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Four identical spiral patterns in red and blue with white text 'Ash' at the top of each spiral.

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Four identical spiral patterns in red and blue with white text 'Ash' at the top of each spiral.

Four identical spiral patterns in red and blue with white text 'Ash' at the top of each spiral. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Ic…

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Source terms

Composition

  • evenly spaced
  • identical elements

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating red and blue curved bands forming a clockwise spiral. White text 'Ash' is positioned at the top of each spiral. The background of the entire image is solid red. The spirals are evenly spaced and identical in size and orientation. The image has a pixelated appearance with visible dithering between the red and blue bands.

Description

  • Four identical spiral patterns in red and blue with white text 'Ash' at the top of each spiral.

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 blue spiral ash
  • ash text spiral
  • four spirals ash
  • red background spiral
  • pixelated ash spirals

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined style: grid layout
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Visible Text

  • Ash

Wordwall

  • red and blue spirals
  • white text 'Ash'
  • clockwise spirals
  • pixelated
  • solid red background
  • identical spirals
  • evenly spaced
  • dithered bands

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070826153443527938316
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.7 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 14:41 UTC
Archive ID
aff3a06c95a90f1c
SHA-256
aff3a06c95a90f1cf4e484d0b96ec6b4fd8c7f9d2c9f40d32a6828f39f12eba0
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:27 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081962

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

Four identical spiral patterns in red and blue with white text 'Ash' at the top of each spiral.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 05:45 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,995 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 653

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • white

Composition

  • evenly spaced
  • identical elements

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating red and blue curved bands forming a clockwise spiral. White text 'Ash' is positioned at the top of each spiral. The background of the entire image is solid red. The spirals are evenly spaced and identical in size and orientation. The image has a pixelated appearance with visible dithering between the red and blue bands.

Description

  • Four identical spiral patterns in red and blue with white text 'Ash' at the top of each spiral.

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 blue spiral ash
  • ash text spiral
  • four spirals ash
  • red background spiral
  • pixelated ash spirals

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined style: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • dithered

Subjects

  • spirals
  • text

Visible Text

  • Ash

Wordwall

  • red and blue spirals
  • white text 'Ash'
  • clockwise spirals
  • pixelated
  • solid red background
  • identical spirals
  • evenly spaced
  • dithered bands
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 13:12 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
20070826153443527938316
Archive entry
20070826153443527938316.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:41 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#20070826153443527938316.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070826153443527938316.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016