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Four spirals in alternating cyan and magenta colors arranged symmetrically on a solid background.

Four spirals in alternating cyan and magenta colors arranged symmetrically on a solid background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • quadrant layout

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical spiral patterns positioned at the corners of an implied square. Each spiral consists of concentric curved lines transitioning between cyan and magenta hues, with the outermost ring being magenta and the innermost center cyan. The spirals are oriented clockwise, each occupying one quadrant of a 2x2 grid layout against a solid background that alternates between cyan and magenta in adjacent quadrants.

Description

  • Four spirals in alternating cyan and magenta colors arranged symmetrically on a solid 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2008022414413317040987

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan magenta spirals
  • four spiral pattern
  • geometric cyan magenta design
  • symmetrical spiral layout
  • pixelated spiral icon
  • repetitive spiral background
  • clockwise spiral arrangement
  • spiral

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid spiral

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • cyan and magenta colors
  • concentric curved lines
  • clockwise orientation
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • quadrant layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008022414413317040987
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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 15:16 UTC
Archive ID
e3fa4993f6db3729
SHA-256
e3fa4993f6db372928060b0e9652e0f3fa20092482f97c5694e52e582c400418
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:56 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.099738

OpenAI category scores

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Four spirals in alternating cyan and magenta colors arranged symmetrically on a solid background.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 03:31 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,744 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 634

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • magenta (color, 0.80)
  • dynamic (mood, 0.80)
  • hypnotic (mood, 0.80)
  • geometric (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive pattern (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • magenta

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • quadrant layout

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical spiral patterns positioned at the corners of an implied square. Each spiral consists of concentric curved lines transitioning between cyan and magenta hues, with the outermost ring being magenta and the innermost center cyan. The spirals are oriented clockwise, each occupying one quadrant of a 2x2 grid layout against a solid background that alternates between cyan and magenta in adjacent quadrants.

Description

  • Four spirals in alternating cyan and magenta colors arranged symmetrically on a solid 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 2008022414413317040987

Mood

  • hypnotic
  • dynamic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cyan magenta spirals
  • four spiral pattern
  • geometric cyan magenta design
  • symmetrical spiral layout
  • pixelated spiral icon
  • repetitive spiral background
  • clockwise spiral arrangement
  • spiral

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid spiral

Style

  • geometric
  • repetitive pattern
  • pixelated

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • cyan and magenta colors
  • concentric curved lines
  • clockwise orientation
  • symmetrical arrangement
  • quadrant layout
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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
2008022414413317040987
Archive entry
2008022414413317040987.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:16 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#2008022414413317040987.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008022414413317040987.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016