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Four identical spiral patterns with alternating green and blue colors, each labeled 'spiny' in black text at top and bottom.

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Four identical spiral patterns with alternating green and blue colors, each labeled 'spiny' in black text at top and bottom.

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • centered text on spirals

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating bright green and cyan-blue concentric rings forming a clockwise rotation. Black pixelated text reading 'spiny' appears above and below each spiral, positioned horizontally centered relative to the pattern's axis. The background is solid bright green surrounding all four spirals. All elements maintain consistent size, color, and positioning across all visible frames.

Description

  • Four identical spiral patterns with alternating green and blue colors, each labeled 'spiny' in black text at top and 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080102184103276223079

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • spiny spiral icon
  • green blue pixel spirals
  • four spiny text icons
  • pixelated green blue spirals

Preprocessing Notes

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

Visible Text

  • spiny

Wordwall

  • four identical spirals
  • green and blue concentric rings
  • clockwise rotation
  • black pixelated text
  • 'spiny' label top/bottom
  • solid green background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080102184103276223079
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 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 15:08 UTC
Archive ID
7a9c795957a04573
SHA-256
7a9c795957a04573c8d5b1d04b114a9832b5bc6e16990fbc73127b5caccd4b02
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:09 UTC
Run
1066
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094147

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Four identical spiral patterns with alternating green and blue colors, each labeled 'spiny' in black text at top and bottom.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 07:10 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,788 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 678

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • hypnotic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • cyan-blue
  • black

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • centered text on spirals

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating bright green and cyan-blue concentric rings forming a clockwise rotation. Black pixelated text reading 'spiny' appears above and below each spiral, positioned horizontally centered relative to the pattern's axis. The background is solid bright green surrounding all four spirals. All elements maintain consistent size, color, and positioning across all visible frames.

Description

  • Four identical spiral patterns with alternating green and blue colors, each labeled 'spiny' in black text at top and 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080102184103276223079

Mood

  • hypnotic
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • spiny spiral icon
  • green blue pixel spirals
  • four spiny text icons
  • pixelated green blue spirals

Preprocessing Notes

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • spiny

Wordwall

  • four identical spirals
  • green and blue concentric rings
  • clockwise rotation
  • black pixelated text
  • 'spiny' label top/bottom
  • solid green 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
20080102184103276223079
Archive entry
20080102184103276223079.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 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#20080102184103276223079.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080102184103276223079.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016