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Four blue and black spiral patterns arranged in a on a solid blue background

Four blue and black spiral patterns arranged in a on a solid blue background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s t…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • central solid area
  • repeating pattern

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical spirals, each composed of alternating blue and black segments. The spirals are positioned at the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners of the frame. Each spiral has a clockwise rotation with multiple concentric loops. The central area between the spirals is filled with solid blue color matching the outer background. All four spirals maintain consistent size, shape, and orientation throughout the visible content.

Description

  • Four blue and black spiral patterns arranged in a on a solid blue 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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080214183641409638604

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four blue black spirals
  • clockwise spiral
  • blue background geometric pattern
  • symmetrical spiral design

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four blue and black spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid blue background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: clockwise spiral grid

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • blue black spiral
  • clockwise rotation
  • concentric loops
  • solid blue background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080214183641409638604
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.1 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 15:14 UTC
Archive ID
46f3d98532eab003
SHA-256
46f3d98532eab00351f8cf1d22ba54468a724771c426a0d80e057dadb336352b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:57 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.072647

OpenAI category scores

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Four blue and black spiral patterns arranged in a on a solid blue background

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 21:55 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,359 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 607

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • calming (mood, 0.80)
  • hypnotic (mood, 0.80)
  • geometric (style, 0.80)
  • minimalist (style, 0.80)
  • symmetrical (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • black

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • central solid area
  • repeating pattern

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical spirals, each composed of alternating blue and black segments. The spirals are positioned at the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners of the frame. Each spiral has a clockwise rotation with multiple concentric loops. The central area between the spirals is filled with solid blue color matching the outer background. All four spirals maintain consistent size, shape, and orientation throughout the visible content.

Description

  • Four blue and black spiral patterns arranged in a on a solid blue 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.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080214183641409638604

Mood

  • calming
  • hypnotic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four blue black spirals
  • clockwise spiral
  • blue background geometric pattern
  • symmetrical spiral design

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four blue and black spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid blue background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: clockwise spiral grid

Style

  • geometric
  • symmetrical
  • minimalist

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • blue black spiral
  • clockwise rotation
  • concentric loops
  • solid blue background
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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
20080214183641409638604
Archive entry
20080214183641409638604.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 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

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