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Four identical black-and-white spiral patterns arranged in a , each with blue text 'boby' above it

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Four identical black-and-white spiral patterns arranged in a , each with blue text 'boby' above it

Four identical black-and-white spiral patterns arranged in a , each with blue text 'boby' above it. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • identical elements

Dense Caption

Four identical black-and-white spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating black and white curved bands forming a clockwise spiral. Above each spiral, blue text reads 'boby' in a pixelated font. The spirals are identical in size and orientation. The background is solid black between the spirals. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Four identical black-and-white spiral patterns arranged in a , each with blue text 'boby' above it

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

  • boby spirals
  • blue text spirals
  • pixelated spirals
  • spirals
  • boby text
  • black white spirals
  • low resolution spirals
  • identical spirals

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical black-and-white spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with blue text 'boby' above it.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid spirals

Visible Text

  • boby

Wordwall

  • black-and-white spirals
  • blue text
  • boby
  • pixelated font
  • clockwise spirals
  • identical spirals
  • solid black background
  • low-resolution graphics

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201005202229181440336558
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/84/845f2207ce2f562ded2a3b351112f256fb9c2439eae63e240bf5a7e6697d864b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC
Archive ID
845f2207ce2f562d
SHA-256
845f2207ce2f562ded2a3b351112f256fb9c2439eae63e240bf5a7e6697d864b
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:31 UTC
Run
1115
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087271

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four identical black-and-white spiral patterns arranged in a , each with blue text 'boby' above it

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,082 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 680

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • blue

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • identical elements

Dense Caption

Four identical black-and-white spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating black and white curved bands forming a clockwise spiral. Above each spiral, blue text reads 'boby' in a pixelated font. The spirals are identical in size and orientation. The background is solid black between the spirals. The image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Four identical black-and-white spiral patterns arranged in a , each with blue text 'boby' above it

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

  • boby spirals
  • blue text spirals
  • pixelated spirals
  • spirals
  • boby text
  • black white spirals
  • low resolution spirals
  • identical spirals

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical black-and-white spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with blue text 'boby' above it.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid spirals

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • spirals
  • text

Visible Text

  • boby

Wordwall

  • black-and-white spirals
  • blue text
  • boby
  • pixelated font
  • clockwise spirals
  • identical spirals
  • solid black background
  • low-resolution graphics
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:43 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
Raw JSON
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
201005202229181440336558
Archive entry
201005202229181440336558.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 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#201005202229181440336558.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201005202229181440336558.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016