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Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text FLOCK in white pixelated letters

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Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text FLOCK in white pixelated letters

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Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered text
  • concentric spirals

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating red and black concentric rings forming a clockwise spiral. The text FLOCK appears in white pixelated letters at the center of each spiral. The spirals are positioned in the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right quadrants of the image. The background is black. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text FLOCK in white pixelated letters

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red black spiral FLOCK
  • FLOCK spiral icon
  • pixelated FLOCK spirals
  • four spiral FLOCK
  • red spiral text
  • black background FLOCK
  • spiral
  • FLOCK pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid, each containing the text FLOCK in white pixelated letters.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 spiral grid

Visible Text

  • FLOCK

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • red and black
  • clockwise spirals
  • FLOCK text
  • pixelated letters
  • black background
  • low-resolution
  • concentric rings
  • white text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090218151329878402014
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.7 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 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
634c40c6b35cf3fa
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:41 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084495

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Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text FLOCK in white pixelated letters

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 23:36 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,774 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 693

Review tags

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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered text
  • concentric spirals

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating red and black concentric rings forming a clockwise spiral. The text FLOCK appears in white pixelated letters at the center of each spiral. The spirals are positioned in the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right quadrants of the image. The background is black. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text FLOCK in white pixelated letters

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red black spiral FLOCK
  • FLOCK spiral icon
  • pixelated FLOCK spirals
  • four spiral FLOCK
  • red spiral text
  • black background FLOCK
  • spiral
  • FLOCK pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

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

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • repetitive pattern

Visible Text

  • FLOCK

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • red and black
  • clockwise spirals
  • FLOCK text
  • pixelated letters
  • black background
  • low-resolution
  • concentric rings
  • white text
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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
20090218151329878402014
Archive entry
20090218151329878402014.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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#20090218151329878402014.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090218151329878402014.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016