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Four identical display a green and blue spiral background with pink text 'melena' and '<3' at top and center

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Four identical display a green and blue spiral background with pink text 'melena' and '<3' at top and center

Four identical display a green and blue spiral background with pink text 'melena' and '<3' at top and center. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons S…

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Source terms

Composition

  • four identical
  • spiral background
  • text at top and center

Dense Caption

The image consists of four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel features a spiral background with alternating green and blue concentric rings. At the top of each panel, the text 'melena' appears in pink, and below it, the text '<3' also appears in pink. The spiral pattern is consistent across all four panels, with no visible differences between them. The background is a solid bright green color surrounding the spiral. The text is rendered in a pixelated font style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Four identical display a green and blue spiral background with pink text 'melena' and '<3' at top and center

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

  • melena spiral
  • green blue spiral
  • pink melena text
  • four spiral

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical panels display a green and blue spiral background with pink text 'melena' and '<3' at top and center.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: four identical panels
  • quarantined style: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: four identical panels
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel spiral

Visible Text

  • melena
  • <3

Wordwall

  • green and blue spiral background
  • pink 'melena' text
  • pink '<3' text
  • four identical
  • pixelated font
  • bright green background
  • concentric rings

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904141010101087213147
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/81/8160f2465c3d5cd38791dd05f81b47593494efaec89e349fcb3915acd57c9972.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
8160f2465c3d5cd3
SHA-256
8160f2465c3d5cd38791dd05f81b47593494efaec89e349fcb3915acd57c9972
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:25 UTC
Run
1101
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091490

OpenAI category scores

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Four identical display a green and blue spiral background with pink text 'melena' and '<3' at top and center

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 06:40 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,086 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 667

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • bright green (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • digital graphics (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • blue
  • pink
  • bright green

Composition

  • four identical
  • spiral background
  • text at top and center

Dense Caption

The image consists of four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel features a spiral background with alternating green and blue concentric rings. At the top of each panel, the text 'melena' appears in pink, and below it, the text '<3' also appears in pink. The spiral pattern is consistent across all four panels, with no visible differences between them. The background is a solid bright green color surrounding the spiral. The text is rendered in a pixelated font style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Four identical display a green and blue spiral background with pink text 'melena' and '<3' at top and center

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

  • melena spiral
  • green blue spiral
  • pink melena text
  • four spiral

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical panels display a green and blue spiral background with pink text 'melena' and '<3' at top and center.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: four identical panels
  • quarantined style: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: four identical panels
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel spiral

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital graphics

Visible Text

  • melena
  • <3

Wordwall

  • green and blue spiral background
  • pink 'melena' text
  • pink '<3' text
  • four identical
  • pixelated font
  • bright green background
  • concentric rings
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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
200904141010101087213147
Archive entry
200904141010101087213147.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#200904141010101087213147.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904141010101087213147.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016