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Three orange spiral-shaped objects with white stripes rotate clockwise on a gray pixelated background.

Three orange spiral-shaped objects with white stripes rotate clockwise on a gray pixelated background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared B…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • continuous clockwise rotation

Animation Summary

  • Three identical orange spiral objects with white stripes rotate clockwise on a gray pixelated background.

Composition

  • three objects
  • corner placement
  • uniform background

Dense Caption

Three identical orange spiral-shaped objects with white horizontal stripes rotate clockwise on a gray pixelated background. Each spiral has a consistent pattern of alternating orange and white segments. The background consists of a uniform gray texture with scattered black and white pixels. The spirals are positioned in the top-left, top-right, and bottom-left corners of the frame. The animation shows continuous clockwise rotation of all three spirals without any other visible changes.

Description

  • Three orange spiral-shaped objects with white stripes rotate clockwise on a gray pixelated 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20090222134233234637810
  • 200902221343421835257937

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange spiral objects
  • white striped spirals
  • gray pixelated background
  • clockwise rotation
  • three spiral objects
  • repetitive animation
  • spiral rotation
  • pixelated background animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte visible
  • no cropping observed

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

Wordwall

  • orange spirals
  • white stripes
  • gray pixelated background
  • clockwise rotation
  • three objects
  • uniform texture
  • scattered black pixels
  • consistent pattern
  • top-left position
  • top-right position
  • bottom-left position

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090222134233234637810
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200902221343421835257937
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/72/72c102ad47a1a8522a446843ec6e4a951c27ffd7cde6d68fd0d6ab4ac3a7056c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 UTC
Archive ID
72c102ad47a1a852
SHA-256
72c102ad47a1a8522a446843ec6e4a951c27ffd7cde6d68fd0d6ab4ac3a7056c
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Assessed
August 12, 2026 at 18:40 UTC
Run
1287
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000698

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July 23, 2026 at 16:57 UTC
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Three orange spiral-shaped objects with white stripes rotate clockwise on a gray pixelated background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 00:14 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,547 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,154, response 791

Review tags

  • rotating clockwise (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • continuous clockwise rotation (other, 0.80)
  • animated (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • spiral objects (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • rotating clockwise

Animation

  • continuous clockwise rotation

Animation Summary

  • Three identical orange spiral objects with white stripes rotate clockwise on a gray pixelated background.

Colors

  • orange
  • white
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • three objects
  • corner placement
  • uniform background

Dense Caption

Three identical orange spiral-shaped objects with white horizontal stripes rotate clockwise on a gray pixelated background. Each spiral has a consistent pattern of alternating orange and white segments. The background consists of a uniform gray texture with scattered black and white pixels. The spirals are positioned in the top-left, top-right, and bottom-left corners of the frame. The animation shows continuous clockwise rotation of all three spirals without any other visible changes.

Description

  • Three orange spiral-shaped objects with white stripes rotate clockwise on a gray pixelated 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • 20090222134233234637810
  • 200902221343421835257937

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • repetitive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange spiral objects
  • white striped spirals
  • gray pixelated background
  • clockwise rotation
  • three spiral objects
  • repetitive animation
  • spiral rotation
  • pixelated background animation

Objects

  • spiral objects

Preprocessing Notes

  • no upscaling detected
  • no matte visible
  • no cropping observed

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • animated
  • repetitive

Subjects

  • spiral objects

Wordwall

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  • white stripes
  • gray pixelated background
  • clockwise rotation
  • three objects
  • uniform texture
  • scattered black pixels
  • consistent pattern
  • top-left position
  • top-right position
  • bottom-left position
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Full source records (2)

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
20090222134233234637810
Archive entry
20090222134233234637810.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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#20090222134233234637810.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090222134233234637810.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200902221343421835257937
Archive entry
200902221343421835257937.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:52 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#200902221343421835257937.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200902221343421835257937.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016