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Four identical pixelated spiral icons arranged in a , each with brown text reading "AIRY" above a pink and white spiral pattern

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Four identical pixelated spiral icons arranged in a , each with brown text reading "AIRY" above a pink and white spiral pattern

Four identical pixelated spiral icons arranged in a , each with brown text reading "AIRY" above a pink and white spiral pattern. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered spirals
  • white background

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated spiral icons arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each icon features a pink and white spiral pattern with alternating bands. Above each spiral, brown text reads "AIRY" in a stylized font. The spirals are centered within each quadrant of the grid. The image is static with no visible animation changes. The background is white. The overall style is retro digital with low-resolution pixel art.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated spiral icons arranged in a , each with brown text reading "AIRY" above a pink and white spiral pattern

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 white spiral icon
  • AIRY text spiral
  • pixelated spiral icon
  • brown text spiral
  • retro digital spiral
  • spiral
  • stylized font spiral
  • static spiral icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical pixelated spiral icons arranged in a 2x2 grid, each with brown text reading "AIRY" above a pink and white spiral pattern.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid spiral

Visible Text

  • AIRY

Wordwall

  • four identical icons
  • pink and white spiral
  • brown text "AIRY"
  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • stylized font
  • centered spirals
  • white background
  • static image

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080621150459273559863
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4 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 15:31 UTC
Archive ID
9b488606a554eab3
SHA-256
9b488606a554eab364cc6e4076ce00fb5236b42c5a58c8eca0b509364f1f8233
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.069240

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Four identical pixelated spiral icons arranged in a , each with brown text reading "AIRY" above a pink and white spiral pattern

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 07:37 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,786 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 679

Review tags

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  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • pink
  • white
  • brown

Composition

  • centered spirals
  • white background

Dense Caption

Four identical pixelated spiral icons arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each icon features a pink and white spiral pattern with alternating bands. Above each spiral, brown text reads "AIRY" in a stylized font. The spirals are centered within each quadrant of the grid. The image is static with no visible animation changes. The background is white. The overall style is retro digital with low-resolution pixel art.

Description

  • Four identical pixelated spiral icons arranged in a , each with brown text reading "AIRY" above a pink and white spiral pattern

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 white spiral icon
  • AIRY text spiral
  • pixelated spiral icon
  • brown text spiral
  • retro digital spiral
  • spiral
  • stylized font spiral
  • static spiral icon

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid spiral

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • stylized font

Subjects

  • spiral
  • text

Visible Text

  • AIRY

Wordwall

  • four identical icons
  • pink and white spiral
  • brown text "AIRY"
  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • stylized font
  • centered spirals
  • white background
  • static image
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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
20080621150459273559863
Archive entry
20080621150459273559863.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 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#20080621150459273559863.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080621150459273559863.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016