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Four identical spiral patterns with alternating green and cyan rings, each containing red pixelated text reading 'heyy' at the center.

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Four identical spiral patterns with alternating green and cyan rings, each containing red pixelated text reading 'heyy' at the center.

Four identical spiral patterns with alternating green and cyan rings, each containing red pixelated text reading 'heyy' at the center. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • centered text in spiral

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating bright green and cyan concentric rings forming a clockwise rotation. At the center of every spiral is the word 'heyy' rendered in red pixelated text with lowercase letters, where the final 'y' has an extended descender. The background behind each spiral matches the outermost ring color (green). All four spirals are visually identical and static.

Description

  • Four identical spiral patterns with alternating green and cyan rings, each containing red pixelated text reading 'heyy' at the center.

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
  • 2008101323401940472797

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four green cyan spirals red heyy text
  • pixel art spiral buddy icon
  • retro digital animation frame
  • heyy pixelated text center

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • heyy

Wordwall

  • four identical spirals
  • alternating green cyan rings
  • red pixelated 'heyy'
  • clockwise rotation
  • lowercase text
  • extended y descender

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008101323401940472797
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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
icons/58/589ff242e02e7d47a3b4e65ebfb41e524c6c748b80da803ecc5a3041a976a46a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
589ff242e02e7d47
SHA-256
589ff242e02e7d47a3b4e65ebfb41e524c6c748b80da803ecc5a3041a976a46a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:31 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.070421

OpenAI category scores

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Four identical spiral patterns with alternating green and cyan rings, each containing red pixelated text reading 'heyy' at the center.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 04:08 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,621 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 642

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • quirky (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • static animation frame (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • cyan
  • red

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • centered text in spiral

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating bright green and cyan concentric rings forming a clockwise rotation. At the center of every spiral is the word 'heyy' rendered in red pixelated text with lowercase letters, where the final 'y' has an extended descender. The background behind each spiral matches the outermost ring color (green). All four spirals are visually identical and static.

Description

  • Four identical spiral patterns with alternating green and cyan rings, each containing red pixelated text reading 'heyy' at the center.

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
  • 2008101323401940472797

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic
  • quirky

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four green cyan spirals red heyy text
  • pixel art spiral buddy icon
  • retro digital animation frame
  • heyy pixelated text center

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • static animation frame

Visible Text

  • heyy

Wordwall

  • four identical spirals
  • alternating green cyan rings
  • red pixelated 'heyy'
  • clockwise rotation
  • lowercase text
  • extended y descender
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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
2008101323401940472797
Archive entry
2008101323401940472797.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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#2008101323401940472797.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008101323401940472797.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016