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Four identical pink and black spiral patterns arranged in a with green text reading "Metros" overlaid on each spiral

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Four identical pink and black spiral patterns arranged in a with green text reading "Metros" overlaid on each spiral

Four identical pink and black spiral patterns arranged in a with green text reading "Metros" overlaid on each spiral. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Composition

  • symmetrical
  • identical elements

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating pink and black curved bands forming a clockwise spiral. Green text reading "Metros" is overlaid on each spiral, positioned in the upper-left portion of each spiral. The spirals are identical in size and orientation. The background is black. The image has a pixelated appearance. The spirals are arranged symmetrically with equal spacing between them.

Description

  • Four identical pink and black spiral patterns arranged in a with green text reading "Metros" overlaid on each spiral

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

  • pink black spiral
  • green text metros
  • four spirals
  • pixelated spirals
  • symmetrical spirals
  • text overlaid spirals
  • green metros text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical pink and black spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid with green text reading "Metros" overlaid on each spiral.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • Metros

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • pink and black spirals
  • green text
  • Metros text
  • pixelated
  • symmetrical
  • clockwise spirals
  • identical spirals
  • text overlaid

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20100219062642442259620
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 UTC

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GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.2 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 16:05 UTC
Archive ID
86104a05ffbb6fe1
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:36 UTC
Run
1127
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four identical pink and black spiral patterns arranged in a with green text reading "Metros" overlaid on each spiral

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 17:19 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,793 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 688

Review tags

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  • pink
  • black
  • green

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  • symmetrical
  • identical elements

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating pink and black curved bands forming a clockwise spiral. Green text reading "Metros" is overlaid on each spiral, positioned in the upper-left portion of each spiral. The spirals are identical in size and orientation. The background is black. The image has a pixelated appearance. The spirals are arranged symmetrically with equal spacing between them.

Description

  • Four identical pink and black spiral patterns arranged in a with green text reading "Metros" overlaid on each spiral

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

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  • green text metros
  • four spirals
  • pixelated spirals
  • symmetrical spirals
  • text overlaid spirals
  • green metros text

Objects

  • spirals
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  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid

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  • symmetrical
  • repetitive

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  • text

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  • Metros

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  • pink and black spirals
  • green text
  • Metros text
  • pixelated
  • symmetrical
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:13 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)
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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
20100219062642442259620
Archive entry
20100219062642442259620.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:05 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#20100219062642442259620.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20100219062642442259620.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016