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Four blue and yellow spiral patterns arranged in a on a yellow background, each spiral rotating clockwise with alternating blue and yellow bands

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Four blue and yellow spiral patterns arranged in a on a yellow background, each spiral rotating clockwise with alternating blue and yellow bands

Four blue and yellow spiral patterns arranged in a on a yellow background, each spiral rotating clockwise with alternating blue and yellow bands. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • quadrant arrangement
  • central blue cross

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating blue and yellow bands rotating clockwise. The spirals are positioned in the four quadrants of the image, with blue bands forming the outer edges of each spiral and yellow bands forming the inner edges. The background is solid yellow. The spirals are static with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

Four blue and yellow spiral patterns arranged in a on a yellow background, each spiral rotating clockwise with alternating blue and yellow bands

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

  • blue yellow spiral
  • clockwise spirals
  • spiral pattern
  • alternating blue yellow bands
  • symmetrical spiral arrangement
  • pixelated spiral icon
  • yellow background spiral
  • blue cross spiral

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four blue and yellow spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid on a yellow background, each spiral rotating clockwise with alternating blue and yellow bands.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 spiral pattern
  • quarantined retrieval: blue yellow spiral grid

Wordwall

  • blue and yellow spirals
  • alternating bands
  • clockwise rotation
  • solid yellow background
  • four identical spirals
  • blue outer bands
  • yellow inner bands

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070822080306934016575
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.1 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 14:40 UTC
Archive ID
c1ec1f0ac633636f
SHA-256
c1ec1f0ac633636f53a17d921b9b0f6d5167564303412085c8348f6631103d20
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 23, 2026 at 23:13 UTC
Run
1336
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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July 23, 2026 at 19:37 UTC
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four blue and yellow spiral patterns arranged in a on a yellow background, each spiral rotating clockwise with alternating blue and yellow bands

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 03:48 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,569 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 660

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • hypnotic (mood, 0.80)
  • repetitive (mood, 0.80)
  • geometric (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • blue
  • yellow

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • quadrant arrangement
  • central blue cross

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating blue and yellow bands rotating clockwise. The spirals are positioned in the four quadrants of the image, with blue bands forming the outer edges of each spiral and yellow bands forming the inner edges. The background is solid yellow. The spirals are static with no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

Four blue and yellow spiral patterns arranged in a on a yellow background, each spiral rotating clockwise with alternating blue and yellow bands

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

Mood

  • hypnotic
  • repetitive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • blue yellow spiral
  • clockwise spirals
  • spiral pattern
  • alternating blue yellow bands
  • symmetrical spiral arrangement
  • pixelated spiral icon
  • yellow background spiral
  • blue cross spiral

Preprocessing Notes

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  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 spiral pattern
  • quarantined retrieval: blue yellow spiral grid

Style

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  • pixelated
  • repeating patterns

Wordwall

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  • alternating bands
  • clockwise rotation
  • solid yellow background
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  • blue outer bands
  • yellow inner bands
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:37 UTC
Run
52
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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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
20070822080306934016575
Archive entry
20070822080306934016575.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:40 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#20070822080306934016575.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070822080306934016575.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016