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Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing cyan text reading "CHARLIE" in pixelated font

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Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing cyan text reading "CHARLIE" in pixelated font

Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing cyan text reading "CHARLIE" in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • quadrant arrangement
  • centered text
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral features alternating red and black concentric rings forming a clockwise spiral. Cyan pixelated text reading "CHARLIE" is centered within each spiral. The spirals are positioned in the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right quadrants of the square frame. The background is solid black. The image has a low-resolution pixelated style with no visible animation or motion changes.

Description

  • Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing cyan text reading "CHARLIE" in 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

  • red black spiral cyan charlie
  • charlie spiral icon
  • cyan text spiral
  • pixelated charlie spiral
  • 4 identical spirals
  • red black cyan
  • charlie
  • spiral text icon

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid, each containing cyan text reading "CHARLIE" in pixelated font.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: charlie 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: red black cyan grid

Visible Text

  • CHARLIE

Wordwall

  • red and black spiral patterns
  • cyan text
  • CHARLIE
  • pixelated font
  • solid black background
  • low-resolution
  • identical spirals
  • concentric rings
  • clockwise spiral

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200911280610001442466048
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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 16:04 UTC
Archive ID
a851cee09e40c563
SHA-256
a851cee09e40c5633eb9f356006726e53174131b32b3cdf80974d61120532c9d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:22 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing cyan text reading "CHARLIE" in pixelated font

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 20:45 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,255 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 728

Review tags

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  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • red
  • black
  • cyan

Composition

  • quadrant arrangement
  • centered text
  • symmetrical

Dense Caption

Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral features alternating red and black concentric rings forming a clockwise spiral. Cyan pixelated text reading "CHARLIE" is centered within each spiral. The spirals are positioned in the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right quadrants of the square frame. The background is solid black. The image has a low-resolution pixelated style with no visible animation or motion changes.

Description

  • Four identical red and black spiral patterns arranged in a , each containing cyan text reading "CHARLIE" in 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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  • hypnotic
  • repetitive
  • stark

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Style

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Subjects

  • spiral patterns
  • text

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  • CHARLIE

Wordwall

  • red and black spiral patterns
  • cyan text
  • CHARLIE
  • pixelated font
  • solid black background
  • low-resolution
  • identical spirals
  • concentric rings
  • clockwise spiral
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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
200911280610001442466048
Archive entry
200911280610001442466048.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#200911280610001442466048.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200911280610001442466048.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016