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Four identical spiral patterns with alternating blue and yellow colors, each labeled "Groovy" in black pixelated text at the top.

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Four identical spiral patterns with alternating blue and yellow colors, each labeled "Groovy" in black pixelated text at the top.

Four identical spiral patterns with alternating blue and yellow colors, each labeled "Groovy" in black pixelated text at the top. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four views show identical static spiral patterns.

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • identical quadrants

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral features alternating blue and yellow concentric rings forming a clockwise swirl. Black pixelated text reading "Groovy" appears at the top of each spiral. The background is solid yellow. All spirals are visually identical with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical spiral patterns with alternating blue and yellow colors, each labeled "Groovy" in black pixelated text at the top.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue yellow spiral
  • Groovy text spiral
  • pixelated spiral
  • retro spiral icon
  • four identical spirals
  • blue yellow pixel art
  • Groovy text
  • spiral layout

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; all four views show identical static spirals
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 spiral layout
  • quarantined retrieval: Groovy text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated spiral grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200901101706301907644498
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200901101706301907644498

Visible Text

  • Groovy

Wordwall

  • blue and yellow spiral
  • four identical spirals
  • clockwise swirl
  • black pixelated text
  • Groovy text
  • solid yellow background
  • alternating concentric rings

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901101706301907644498
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a3/a3db18d24ca2cfadff7dbb2502f1397d7bf7e8236ebcaae598a216ac0ff7efe9.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Archive ID
a3db18d24ca2cfad
SHA-256
a3db18d24ca2cfadff7dbb2502f1397d7bf7e8236ebcaae598a216ac0ff7efe9
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:20 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079189

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Four identical spiral patterns with alternating blue and yellow colors, each labeled "Groovy" in black pixelated text at the top.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 17:32 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,918 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,104, response 814

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • gridded (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro (style, 0.80)
  • spiral patterns (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; all four views show identical static spiral patterns.

Colors

  • blue
  • yellow
  • black

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • identical quadrants

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral features alternating blue and yellow concentric rings forming a clockwise swirl. Black pixelated text reading "Groovy" appears at the top of each spiral. The background is solid yellow. All spirals are visually identical with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical spiral patterns with alternating blue and yellow colors, each labeled "Groovy" in black pixelated text at the top.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue yellow spiral
  • Groovy text spiral
  • pixelated spiral
  • retro spiral icon
  • four identical spirals
  • blue yellow pixel art
  • Groovy text
  • spiral layout

Preprocessing Notes

  • No animation detected; all four views show identical static spirals
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 spiral layout
  • quarantined retrieval: Groovy text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated spiral grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): 2007-2016
  • collection identity (gallery; hint): franksicons
  • observation file-name (gallery): franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • observation title (gallery): 200901101706301907644498
  • observation file-name (gallery): 200901101706301907644498

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro
  • gridded

Subjects

  • spiral patterns

Visible Text

  • Groovy

Wordwall

  • blue and yellow spiral
  • four identical spirals
  • clockwise swirl
  • black pixelated text
  • Groovy text
  • solid yellow background
  • alternating concentric rings
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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
200901101706301907644498
Archive entry
200901101706301907644498.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:48 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#200901101706301907644498.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901101706301907644498.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016