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Red and black spiral pattern with green text repeating 'michaelb218' and 'ge your sage your so socks rocks' across four quadrants.

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Red and black spiral pattern with green text repeating 'michaelb218' and 'ge your sage your so socks rocks' across four quadrants.

Red and black spiral pattern with green text repeating 'michaelb218' and 'ge your sage your so socks rocks' across four quadrants. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes

Composition

  • four quadrants

Dense Caption

Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid on a black background. Each spiral has red outer rings and black inner rings. Green text overlays each quadrant: 'michaelb218' appears twice at the top of each quadrant, followed by 'ge your sage your so' and 'socks rocks' in the lower portion. The text is pixelated and partially obscured. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation and color banding. No animation is present in the visible content.

Description

  • Red and black spiral pattern with green text repeating 'michaelb218' and 'ge your sage your so socks rocks' across four quadrants.

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: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red black spirals green text
  • michaelb218 ge your sage your so socks rocks
  • pixelated retro digital text
  • four quadrant spiral

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four quadrant spiral grid

Uncertain Text

  • michaelb218
  • ge your sage your so
  • socks rocks

Visible Text

  • michaelb218
  • ge your sage your so
  • socks rocks

Wordwall

  • red and black spirals
  • green pixelated text
  • four quadrants
  • 'michaelb218' text
  • 'ge your sage your so' text
  • 'socks rocks' text
  • black background
  • pixelated appearance
  • retro digital style
  • low-resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201112150954172062997340
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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/a4/a405605a83b1ba1fd09cbb0be2d16bf18e30e49b53816c796c951b300ce3e81b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC
Archive ID
a405605a83b1ba1f
SHA-256
a405605a83b1ba1fd09cbb0be2d16bf18e30e49b53816c796c951b300ce3e81b
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
0.118192

OpenAI category scores

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Red and black spiral pattern with green text repeating 'michaelb218' and 'ge your sage your so socks rocks' across four quadrants.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 01:34 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,893 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 652

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • chaotic (mood, 0.80)
  • vibrant (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • green

Composition

  • four quadrants

Dense Caption

Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid on a black background. Each spiral has red outer rings and black inner rings. Green text overlays each quadrant: 'michaelb218' appears twice at the top of each quadrant, followed by 'ge your sage your so' and 'socks rocks' in the lower portion. The text is pixelated and partially obscured. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital appearance with visible pixelation and color banding. No animation is present in the visible content.

Description

  • Red and black spiral pattern with green text repeating 'michaelb218' and 'ge your sage your so socks rocks' across four quadrants.

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: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • chaotic
  • vibrant

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • red black spirals green text
  • michaelb218 ge your sage your so socks rocks
  • pixelated retro digital text
  • four quadrant spiral

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four quadrant spiral grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Uncertain Text

  • michaelb218
  • ge your sage your so
  • socks rocks

Visible Text

  • michaelb218
  • ge your sage your so
  • socks rocks

Wordwall

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  • green pixelated text
  • four quadrants
  • 'michaelb218' text
  • 'ge your sage your so' text
  • 'socks rocks' text
  • black background
  • pixelated appearance
  • retro digital style
  • low-resolution
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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
201112150954172062997340
Archive entry
201112150954172062997340.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 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#201112150954172062997340.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201112150954172062997340.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016