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four identical orange and white spiral patterns with repeating black text "BAM F!!!" in a pixelated font

four identical orange and white spiral patterns with repeating black text "BAM F!!!" in a pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Share…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • static image (no motion observed)

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered spirals

Dense Caption

Four square panels arranged in a 2x2 grid, each containing an orange and white spiral pattern. The spirals have alternating bands of solid orange and white, forming a continuous swirl from the center outward. Overlaid on the spirals is black text reading "BAM F!!!" repeated five times vertically within each panel. The text uses a blocky pixelated font with visible dot matrix spacing between characters. Each panel's spiral orientation matches exactly across all four panels.

Description

  • four identical orange and white spiral patterns with repeating black text "BAM F!!!" in a pixelated font

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

  • buddy-icons
  • unconfirmed visuallySupportedEntities not promoted: 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange spiral text
  • BAM F!!! pixel art
  • four
  • blocky font spirals

Preprocessing Notes

  • All four panels show identical content; no visible animation changes between observations.
  • quarantined description: A grid of four identical orange and white spiral patterns with repeating black text "BAM F!!!" in a pixelated font.
  • quarantined wordwall: "BAM F!!!" text repeated five times per panel
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: four square panels
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Visible Text

  • BAM F!!!

Visually Supported Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710171254561915267774

Wordwall

  • four square
  • orange and white spirals
  • "BAM F!!!" text repeated five times per
  • blocky pixelated black text
  • solid orange bands on white background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710171254561915267774
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/e9/e94f67b231b618aa0c953019114ca192e35820344193d660a16de983e1fc2c2d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC
Archive ID
e94f67b231b618aa
SHA-256
e94f67b231b618aa0c953019114ca192e35820344193d660a16de983e1fc2c2d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:58 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083138

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.923888onnx/unsafe0.083138onnx/nsfw0.051561onnx/nsfl0.031577
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four identical orange and white spiral patterns with repeating black text "BAM F!!!" in a pixelated font

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 10:41 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,735 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 870

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • orange bands (object, 0.80)
  • text characters (object, 0.80)
  • white background (object, 0.80)
  • static image no motion observed (other, 0.80)
  • blocky font (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive pattern (style, 0.80)
  • spiral patterns (subject, 0.80)
  • text overlays (subject, 0.80)

Animation

  • static image (no motion observed)

Colors

  • orange
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered spirals

Dense Caption

Four square panels arranged in a 2x2 grid, each containing an orange and white spiral pattern. The spirals have alternating bands of solid orange and white, forming a continuous swirl from the center outward. Overlaid on the spirals is black text reading "BAM F!!!" repeated five times vertically within each panel. The text uses a blocky pixelated font with visible dot matrix spacing between characters. Each panel's spiral orientation matches exactly across all four panels.

Description

  • four identical orange and white spiral patterns with repeating black text "BAM F!!!" in a pixelated font

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

  • buddy-icons
  • unconfirmed visuallySupportedEntities not promoted: 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • orange spiral text
  • BAM F!!! pixel art
  • four
  • blocky font spirals

Objects

  • text characters
  • orange bands
  • white background

Preprocessing Notes

  • All four panels show identical content; no visible animation changes between observations.
  • quarantined description: A grid of four identical orange and white spiral patterns with repeating black text "BAM F!!!" in a pixelated font.
  • quarantined wordwall: "BAM F!!!" text repeated five times per panel
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined wordwall: four square panels
  • quarantined composition: symmetrical panels
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four panel grid

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • 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

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font
  • repetitive pattern

Subjects

  • spiral patterns
  • text overlays

Visible Text

  • BAM F!!!

Visually Supported Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200710171254561915267774

Wordwall

  • four square
  • orange and white spirals
  • "BAM F!!!" text repeated five times per
  • blocky pixelated black text
  • solid orange bands on white background
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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
200710171254561915267774
Archive entry
200710171254561915267774.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 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#200710171254561915267774.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710171254561915267774.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016