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Four spirals in alternating cyan and magenta colors arranged symmetrically on a solid background.

Four spirals in alternating cyan and magenta colors arranged symmetrically on a solid background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • symmetrical layout
  • central negative space

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical spiral patterns positioned at the corners of an implied square, each composed of alternating cyan and magenta concentric rings. The spirals rotate clockwise with equal spacing between their arms. Cyan forms the outermost ring in all spirals while magenta fills the inner sections. The background is a solid cyan color that matches the outer spiral rings. Each spiral has approximately six visible turns before reaching its center, where the pattern resolves into a small circular core of alternating colors.

Description

  • Four spirals in alternating cyan and magenta colors arranged symmetrically on a solid background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710061532011254040571

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan magenta spirals
  • four spiral pattern
  • symmetrical cyan background
  • clockwise rotation spirals

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • cyan and magenta
  • clockwise rotation
  • concentric rings
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • solid cyan background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710061532011254040571
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.1 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 14:49 UTC
Archive ID
9f476005801095f0
SHA-256
9f476005801095f01d05a21b8fdffb61ea6de3cefb8338fedbe41038545221c5
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:36 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.096287

OpenAI category scores

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Four spirals in alternating cyan and magenta colors arranged symmetrically on a solid background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 07:49 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,796 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 616

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • dynamic (mood, 0.80)
  • hypnotic (mood, 0.80)
  • vibrant (mood, 0.80)
  • geometric (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive pattern (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • magenta

Composition

  • four quadrants
  • symmetrical layout
  • central negative space

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical spiral patterns positioned at the corners of an implied square, each composed of alternating cyan and magenta concentric rings. The spirals rotate clockwise with equal spacing between their arms. Cyan forms the outermost ring in all spirals while magenta fills the inner sections. The background is a solid cyan color that matches the outer spiral rings. Each spiral has approximately six visible turns before reaching its center, where the pattern resolves into a small circular core of alternating colors.

Description

  • Four spirals in alternating cyan and magenta colors arranged symmetrically on a solid background.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710061532011254040571

Mood

  • hypnotic
  • vibrant
  • dynamic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan magenta spirals
  • four spiral pattern
  • symmetrical cyan background
  • clockwise rotation spirals

Style

  • geometric
  • pixelated
  • repetitive pattern

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • cyan and magenta
  • clockwise rotation
  • concentric rings
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • solid cyan 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
200710061532011254040571
Archive entry
200710061532011254040571.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 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#200710061532011254040571.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710061532011254040571.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016