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

Four red and blue spiral patterns arranged in a on a solid background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to Mid-2…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • quadrant arrangement
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

Four spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating red and blue concentric rings forming a clockwise rotation. The spirals are positioned in the four quadrants of the square frame. The background is a solid color matching the spiral ring colors. The spirals are identical in size and rotation direction. The image has a pixelated appearance with visible dithering between the red and blue colors.

Description

  • Four red and blue spiral patterns arranged in a on a solid 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red blue spiral
  • spiral pattern
  • pixelated spiral icon
  • dithered spiral design

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four red and blue spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 spiral pattern
  • quarantined retrieval: red blue spiral grid

Wordwall

  • red and blue spirals
  • concentric rings
  • clockwise rotation
  • pixelated
  • dithering
  • solid background
  • identical spirals
  • quadrant arrangement

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081029134432643731583
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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 15:41 UTC
Archive ID
67efa7410e137a25
SHA-256
67efa7410e137a2587d88f03620ae0918bad0e69bd562cd6d54ac0e19c3a8b32
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:46 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076982

OpenAI category scores

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

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 06:04 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,766 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 625

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
  • geometric (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • blue

Composition

  • quadrant arrangement
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

Four spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating red and blue concentric rings forming a clockwise rotation. The spirals are positioned in the four quadrants of the square frame. The background is a solid color matching the spiral ring colors. The spirals are identical in size and rotation direction. The image has a pixelated appearance with visible dithering between the red and blue colors.

Description

  • Four red and blue spiral patterns arranged in a on a solid 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red blue spiral
  • spiral pattern
  • pixelated spiral icon
  • dithered spiral design

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four red and blue spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 spiral pattern
  • quarantined retrieval: red blue spiral grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • dithered
  • geometric

Wordwall

  • red and blue spirals
  • concentric rings
  • clockwise rotation
  • pixelated
  • dithering
  • solid background
  • identical spirals
  • quadrant arrangement
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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
20081029134432643731583
Archive entry
20081029134432643731583.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:41 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#20081029134432643731583.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081029134432643731583.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016