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Four identical red and black spiral patterns with blue text overlays arranged in a on a black background

Four identical red and black spiral patterns with blue text overlays arranged in a on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Share…

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Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • identical quadrants

Dense Caption

Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid on a black background. Each spiral features blue text: 'IDC' at the top, 'WAT U' below it, 'THINK' beneath that, and 'AEVE <3333AEVE <3333' at the bottom. The spirals have a pixelated appearance with alternating red and black bands forming the spiral shape. The text is rendered in a blocky, pixelated font typical of early digital graphics. The overall composition is symmetrical with identical elements in each quadrant.

Description

  • Four identical red and black spiral patterns with blue text overlays arranged in a on a black 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red black spiral blue text
  • IDC WAT U THINK AEVE
  • pixelated text
  • spiral text
  • blue text red spiral
  • AEVE <3333
  • WAT U THINK
  • IDC spiral

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical red and black spiral patterns with blue text overlays arranged in a 2x2 grid on a black background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: IDC spiral grid
  • quarantined retrieval: spiral text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid pixelated text

Visible Text

  • IDC
  • WAT U
  • THINK
  • AEVE <3333AEVE <3333

Wordwall

  • red and black spiral
  • blue text
  • IDC
  • WAT U
  • THINK
  • AEVE <3333AEVE <3333
  • pixelated font
  • symmetrical
  • black background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008022914192079207767
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.4 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 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
83086832afd96ae5
SHA-256
83086832afd96ae58bcc1f85759e268fded7c3fbd8754c57ec80b45bdd8204cc
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:28 UTC
Run
1109
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083050

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

Four identical red and black spiral patterns with blue text overlays arranged in a on a black background

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 13:49 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,843 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,103, response 733

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  • red
  • black
  • blue

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • identical quadrants

Dense Caption

Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid on a black background. Each spiral features blue text: 'IDC' at the top, 'WAT U' below it, 'THINK' beneath that, and 'AEVE <3333AEVE <3333' at the bottom. The spirals have a pixelated appearance with alternating red and black bands forming the spiral shape. The text is rendered in a blocky, pixelated font typical of early digital graphics. The overall composition is symmetrical with identical elements in each quadrant.

Description

  • Four identical red and black spiral patterns with blue text overlays arranged in a on a black 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

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  • IDC WAT U THINK AEVE
  • pixelated text
  • spiral text
  • blue text red spiral
  • AEVE <3333
  • WAT U THINK
  • IDC spiral

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  • WAT U
  • THINK
  • AEVE <3333AEVE <3333

Wordwall

  • red and black spiral
  • blue text
  • IDC
  • WAT U
  • THINK
  • AEVE <3333AEVE <3333
  • pixelated font
  • symmetrical
  • black background
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:27 UTC
Run
56
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)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
2008022914192079207767
Archive entry
2008022914192079207767.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#2008022914192079207767.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008022914192079207767.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016