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Four identical spiral patterns in brown and dark purple with the word 'cool' in white text at the center of each spiral.

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Four identical spiral patterns in brown and dark purple with the word 'cool' in white text at the center of each spiral.

Four identical spiral patterns in brown and dark purple with the word 'cool' in white text at the center of each spiral. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered text
  • concentric spirals

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating brown and dark purple concentric rings. The word 'cool' appears in white lowercase text at the center of each spiral. The spirals are static with no visible animation changes. The background is a solid brown color. The image has a pixelated appearance typical of low-resolution digital graphics from the early 2000s.

Description

  • Four identical spiral patterns in brown and dark purple with the word 'cool' in white text at the center 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

  • four spirals cool
  • brown purple spirals
  • cool text spirals
  • pixelated spirals
  • spirals
  • concentric spirals cool
  • brown background spirals
  • white text spirals

Preprocessing Notes

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

Visible Text

  • cool

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • brown and dark purple
  • white text
  • cool
  • concentric rings
  • pixelated
  • static
  • lowercase
  • centered text

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070724211123566604517
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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
icons/c3/c31b4c52d5c0c868892a2cfa0f78e2ae334587041c00cc96332632b8d4cc2c8c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 UTC
Archive ID
c31b4c52d5c0c868
SHA-256
c31b4c52d5c0c868892a2cfa0f78e2ae334587041c00cc96332632b8d4cc2c8c
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 25, 2026 at 14:06 UTC
Run
1343
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000037

OpenAI category scores

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Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/visual/violence0.500000image
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 4, 2026 at 23:03 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.010147

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.010147falseviolence/graphic0.001563falseself-harm0.000517falseself-harm/intent0.000217falseself-harm/instructions0.000214falsesexual0.000076falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:45 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077740

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.929691onnx/unsafe0.077740onnx/nsfw0.046440onnx/nsfl0.031300
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four identical spiral patterns in brown and dark purple with the word 'cool' in white text at the center of each spiral.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 14:02 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,037 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 673

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • dark purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • digital graphic (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • dark purple
  • white

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered text
  • concentric spirals

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating brown and dark purple concentric rings. The word 'cool' appears in white lowercase text at the center of each spiral. The spirals are static with no visible animation changes. The background is a solid brown color. The image has a pixelated appearance typical of low-resolution digital graphics from the early 2000s.

Description

  • Four identical spiral patterns in brown and dark purple with the word 'cool' in white text at the center 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

  • four spirals cool
  • brown purple spirals
  • cool text spirals
  • pixelated spirals
  • spirals
  • concentric spirals cool
  • brown background spirals
  • white text spirals

Preprocessing Notes

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • digital graphic

Visible Text

  • cool

Wordwall

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  • brown and dark purple
  • white text
  • cool
  • concentric rings
  • pixelated
  • static
  • lowercase
  • centered text
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:09 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)
Raw JSON
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
20070724211123566604517
Archive entry
20070724211123566604517.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:33 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#20070724211123566604517.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070724211123566604517.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016