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A static image with a red and pink spiral background displaying cyan text names: Anthony, Averie, Shane, Gina, Drew.

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A static image with a red and pink spiral background displaying cyan text names: Anthony, Averie, Shane, Gina, Drew.

A static image with a red and pink spiral background displaying cyan text names: Anthony, Averie, Shane, Gina, Drew. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • vertical text arrangement
  • centered text
  • concentric spiral background

Dense Caption

The image shows a static composition with a red and pink spiral background. Five cyan text names are arranged vertically: Anthony, Averie, Shane, Gina, Drew. The text is rendered in a pixelated font. The background consists of concentric spirals alternating between red and pink. The image has no visible motion or animation. The text is centered within the spiral pattern. The overall style is retro digital with high-contrast colors.

Description

  • A static image with a red and pink spiral background displaying cyan text names: Anthony, Averie, Shane, Gina, Drew.

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

  • cyan text names red pink spiral
  • Anthony Averie Shane Gina Drew spiral
  • pixelated text red pink background
  • vertical cyan names spiral background

Visible Text

  • Anthony
  • Averie
  • Shane
  • Gina
  • Drew

Wordwall

  • red and pink spiral background
  • cyan text names
  • Anthony
  • Averie
  • Shane
  • Gina
  • Drew
  • pixelated font
  • concentric spirals
  • vertical text arrangement

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802291308571267458697
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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/a5/a5494b0de2c16c7965de3e137c40f34bc97a322dd2a0097aa0c7170ccdb3128a.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
a5494b0de2c16c79
SHA-256
a5494b0de2c16c7965de3e137c40f34bc97a322dd2a0097aa0c7170ccdb3128a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:21 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079983

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

A static image with a red and pink spiral background displaying cyan text names: Anthony, Averie, Shane, Gina, Drew.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 13:47 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,622 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 626

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • high contrast (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • red
  • pink
  • cyan

Composition

  • vertical text arrangement
  • centered text
  • concentric spiral background

Dense Caption

The image shows a static composition with a red and pink spiral background. Five cyan text names are arranged vertically: Anthony, Averie, Shane, Gina, Drew. The text is rendered in a pixelated font. The background consists of concentric spirals alternating between red and pink. The image has no visible motion or animation. The text is centered within the spiral pattern. The overall style is retro digital with high-contrast colors.

Description

  • A static image with a red and pink spiral background displaying cyan text names: Anthony, Averie, Shane, Gina, Drew.

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

  • cyan text names red pink spiral
  • Anthony Averie Shane Gina Drew spiral
  • pixelated text red pink background
  • vertical cyan names spiral background

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital
  • high-contrast

Visible Text

  • Anthony
  • Averie
  • Shane
  • Gina
  • Drew

Wordwall

  • red and pink spiral background
  • cyan text names
  • Anthony
  • Averie
  • Shane
  • Gina
  • Drew
  • pixelated font
  • concentric spirals
  • vertical text arrangement
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
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Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
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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
200802291308571267458697
Archive entry
200802291308571267458697.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#200802291308571267458697.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802291308571267458697.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016