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Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a with yellow text reading 'freewind' above each spiral on a black background

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Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a with yellow text reading 'freewind' above each spiral on a black background

Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a with yellow text reading 'freewind' above each spiral on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inte…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered spirals

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating red and black concentric rings forming a clockwise spiral. Yellow text reading 'freewind' appears above each spiral. The background is solid black. The spirals are identical in size and position within their respective grid cells. The image has a pixelated appearance with no visible animation or motion changes.

Description

  • Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a with yellow text reading 'freewind' above each spiral on a black 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 black spiral freewind
  • freewind spiral
  • yellow text red spiral
  • spiral freewind

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid with yellow text reading 'freewind' above each spiral on a black background.
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: spiral grid freewind
  • quarantined retrieval: freewind spiral grid

Visible Text

  • freewind

Wordwall

  • red and black spirals
  • yellow text
  • freewind
  • solid black background
  • pixelated
  • identical spirals
  • concentric rings
  • clockwise spiral

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100726003254436707222
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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
icons/6e/6e98e837363467f30d78bd120ce3e751eb92210c08c9eb0f2651c4e91bdba499.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 UTC
Archive ID
6e98e837363467f3
SHA-256
6e98e837363467f30d78bd120ce3e751eb92210c08c9eb0f2651c4e91bdba499
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 20:11 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000069

OpenAI category scores

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Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 9, 2026 at 10:05 UTC
Run
1278
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001568

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence/graphic0.001568falseviolence0.001293falseself-harm0.000546falseself-harm/intent0.000222falseself-harm/instructions0.000214falsesexual0.000091falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:53 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.097944

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.925442onnx/unsafe0.097944onnx/nsfw0.050949onnx/nsfl0.046995
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a with yellow text reading 'freewind' above each spiral on a black background

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 20:08 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,222 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 675

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • hypnotic (mood, 0.80)
  • graphic (style, 0.80)
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  • spirals (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • yellow

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered spirals

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating red and black concentric rings forming a clockwise spiral. Yellow text reading 'freewind' appears above each spiral. The background is solid black. The spirals are identical in size and position within their respective grid cells. The image has a pixelated appearance with no visible animation or motion changes.

Description

  • Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a with yellow text reading 'freewind' above each spiral on a black 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

Mood

  • hypnotic
  • repetitive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red black spiral freewind
  • freewind spiral
  • yellow text red spiral
  • spiral freewind

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
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Style

  • pixelated
  • graphic
  • repetitive

Subjects

  • spirals

Visible Text

  • freewind

Wordwall

  • red and black spirals
  • yellow text
  • freewind
  • solid black background
  • pixelated
  • identical spirals
  • concentric rings
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:59 UTC
Run
61
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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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
20100726003254436707222
Archive entry
20100726003254436707222.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:07 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#20100726003254436707222.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100726003254436707222.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016