spiral.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 15:31 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,457 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 631

Review tags

  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • pink
  • white

Composition

  • central text
  • concentric rings

Dense Caption

The image consists of four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral features alternating yellow and pink concentric rings. White text reading "Michelle" is overlaid on each spiral, positioned centrally. The spirals are static with no visible animation changes. The background is a solid yellow color. The image has a pixelated appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Four identical spiral patterns in yellow and pink with the name "Michelle" overlaid in white text on each spiral.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four spirals yellow pink
  • Michelle text spirals
  • yellow background
  • pixelated spirals white text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid yellow background

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital graphics
  • static

Subjects

  • spirals
  • text

Visible Text

  • Michelle

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • yellow and pink
  • white text
  • Michelle
  • concentric rings
  • pixelated
  • static
  • solid yellow background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:44 UTC
Run
56
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
20080304130836959725268
Archive entry
20080304130836959725268.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#20080304130836959725268.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080304130836959725268.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016