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Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text 'swirly' at the top and 'swirl' at the bottom

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Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text 'swirly' at the top and 'swirl' at the bottom

Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text 'swirly' at the top and 'swirl' at the bottom. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • identical elements

Dense Caption

Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral features a red outer ring, black inner ring, and red center. White pixelated text 'swirly' appears at the top of each spiral, and white pixelated text 'swirl' appears at the bottom of each spiral. The spirals are identical across all four positions. The background is black. The image uses a limited color palette of red, black, and white. The text is rendered in a pixelated font. The spirals have a clockwise rotation. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text 'swirly' at the top and 'swirl' at the bottom

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

  • red black spiral
  • swirly swirl text
  • pixelated spiral
  • spiral text
  • clockwise spiral text
  • identical spiral patterns
  • retro pixelated text
  • black background spiral

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid, each containing the text 'swirly' at the top and 'swirl' at the bottom.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 spiral text
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated spiral grid

Visible Text

  • swirly
  • swirl

Wordwall

  • red and black spiral
  • white pixelated text
  • swirly text
  • swirl text
  • clockwise spiral
  • identical spirals
  • limited color palette
  • pixelated font
  • black background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707271001079514968
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 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
icons/72/72cce873142c28fd83aafbc5f80fdf2a06005a851f92687bcd225e99296a0bf9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC
Archive ID
72cce873142c28fd
SHA-256
72cce873142c28fd83aafbc5f80fdf2a06005a851f92687bcd225e99296a0bf9
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:57 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073412

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

Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text 'swirly' at the top and 'swirl' at the bottom

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 15:09 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,327 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,103, response 728

Review tags

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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • red
  • black
  • white

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  • symmetrical
  • identical elements

Dense Caption

Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral features a red outer ring, black inner ring, and red center. White pixelated text 'swirly' appears at the top of each spiral, and white pixelated text 'swirl' appears at the bottom of each spiral. The spirals are identical across all four positions. The background is black. The image uses a limited color palette of red, black, and white. The text is rendered in a pixelated font. The spirals have a clockwise rotation. The image is static with no visible animation changes.

Description

  • Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text 'swirly' at the top and 'swirl' at the bottom

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

  • hypnotic
  • repetitive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red black spiral
  • swirly swirl text
  • pixelated spiral
  • spiral text
  • clockwise spiral text
  • identical spiral patterns
  • retro pixelated text
  • black background spiral

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
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  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated spiral grid

Style

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  • retro
  • minimalist

Subjects

  • spiral

Visible Text

  • swirly
  • swirl

Wordwall

  • red and black spiral
  • white pixelated text
  • swirly text
  • swirl text
  • clockwise spiral
  • identical spirals
  • limited color palette
  • pixelated font
  • black background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:27 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)
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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
200707271001079514968
Archive entry
200707271001079514968.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 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#200707271001079514968.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707271001079514968.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016