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Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text 'gabby' in white pixelated font at the center

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Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text 'gabby' in white pixelated font at the center

Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text 'gabby' in white pixelated font at the center. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered text
  • even spacing

Dense Caption

The image consists of four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral features alternating red and black concentric rings forming a clockwise spiral. At the center of each spiral, the text 'gabby' is displayed in white pixelated font. The background of the entire image is solid red. The spirals are evenly spaced with a dark red square separating them. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with high contrast between red and black elements.

Description

  • Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text 'gabby' in white pixelated font at the 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

  • gabby spiral icon
  • red black spiral text
  • pixel art spiral
  • gabby spiral
  • retro digital spiral
  • white text spiral
  • four spiral
  • gabby pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid, each containing the text 'gabby' in white pixelated font at the center.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four spiral grid
  • quarantined retrieval: gabby 2x2 spiral
  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art spiral grid

Visible Text

  • gabby

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • red and black spiral
  • white text
  • gabby
  • pixelated font
  • retro digital
  • solid red background
  • concentric rings
  • clockwise spiral

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070826171634902292329
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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/8a/8aa9d5269176a405d600f67c41c84149e3310643e01ea340ea31a03a4452cf9f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
8aa9d5269176a405
SHA-256
8aa9d5269176a405d600f67c41c84149e3310643e01ea340ea31a03a4452cf9f
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:40 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094516

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

Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text 'gabby' in white pixelated font at the center

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 05:49 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,391 ms
Tokens
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  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • hypnotic (mood, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white

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  • symmetrical
  • centered text
  • even spacing

Dense Caption

The image consists of four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral features alternating red and black concentric rings forming a clockwise spiral. At the center of each spiral, the text 'gabby' is displayed in white pixelated font. The background of the entire image is solid red. The spirals are evenly spaced with a dark red square separating them. The image has a retro digital aesthetic with high contrast between red and black elements.

Description

  • Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text 'gabby' in white pixelated font at the 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

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  • energetic
  • retro

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  • red black spiral text
  • pixel art spiral
  • gabby spiral
  • retro digital spiral
  • white text spiral
  • four spiral
  • gabby pixel art

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  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
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  • quarantined retrieval: pixel art spiral grid

Style

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  • retro digital
  • high contrast

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  • spirals
  • text

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  • gabby

Wordwall

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  • red and black spiral
  • white text
  • gabby
  • pixelated font
  • retro digital
  • solid red background
  • concentric rings
  • clockwise spiral
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:13 UTC
Run
52
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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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
20070826171634902292329
Archive entry
20070826171634902292329.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#20070826171634902292329.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070826171634902292329.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016