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Green and white spiral background with black text reading 'waz upp Katie?' in four identical quadrants.

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Green and white spiral background with black text reading 'waz upp Katie?' in four identical quadrants.

Green and white spiral background with black text reading 'waz upp Katie?' in four identical quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no animation detected

Composition

  • four identical quadrants
  • centered text
  • clockwise spiral

Dense Caption

Four identical quadrants each contain a green and white spiral pattern with black text reading 'waz upp Katie?' in a pixelated font. The spiral consists of alternating green and white curved bands forming a clockwise swirl. The text is centered within each spiral, with 'waz' on the top line, 'upp' on the middle line, and 'Katie?' on the bottom line. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Green and white spiral background with black text reading 'waz upp Katie?' in four identical quadrants.

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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 201009150415401918903890

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green spiral text icon
  • waz upp Katie? pixel art
  • four quadrant spiral
  • low-res buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in static image

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

  • spiral pattern

Visible Text

  • waz upp Katie?

Wordwall

  • green and white spiral
  • black text
  • waz upp Katie?
  • pixelated font
  • four quadrants
  • clockwise swirl
  • centered text
  • low-resolution graphics

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201009150415401918903890
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
3.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/45/456576c03e6af2e297d270745be4460b075a534041d536df97fa034b6ee4b3bf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Archive ID
456576c03e6af2e2
SHA-256
456576c03e6af2e297d270745be4460b075a534041d536df97fa034b6ee4b3bf
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:56 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.060499

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Green and white spiral background with black text reading 'waz upp Katie?' in four identical quadrants.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 20:41 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,669 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 822

Review tags

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  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no animation detected

Colors

  • green
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • four identical quadrants
  • centered text
  • clockwise spiral

Dense Caption

Four identical quadrants each contain a green and white spiral pattern with black text reading 'waz upp Katie?' in a pixelated font. The spiral consists of alternating green and white curved bands forming a clockwise swirl. The text is centered within each spiral, with 'waz' on the top line, 'upp' on the middle line, and 'Katie?' on the bottom line. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Green and white spiral background with black text reading 'waz upp Katie?' in four identical quadrants.

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 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 201009150415401918903890

Mood

  • playful
  • casual

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green spiral text icon
  • waz upp Katie? pixel art
  • four quadrant spiral
  • low-res buddy icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
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  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
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Subjects

  • text

Visible Text

  • waz upp Katie?

Wordwall

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  • black text
  • waz upp Katie?
  • pixelated font
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  • clockwise swirl
  • centered text
  • low-resolution graphics
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 23:07 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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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
201009150415401918903890
Archive entry
201009150415401918903890.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#201009150415401918903890.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201009150415401918903890.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016