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Four identical blue and green spiral patterns arranged in a with black text overlaid on each spiral

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Four identical blue and green spiral patterns arranged in a with black text overlaid on each spiral

Four identical blue and green spiral patterns arranged in a with black text overlaid on each spiral. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • central point spirals

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid; each spiral features alternating blue and green concentric rings with a central point, rendered in a pixelated style; black text overlays each spiral, displaying partial characters 'THERL' and 'ERCL' in a serif font; the background is a solid bright green; the image is static with no visible animation changes; the text appears to be cut off or distorted, suggesting incomplete or damaged rendering.

Description

  • Four identical blue and green spiral patterns arranged in a with black text overlaid on 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue green spirals
  • text
  • pixelated spirals
  • serif font text
  • distorted text
  • bright green background
  • THERL ERCL
  • static image

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical blue and green spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid with black text overlaid on each spiral.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid text

Visible Text

  • THERL
  • ERCL

Wordwall

  • blue and green spirals
  • pixelated style
  • black text
  • serif font
  • partial text 'THERL'
  • partial text 'ERCL'
  • bright green background
  • static image
  • distorted text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807082234261743062851
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/69/69504cdd3e193ccee55ee9d05d2ecc87be6a0e34c166b80894c6d0036e6d5300.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC
Archive ID
69504cdd3e193cce
SHA-256
69504cdd3e193ccee55ee9d05d2ecc87be6a0e34c166b80894c6d0036e6d5300
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:47 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.065119

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Four identical blue and green spiral patterns arranged in a with black text overlaid on each spiral

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 11:19 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,203 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 634

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • serif font (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • green
  • black

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • central point spirals

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid; each spiral features alternating blue and green concentric rings with a central point, rendered in a pixelated style; black text overlays each spiral, displaying partial characters 'THERL' and 'ERCL' in a serif font; the background is a solid bright green; the image is static with no visible animation changes; the text appears to be cut off or distorted, suggesting incomplete or damaged rendering.

Description

  • Four identical blue and green spiral patterns arranged in a with black text overlaid on 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue green spirals
  • text
  • pixelated spirals
  • serif font text
  • distorted text
  • bright green background
  • THERL ERCL
  • static image

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical blue and green spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid with black text overlaid on each spiral.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid text

Style

  • pixelated
  • serif font

Visible Text

  • THERL
  • ERCL

Wordwall

  • blue and green spirals
  • pixelated style
  • black text
  • serif font
  • partial text 'THERL'
  • partial text 'ERCL'
  • bright green background
  • static image
  • distorted 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
200807082234261743062851
Archive entry
200807082234261743062851.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#200807082234261743062851.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807082234261743062851.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016