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Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a with blue text overlays on a light background

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a with blue text overlays on a light background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons……

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • identical quadrants

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid; each spiral features alternating dark brown and light cream stripes forming a clockwise spiral. Blue text overlays appear on each spiral: 'you' in lowercase letters positioned above '!!!' in uppercase letters. The background is a uniform light cream color. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance typical of early digital graphics. The spirals are identical across all four quadrants, with no visible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a with blue text overlays on a light 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
  • 201004151002351526938079

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four spirals
  • blue text you !!!
  • dark brown cream spirals
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • repetitive spiral pattern
  • light cream background
  • identical quadrants
  • low-resolution graphics

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected
  • static image
  • quarantined description: Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid with blue text overlays on a light background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: four spirals 2x2 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • you
  • !!!

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • dark brown and cream stripes
  • clockwise spirals
  • blue text
  • you
  • !!!
  • light cream background
  • pixelated
  • identical quadrants

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201004151002351526938079
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/ef/ef1ece131fadcd26400f8fe853b416237628fb286357d5af8800d73d14478bfc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 UTC
Archive ID
ef1ece131fadcd26
SHA-256
ef1ece131fadcd26400f8fe853b416237628fb286357d5af8800d73d14478bfc
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:01 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079194

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a with blue text overlays on a light background

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 18:32 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,866 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 833

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • dark brown (color, 0.80)
  • light cream (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • repetitive (style, 0.80)
  • spirals (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • dark brown
  • light cream
  • blue

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • identical quadrants

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid; each spiral features alternating dark brown and light cream stripes forming a clockwise spiral. Blue text overlays appear on each spiral: 'you' in lowercase letters positioned above '!!!' in uppercase letters. The background is a uniform light cream color. The image has a pixelated, low-resolution appearance typical of early digital graphics. The spirals are identical across all four quadrants, with no visible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a with blue text overlays on a light 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
  • 201004151002351526938079

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral
  • repetitive

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  • blue text you !!!
  • dark brown cream spirals
  • pixelated buddy icon
  • repetitive spiral pattern
  • light cream background
  • identical quadrants
  • low-resolution graphics

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  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
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Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
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  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • repetitive

Subjects

  • spirals
  • text

Visible Text

  • you
  • !!!

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • dark brown and cream stripes
  • clockwise spirals
  • blue text
  • you
  • !!!
  • light cream background
  • pixelated
  • identical quadrants
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 22:33 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
201004151002351526938079
Archive entry
201004151002351526938079.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:06 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#201004151002351526938079.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201004151002351526938079.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016