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Four identical blue and white spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text 'Carolyn' in blue pixelated font

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Four identical blue and white spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text 'Carolyn' in blue pixelated font

Four identical blue and white spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text 'Carolyn' in blue pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Source terms

Composition

  • central text
  • uniform spirals

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating light blue and white concentric rings forming a clockwise spiral. The text 'Carolyn' appears in blue pixelated font within each spiral, positioned centrally. The spirals are uniform in size and spacing, with no visible animation or motion changes across the grid. The background is solid white, and the spirals occupy the majority of each quadrant. The image is static with no additional visual elements or variations.

Description

  • Four identical blue and white spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text 'Carolyn' in blue pixelated font

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

  • four blue white spirals
  • Carolyn text spirals
  • pixelated blue text
  • spirals
  • blue white spiral patterns
  • Carolyn spiral icons
  • uniform spiral
  • text Carolyn spirals

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical blue and white spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid, each containing the text 'Carolyn' in blue pixelated font.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: uniform spiral grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid spirals

Visible Text

  • Carolyn

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • blue and white
  • spiral patterns
  • text 'Carolyn'
  • pixelated font
  • concentric rings
  • clockwise spiral
  • solid white background
  • uniform size

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070828174859571657822
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.2 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 14:42 UTC
Archive ID
a4ee972c314161f0
SHA-256
a4ee972c314161f06d983d6df7c429c9cfcd044715f2358edd92028c09303679
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:20 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.069343

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

Four identical blue and white spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text 'Carolyn' in blue pixelated font

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 06:48 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,711 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 706

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • spiral patterns (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • central text
  • uniform spirals

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating light blue and white concentric rings forming a clockwise spiral. The text 'Carolyn' appears in blue pixelated font within each spiral, positioned centrally. The spirals are uniform in size and spacing, with no visible animation or motion changes across the grid. The background is solid white, and the spirals occupy the majority of each quadrant. The image is static with no additional visual elements or variations.

Description

  • Four identical blue and white spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing the text 'Carolyn' in blue pixelated font

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

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  • four blue white spirals
  • Carolyn text spirals
  • pixelated blue text
  • spirals
  • blue white spiral patterns
  • Carolyn spiral icons
  • uniform spiral
  • text Carolyn spirals

Objects

  • spiral patterns
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: uniform spiral grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid spirals

Style

  • pixelated

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  • spiral patterns
  • text

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  • Carolyn

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  • blue and white
  • spiral patterns
  • text 'Carolyn'
  • pixelated font
  • concentric rings
  • clockwise spiral
  • solid white background
  • uniform size
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:29 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
20070828174859571657822
Archive entry
20070828174859571657822.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#20070828174859571657822.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070828174859571657822.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016