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Four pink and black spiral patterns arranged in a with repeating text overlay

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Four pink and black spiral patterns arranged in a with repeating text overlay

Four pink and black spiral patterns arranged in a with repeating text overlay. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • central negative space

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical spirals, each composed of alternating pink and black stripes. The spirals are positioned at the corners of a square layout against a solid black background. A horizontal band of light blue pixelated text reading "CourtneyS48" spans across both the top and bottom halves of the image, overlapping with the spiral patterns. Each spiral consists of multiple concentric loops that create an optical illusion effect.

Description

  • Four pink and black spiral patterns arranged in a with repeating text overlay

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink black spiral text
  • four spirals
  • CourtneyS48 pixel art
  • light blue text overlay

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in provided frame
  • quarantined description: Four pink and black spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid with repeating text overlay.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four spirals 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and provenance but no visual evidence supports these claims.

Visible Text

  • CourtneyS48

Visually Supported Entities

  • CourtneyS48

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • pink and black stripes
  • light blue text overlay
  • optical illusion pattern
  • "CourtneyS48" text
  • pixelated font
  • solid black background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807030420101067733272
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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/99/992cf118f96d4577433dbcdebdc46acd61c378069828dbe1e3a63e051621c055.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
992cf118f96d4577
SHA-256
992cf118f96d4577433dbcdebdc46acd61c378069828dbe1e3a63e051621c055
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 07:44 UTC
Run
1290
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.016148

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:13 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.150587

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Four pink and black spiral patterns arranged in a with repeating text overlay

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 10:16 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,968 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 617

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • dynamic (mood, 0.80)
  • hypnotic (mood, 0.80)
  • optical illusion (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)
  • spirals (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • black
  • light blue

Composition

  • symmetrical layout
  • central negative space

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical spirals, each composed of alternating pink and black stripes. The spirals are positioned at the corners of a square layout against a solid black background. A horizontal band of light blue pixelated text reading "CourtneyS48" spans across both the top and bottom halves of the image, overlapping with the spiral patterns. Each spiral consists of multiple concentric loops that create an optical illusion effect.

Description

  • Four pink and black spiral patterns arranged in a with repeating text overlay

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

Mood

  • hypnotic
  • dynamic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pink black spiral text
  • four spirals
  • CourtneyS48 pixel art
  • light blue text overlay

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected in provided frame
  • quarantined description: Four pink and black spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid with repeating text overlay.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four spirals 2x2 grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • untrustedSourceHintsJson contains metadata about collection era and provenance but no visual evidence supports these claims.

Style

  • pixel art
  • optical illusion
  • repeating pattern

Subjects

  • spirals
  • text

Visible Text

  • CourtneyS48

Visually Supported Entities

  • CourtneyS48

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • pink and black stripes
  • light blue text overlay
  • optical illusion pattern
  • "CourtneyS48" text
  • pixelated font
  • solid black background
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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
200807030420101067733272
Archive entry
200807030420101067733272.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#200807030420101067733272.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807030420101067733272.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016