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Four identical spiral patterns in orange and purple with the name 'Shannon' in light blue text centered on each spiral.

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Four identical spiral patterns in orange and purple with the name 'Shannon' in light blue text centered on each spiral.

Four identical spiral patterns in orange and purple with the name 'Shannon' in light blue text centered on each spiral. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fra…

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Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating orange and purple concentric rings. Light blue text reading 'Shannon' is centered within each spiral. The spirals are uniform in size and spacing, with no visible differences between them. The background is a solid orange color. The image has a pixelated appearance typical of low-resolution digital graphics.

Description

  • Four identical spiral patterns in orange and purple with the name 'Shannon' in light blue text centered on 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Shannon spiral icon
  • four Shannon spirals
  • orange purple spiral text
  • light blue Shannon text
  • spiral
  • pixelated Shannon icon
  • concentric spiral text
  • repetitive Shannon spirals

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 spiral grid

Visible Text

  • Shannon

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • orange and purple
  • light blue text
  • Shannon
  • concentric rings
  • pixelated
  • uniform
  • centered text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070730101810429066195
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.9 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 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
b37c6a91efb2579b
SHA-256
b37c6a91efb2579be0e74b7d62645e7b9ddf75baabd8c7265dcaf53a47a7dd5b
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:29 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four identical spiral patterns in orange and purple with the name 'Shannon' in light blue text centered on each spiral.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 16:20 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,156 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,106, response 674

Review tags

  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • digital (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • orange
  • purple
  • light blue

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered text

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating orange and purple concentric rings. Light blue text reading 'Shannon' is centered within each spiral. The spirals are uniform in size and spacing, with no visible differences between them. The background is a solid orange color. The image has a pixelated appearance typical of low-resolution digital graphics.

Description

  • Four identical spiral patterns in orange and purple with the name 'Shannon' in light blue text centered on 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
  • provenance topic-coverage: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • repetitive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • Shannon spiral icon
  • four Shannon spirals
  • orange purple spiral text
  • light blue Shannon text
  • spiral
  • pixelated Shannon icon
  • concentric spiral text
  • repetitive Shannon spirals

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 spiral grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • digital
  • repetitive

Subjects

  • spirals
  • text

Visible Text

  • Shannon

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • orange and purple
  • light blue text
  • Shannon
  • concentric rings
  • pixelated
  • uniform
  • centered text
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:47 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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Source semantic tags (2)
TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20070730101810429066195
Archive entry
20070730101810429066195.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#20070730101810429066195.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070730101810429066195.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016