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A pixelated image shows a golden spiral with a glowing yellow light source on the left side, set against a white background.

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A pixelated image shows a golden spiral with a glowing yellow light source on the left side, set against a white background.

A pixelated image shows a golden spiral with a glowing yellow light source on the left side, set against a white background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left-side light source
  • right-to-left spiral
  • white background

Dense Caption

The image is highly pixelated. On the left side, there is a bright yellow light source that transitions into a gradient of lighter yellow and white. To the right of this light source, a brownish-gold spiral shape extends from the bottom-right corner towards the center-left area. The spiral has multiple concentric loops with varying shades of brown and gold. The background is predominantly white with subtle gradients blending into the light source's glow.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a golden spiral with a glowing yellow light source on the left side, set against a white background.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071106175948506153872

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • golden spiral pixelated image
  • yellow light source white background
  • brown gold concentric loops
  • pixelated abstract spiral

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • golden spiral
  • yellow light source
  • white background
  • concentric loops
  • brownish-gold color
  • light gradient

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071106175948506153872
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
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 14:53 UTC
Archive ID
c600a4f2b7c1be5b
SHA-256
c600a4f2b7c1be5b2f7a400c299db4b458ffbbcda32aa41a5e35f0f605aa5429
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:40 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075625

OpenAI category scores

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A pixelated image shows a golden spiral with a glowing yellow light source on the left side, set against a white background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,061 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,089, response 626

Review tags

  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gold (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • abstract (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • light source (subject, 0.80)
  • spiral (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • white
  • brown
  • gold

Composition

  • left-side light source
  • right-to-left spiral
  • white background

Dense Caption

The image is highly pixelated. On the left side, there is a bright yellow light source that transitions into a gradient of lighter yellow and white. To the right of this light source, a brownish-gold spiral shape extends from the bottom-right corner towards the center-left area. The spiral has multiple concentric loops with varying shades of brown and gold. The background is predominantly white with subtle gradients blending into the light source's glow.

Description

  • A pixelated image shows a golden spiral with a glowing yellow light source on the left side, set against a white background.

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: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20071106175948506153872

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • golden spiral pixelated image
  • yellow light source white background
  • brown gold concentric loops
  • pixelated abstract spiral

Style

  • pixelated
  • abstract

Subjects

  • spiral
  • light source

Wordwall

  • pixelated
  • golden spiral
  • yellow light source
  • white background
  • concentric loops
  • brownish-gold color
  • light gradient
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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
20071106175948506153872
Archive entry
20071106175948506153872.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:53 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#20071106175948506153872.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071106175948506153872.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016