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Four identical spiral patterns in blue and pink with green text 'cait' at the center of each spiral.

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Four identical spiral patterns in blue and pink with green text 'cait' at the center of each spiral.

Four identical spiral patterns in blue and pink with green text 'cait' at the center of each spiral. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Bud…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

No visible animation changes across observations; all spirals remain static with identical blue and pink concentric rings and green 'cait' text.

Composition

  • evenly spaced
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating blue and pink concentric rings. At the center of each spiral, the text 'cait' appears in green. The spirals are static with no visible animation changes across observations. The background is a solid blue color. The text 'cait' is rendered in a pixelated font style. The spirals are evenly spaced and aligned within the grid. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with high-contrast colors.

Description

  • Four identical spiral patterns in blue and pink with green text 'cait' at the center 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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200901181142311916253745

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cait spiral icon
  • blue pink green spiral
  • pixelated cait text
  • retro digital spiral
  • spiral
  • buddy icon cait
  • green text blue pink spiral
  • cait spiral

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no cropping observed
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: cait spiral grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid spiral

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • cait

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • blue and pink concentric rings
  • green text 'cait'
  • pixelated font
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • solid blue background
  • evenly spaced spirals

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901181142311916253745
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6d/6d52b67448b2db2520f7d67325af8fdc62d8b34444add93dec55b783016544b0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC
Archive ID
6d52b67448b2db25
SHA-256
6d52b67448b2db2520f7d67325af8fdc62d8b34444add93dec55b783016544b0
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
0.073327

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.928093onnx/unsafe0.073327onnx/nsfw0.042434onnx/nsfl0.030893
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Four identical spiral patterns in blue and pink with green text 'cait' at the center of each spiral.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 18:55 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,000 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 833

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible motion (other, 0.80)
  • static (other, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • spiral patterns (subject, 0.80)
  • text cait (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static
  • no visible motion

Animation Summary

No visible animation changes across observations; all spirals remain static with identical blue and pink concentric rings and green 'cait' text.

Colors

  • blue
  • pink
  • green

Composition

  • evenly spaced
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating blue and pink concentric rings. At the center of each spiral, the text 'cait' appears in green. The spirals are static with no visible animation changes across observations. The background is a solid blue color. The text 'cait' is rendered in a pixelated font style. The spirals are evenly spaced and aligned within the grid. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with high-contrast colors.

Description

  • Four identical spiral patterns in blue and pink with green text 'cait' at the center 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 topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 200901181142311916253745

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cait spiral icon
  • blue pink green spiral
  • pixelated cait text
  • retro digital spiral
  • spiral
  • buddy icon cait
  • green text blue pink spiral
  • cait spiral

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no cropping observed
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: cait spiral grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid spiral

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • spiral patterns
  • text 'cait'

Visible Text

  • cait

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • blue and pink concentric rings
  • green text 'cait'
  • pixelated font
  • retro digital aesthetic
  • solid blue background
  • evenly spaced spirals
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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
200901181142311916253745
Archive entry
200901181142311916253745.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 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

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