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Four identical pixelated spiral patterns in green and yellow with the word 'Friends' overlaid in black text on each spiral.

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Four identical pixelated spiral patterns in green and yellow with the word 'Friends' overlaid in black text on each spiral.

Four identical pixelated spiral patterns in green and yellow with the word 'Friends' overlaid in black text on each spiral. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • evenly spaced
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating green and yellow concentric rings forming a clockwise spiral. The word 'Friends' is overlaid in black pixelated text on each spiral. The background is a solid yellow color. The spirals are evenly spaced with no visible gaps between them. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital aesthetic typical of early 2000s web graphics.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated spiral patterns in green and yellow with the word 'Friends' overlaid in black text 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green yellow spiral friends
  • pixelated friends spiral
  • retro digital friends icon
  • four spiral friends text

Preprocessing Notes

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

Visible Text

  • Friends

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • green and yellow
  • black text
  • Friends
  • pixelated
  • concentric rings
  • clockwise spiral
  • retro digital
  • solid yellow background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070731054106532450701
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
6d1940269bf0f538
SHA-256
6d1940269bf0f538ba4105401e35f66d8a07cc2fe82af2258b3dff5ed4e2c232
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:51 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.071894

OpenAI category scores

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four identical pixelated spiral patterns in green and yellow with the word 'Friends' overlaid in black text on each spiral.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 16:43 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,333 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 659

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
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  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • spiral patterns (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • yellow
  • black

Composition

  • evenly spaced
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating green and yellow concentric rings forming a clockwise spiral. The word 'Friends' is overlaid in black pixelated text on each spiral. The background is a solid yellow color. The spirals are evenly spaced with no visible gaps between them. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital aesthetic typical of early 2000s web graphics.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated spiral patterns in green and yellow with the word 'Friends' overlaid in black text 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

Mood

  • nostalgic
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green yellow spiral friends
  • pixelated friends spiral
  • retro digital friends icon
  • four spiral friends text

Preprocessing Notes

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • spiral patterns
  • text

Visible Text

  • Friends

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • green and yellow
  • black text
  • Friends
  • pixelated
  • concentric rings
  • clockwise spiral
  • retro digital
  • solid yellow background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:53 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20070731054106532450701
Archive entry
20070731054106532450701.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#20070731054106532450701.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070731054106532450701.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016