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Four orange and yellow spiral patterns arranged in a square on a yellow background

Four orange and yellow spiral patterns arranged in a square on a yellow background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2…

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Source terms

Composition

  • centered
  • symmetrical
  • quadrant arrangement

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating orange and yellow concentric rings forming a clockwise spiral. The spirals are positioned in the four quadrants of the square frame, with a yellow square space between them at the center. The background is solid yellow. The image has a pixelated appearance with visible dithering between color transitions.

Description

  • Four orange and yellow spiral patterns arranged in a square on a yellow 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: 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 orange spirals
  • yellow background spiral
  • pixelated spiral
  • symmetrical spiral pattern
  • spiral arrangement
  • orange yellow concentric spirals
  • dithered spiral art
  • centered spiral

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four orange and yellow spiral patterns arranged in a square grid on a yellow background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: centered spiral grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 spiral arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated spiral grid

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • orange and yellow
  • concentric rings
  • clockwise spiral
  • yellow background
  • pixelated
  • dithering
  • centered yellow square
  • symmetrical

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904291725481867809626
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
cb1e9955e425996f
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:42 UTC
Run
1140
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.074155

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Four orange and yellow spiral patterns arranged in a square on a yellow background

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 08:18 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,474 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 652

Review tags

  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • repeating pattern (style, 0.80)
  • symmetrical (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • orange

Composition

  • centered
  • symmetrical
  • quadrant arrangement

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral consists of alternating orange and yellow concentric rings forming a clockwise spiral. The spirals are positioned in the four quadrants of the square frame, with a yellow square space between them at the center. The background is solid yellow. The image has a pixelated appearance with visible dithering between color transitions.

Description

  • Four orange and yellow spiral patterns arranged in a square on a yellow 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: 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 orange spirals
  • yellow background spiral
  • pixelated spiral
  • symmetrical spiral pattern
  • spiral arrangement
  • orange yellow concentric spirals
  • dithered spiral art
  • centered spiral

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four orange and yellow spiral patterns arranged in a square grid on a yellow background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: centered spiral grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 spiral arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated spiral grid

Style

  • pixel art
  • symmetrical
  • repeating pattern

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • orange and yellow
  • concentric rings
  • clockwise spiral
  • yellow background
  • pixelated
  • dithering
  • centered yellow square
  • symmetrical
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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
200904291725481867809626
Archive entry
200904291725481867809626.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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

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