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Green and white spiral background with black text reading 'baaaa baaaa in a sheep!' arranged in four identical quadrants.

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Green and white spiral background with black text reading 'baaaa baaaa in a sheep!' arranged in four identical quadrants.

Green and white spiral background with black text reading 'baaaa baaaa in a sheep!' arranged in four identical quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes across observations

Composition

  • four identical quadrants
  • central spiral pattern

Dense Caption

Four identical green-and-white spiral backgrounds form a 2x2 grid. Each quadrant contains black pixelated text: 'baaaa' repeated twice, followed by 'in', then 'a', and finally 'sheep!'. The spirals have alternating green and white bands radiating from the center outward. All four quadrants display identical visual content with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Green and white spiral background with black text reading 'baaaa baaaa in a sheep!' arranged in four identical quadrants.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080603180234981284532

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green spiral text baaaa sheep
  • baaaa in a sheep green white
  • pixelated spiral humor text
  • four quadrant spiral text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Visible Text

  • baaaa
  • in
  • a
  • sheep!

Wordwall

  • green spiral background
  • white spiral bands
  • black pixelated text
  • baaaa repeated twice
  • in a sheep!
  • identical quadrants

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080603180234981284532
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 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
icons/8f/8f8532ed23d96f1af3c252cf662969976a9ce1dc25b9f74bda2fcbab2491f065.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC
Archive ID
8f8532ed23d96f1a
SHA-256
8f8532ed23d96f1af3c252cf662969976a9ce1dc25b9f74bda2fcbab2491f065
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:52 UTC
Run
1128
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.070291

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Green and white spiral background with black text reading 'baaaa baaaa in a sheep!' arranged in four identical quadrants.

Reviewed
August 16, 2026 at 16:20 UTC
Run
59
Version
v5
Elapsed
13,497 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 638

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • absurd (mood, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • no visible motion changes across observations (other, 0.80)
  • static image (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes across observations

Colors

  • green
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • four identical quadrants
  • central spiral pattern

Dense Caption

Four identical green-and-white spiral backgrounds form a 2x2 grid. Each quadrant contains black pixelated text: 'baaaa' repeated twice, followed by 'in', then 'a', and finally 'sheep!'. The spirals have alternating green and white bands radiating from the center outward. All four quadrants display identical visual content with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Green and white spiral background with black text reading 'baaaa baaaa in a sheep!' arranged in four identical quadrants.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080603180234981284532

Mood

  • humorous
  • absurd

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green spiral text baaaa sheep
  • baaaa in a sheep green white
  • pixelated spiral humor text
  • four quadrant spiral text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • text-based

Visible Text

  • baaaa
  • in
  • a
  • sheep!

Wordwall

  • green spiral background
  • white spiral bands
  • black pixelated text
  • baaaa repeated twice
  • in a sheep!
  • identical quadrants
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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
20080603180234981284532
Archive entry
20080603180234981284532.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 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#20080603180234981284532.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080603180234981284532.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016