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Four identical spiral patterns in cyan and purple with 'gft jacob' text in black pixelated font at top-left of each spiral.

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Four identical spiral patterns in cyan and purple with 'gft jacob' text in black pixelated font at top-left of each spiral.

Four identical spiral patterns in cyan and purple with 'gft jacob' text in black pixelated font at top-left of each spiral. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Composition

  • four identical spirals
  • central purple cross gap
  • text top-left of each spiral

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating cyan and purple concentric rings forming a clockwise swirl. Black pixelated text 'gft' appears above 'jacob' in the top-left portion of each spiral. The background is solid cyan. The spirals are evenly spaced with a purple cross-shaped gap between them. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Four identical spiral patterns in cyan and purple with 'gft jacob' text in black pixelated font at top-left of 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan purple spiral
  • gft jacob text
  • pixel art spiral
  • four identical spirals
  • retro digital art
  • spiral
  • black pixelated text
  • solid cyan background

Preprocessing Notes

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

Visible Text

  • gft
  • jacob

Wordwall

  • cyan and purple spirals
  • four identical spirals
  • black pixelated text
  • gft jacob text
  • clockwise swirl
  • retro digital art
  • solid cyan background
  • purple cross gap
  • low-resolution pixelation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201110201547531366534869
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 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
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC
Archive ID
65b141d5238a8087
SHA-256
65b141d5238a808710b5805b9ae6519d434e4fdd98670fafa6e0d0b15e509296
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:44 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.071459

OpenAI category scores

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Four identical spiral patterns in cyan and purple with 'gft jacob' text in black pixelated font at top-left of each spiral.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 01:05 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,248 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,115, response 695

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • purple
  • black

Composition

  • four identical spirals
  • central purple cross gap
  • text top-left of each spiral

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating cyan and purple concentric rings forming a clockwise swirl. Black pixelated text 'gft' appears above 'jacob' in the top-left portion of each spiral. The background is solid cyan. The spirals are evenly spaced with a purple cross-shaped gap between them. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Four identical spiral patterns in cyan and purple with 'gft jacob' text in black pixelated font at top-left of 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: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan purple spiral
  • gft jacob text
  • pixel art spiral
  • four identical spirals
  • retro digital art
  • spiral
  • black pixelated text
  • solid cyan background

Preprocessing Notes

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

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution

Visible Text

  • gft
  • jacob

Wordwall

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  • four identical spirals
  • black pixelated text
  • gft jacob text
  • clockwise swirl
  • retro digital art
  • solid cyan background
  • purple cross gap
  • low-resolution pixelation
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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
201110201547531366534869
Archive entry
201110201547531366534869.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 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#201110201547531366534869.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201110201547531366534869.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016