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Four identical display a red and blue spiral background with white text reading 'darcy' repeated three times and a white '3' at the top, arranged in a

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Four identical display a red and blue spiral background with white text reading 'darcy' repeated three times and a white '3' at the top, arranged in a

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Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

The image consists of four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel features a red and blue spiral background with alternating red and blue concentric spirals. At the top of each panel is a white numeral '3' in a pixelated font. Below the numeral, the word 'darcy' appears three times in white pixelated text, stacked vertically. The text and numeral are centered within the spiral background. The image is static with no visible animation changes across panels.

Description

Four identical display a red and blue spiral background with white text reading 'darcy' repeated three times and a white '3' at the top, arranged in a

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red blue spiral darcy 3
  • darcy 3 spiral background
  • white text red blue spiral
  • spiral darcy 3

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical panels display a red and blue spiral background with white text reading 'darcy' repeated three times and a white '3' at the top, arranged in a 2x2 grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: identical panels
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: spiral darcy 3 grid

Visible Text

  • darcy
  • 3

Wordwall

  • red and blue spiral background
  • white numeral '3' at top
  • white text 'darcy' repeated three times
  • pixelated font
  • centered text and numeral
  • identical
  • red and blue concentric spirals

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200707260633081749539577
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 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/a0/a043f5529605a17ada0dc424c5498afff2a1e950dc09b596bb9020a9692a6609.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC
Archive ID
a043f5529605a17a
SHA-256
a043f5529605a17ada0dc424c5498afff2a1e950dc09b596bb9020a9692a6609
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.076586

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

Four identical display a red and blue spiral background with white text reading 'darcy' repeated three times and a white '3' at the top, arranged in a

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 14:33 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,582 ms
Tokens
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Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • spiral (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • centered text
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

The image consists of four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel features a red and blue spiral background with alternating red and blue concentric spirals. At the top of each panel is a white numeral '3' in a pixelated font. Below the numeral, the word 'darcy' appears three times in white pixelated text, stacked vertically. The text and numeral are centered within the spiral background. The image is static with no visible animation changes across panels.

Description

Four identical display a red and blue spiral background with white text reading 'darcy' repeated three times and a white '3' at the top, arranged in a

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red blue spiral darcy 3
  • darcy 3 spiral background
  • white text red blue spiral
  • spiral darcy 3

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical panels display a red and blue spiral background with white text reading 'darcy' repeated three times and a white '3' at the top, arranged in a 2x2 grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: identical panels
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined style: grid
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical panels
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  • quarantined retrieval: spiral darcy 3 grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • spiral

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  • darcy
  • 3

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  • white numeral '3' at top
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  • pixelated font
  • centered text and numeral
  • identical
  • red and blue concentric spirals
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:17 UTC
Run
52
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
200707260633081749539577
Archive entry
200707260633081749539577.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 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#200707260633081749539577.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200707260633081749539577.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016