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Four identical blue and black spiral patterns arranged in a with white text reading RACECAR overlaid on each spiral

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Four identical blue and black spiral patterns arranged in a with white text reading RACECAR overlaid on each spiral

Four identical blue and black spiral patterns arranged in a with white text reading RACECAR overlaid on each spiral. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Source terms

Composition

  • evenly spaced
  • symmetrical
  • text overlaid on patterns

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid; each spiral consists of alternating blue and black concentric rings forming a clockwise spiral; white text reading RACECAR is overlaid on each spiral; the text is rendered in a pixelated, blocky font; the background is solid black; the spirals are evenly spaced with a black vertical and horizontal gap between them; the blue color is a bright, saturated cyan-blue; the black rings are solid and uniform in width; the text is horizontally centered on each spiral; the spirals are identical in size and rotation; the image has a low-resolution, pixelated appearance typical of early digital graphics.

Description

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue spiral RACECAR
  • RACECAR spiral
  • pixelated RACECAR spirals
  • cyan-blue spiral text
  • spiral
  • RACECAR text blue spirals
  • low-resolution RACECAR spirals
  • blocky RACECAR text spirals

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical blue and black spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid with white text reading RACECAR overlaid on each spiral.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 spiral grid
  • quarantined retrieval: RACECAR spiral grid

Visible Text

  • RACECAR

Wordwall

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  • blue and black
  • RACECAR text
  • pixelated font
  • cyan-blue
  • solid black background
  • concentric rings
  • clockwise spiral
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  • identical spirals
  • blocky text
  • low-resolution
  • horizontal centering
  • uniform ring width
  • solid black gap
  • bright blue
  • text overlaid
  • pixelated appearance
  • 2007-2016 era

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080304064635451803299
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/91/919c6555bf81c96d3ab309c007d751be96d9709ea4ccde2003895126759df7de.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC
Archive ID
919c6555bf81c96d
SHA-256
919c6555bf81c96d3ab309c007d751be96d9709ea4ccde2003895126759df7de
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:56 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082441

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

Four identical blue and black spiral patterns arranged in a with white text reading RACECAR overlaid on each spiral

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 15:29 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,449 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 806

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  • white

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  • evenly spaced
  • symmetrical
  • text overlaid on patterns

Dense Caption

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Description

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

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  • pixelated RACECAR spirals
  • cyan-blue spiral text
  • spiral
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  • low-resolution RACECAR spirals
  • blocky RACECAR text spirals

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  • blue and black
  • RACECAR text
  • pixelated font
  • cyan-blue
  • solid black background
  • concentric rings
  • clockwise spiral
  • evenly spaced
  • identical spirals
  • blocky text
  • low-resolution
  • horizontal centering
  • uniform ring width
  • solid black gap
  • bright blue
  • text overlaid
  • pixelated appearance
  • 2007-2016 era
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 04:43 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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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
20080304064635451803299
Archive entry
20080304064635451803299.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#20080304064635451803299.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080304064635451803299.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016