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Four identical spiral patterns with alternating cyan and magenta rings, each containing yellow text reading 'pottsy' above 'bohh'.

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Four identical spiral patterns with alternating cyan and magenta rings, each containing yellow text reading 'pottsy' above 'bohh'.

Four identical spiral patterns with alternating cyan and magenta rings, each containing yellow text reading 'pottsy' above 'bohh'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • central spiral focus

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating cyan and magenta concentric rings forming a clockwise swirl. Overlaid on each spiral is yellow pixelated text: the word 'pottsy' positioned at the top portion of the spiral, and the word 'bohh' centered below it. The background surrounding all spirals is solid cyan. All four instances are visually identical with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical spiral patterns with alternating cyan and magenta rings, each containing yellow text reading 'pottsy' above 'bohh'.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200905250047291726347362

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pottsy bohh spiral cyan magenta
  • four identical spirals yellow text
  • cyan background magenta rings pixelated
  • retro digital spiral icon

Preprocessing Notes

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

Visible Text

  • pottsy
  • bohh

Wordwall

  • four identical spirals
  • cyan magenta alternating rings
  • yellow pixelated text
  • 'pottsy' above 'bohh'
  • solid cyan background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200905250047291726347362
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC

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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
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC
Archive ID
6f7b893b4e6c3bf4
SHA-256
6f7b893b4e6c3bf4be50b37b4ef2d14182dd24657a93d44bc219085e717966f8
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:53 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081347

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Four identical spiral patterns with alternating cyan and magenta rings, each containing yellow text reading 'pottsy' above 'bohh'.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 10:37 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,118 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 657

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • vibrant (mood, 0.80)
  • high contrast (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • magenta
  • yellow

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • central spiral focus

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating cyan and magenta concentric rings forming a clockwise swirl. Overlaid on each spiral is yellow pixelated text: the word 'pottsy' positioned at the top portion of the spiral, and the word 'bohh' centered below it. The background surrounding all spirals is solid cyan. All four instances are visually identical with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical spiral patterns with alternating cyan and magenta rings, each containing yellow text reading 'pottsy' above 'bohh'.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200905250047291726347362

Mood

  • playful
  • vibrant
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pottsy bohh spiral cyan magenta
  • four identical spirals yellow text
  • cyan background magenta rings pixelated
  • retro digital spiral icon

Preprocessing Notes

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • high-contrast

Visible Text

  • pottsy
  • bohh

Wordwall

  • four identical spirals
  • cyan magenta alternating rings
  • yellow pixelated text
  • 'pottsy' above 'bohh'
  • solid cyan background
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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
200905250047291726347362
Archive entry
200905250047291726347362.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 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#200905250047291726347362.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200905250047291726347362.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016