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A static image with four identical showing a green and cyan spiral background overlaid with repeated purple text "wwhoo" in pixelated font

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A static image with four identical showing a green and cyan spiral background overlaid with repeated purple text "wwhoo" in pixelated font

A static image with four identical showing a green and cyan spiral background overlaid with repeated purple text "wwhoo" in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Color

Source terms

Composition

  • identical
  • central spiral in each
  • text aligned vertically within spirals

Dense Caption

The image consists of four identical square panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel features a swirling spiral pattern composed of alternating bright green and light cyan bands. Overlaid on the spiral is the word "wwhoo" repeated five times vertically, rendered in solid purple pixelated text with no serifs or additional styling. The background color outside the spirals is solid light cyan. All four panels display identical visual content without variation.

Description

  • A static image with four identical showing a green and cyan spiral background overlaid with repeated purple text "wwhoo" 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2008012014512596668663
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green cyan spiral wwhoo text
  • purple pixelated wwhoo
  • four identical spiral
  • light cyan background wwhoo

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static image with four identical panels showing a green and cyan spiral background overlaid with repeated purple text "wwhoo" in pixelated font.
  • quarantined wordwall: four identical square panels
  • quarantined style: grid composition
  • quarantined composition: central spiral in each panel
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid of identical panels
  • quarantined retrieval: four identical panels spiral

Subjects

  • spiral pattern

Visible Text

  • wwhoo

Wordwall

  • four identical square
  • green and cyan spiral pattern
  • repeated "wwhoo" text
  • purple pixelated font
  • light cyan background

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008012014512596668663
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.4 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/be/be2eeb96df6969c5c75b32fbbe4c7f6625130deb6fe139f7995a9614004986cb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Archive ID
be2eeb96df6969c5
SHA-256
be2eeb96df6969c5c75b32fbbe4c7f6625130deb6fe139f7995a9614004986cb
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:35 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.066382

OpenAI category scores

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A static image with four identical showing a green and cyan spiral background overlaid with repeated purple text "wwhoo" in pixelated font

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 11:53 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,212 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,105, response 704

Review tags

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  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light cyan (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • composition (style, 0.80)
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  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • cyan
  • purple
  • light cyan

Composition

  • identical
  • central spiral in each
  • text aligned vertically within spirals

Dense Caption

The image consists of four identical square panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel features a swirling spiral pattern composed of alternating bright green and light cyan bands. Overlaid on the spiral is the word "wwhoo" repeated five times vertically, rendered in solid purple pixelated text with no serifs or additional styling. The background color outside the spirals is solid light cyan. All four panels display identical visual content without variation.

Description

  • A static image with four identical showing a green and cyan spiral background overlaid with repeated purple text "wwhoo" 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2008012014512596668663
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • green cyan spiral wwhoo text
  • purple pixelated wwhoo
  • four identical spiral
  • light cyan background wwhoo

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: A static image with four identical panels showing a green and cyan spiral background overlaid with repeated purple text "wwhoo" in pixelated font.
  • quarantined wordwall: four identical square panels
  • quarantined style: grid composition
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  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid of identical panels
  • quarantined retrieval: four identical panels spiral

Style

  • pixel art
  • repetitive text layout
  • composition

Subjects

  • text
  • spiral pattern

Visible Text

  • wwhoo

Wordwall

  • four identical square
  • green and cyan spiral pattern
  • repeated "wwhoo" text
  • purple pixelated font
  • light cyan background
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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
2008012014512596668663
Archive entry
2008012014512596668663.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 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#2008012014512596668663.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008012014512596668663.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016