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Four identical red and blue spiral patterns with white text reading 'erick.', 'fox.', 'ur.', and 'soxxxx.' arranged in a

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Composition

  • four identical spirals
  • text arranged vertically

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral features alternating red and blue concentric rings. White pixelated text appears at four positions: top reads 'erick.', second row reads 'fox.', third row reads 'ur.', bottom row reads 'soxxxx.'. The spirals are static with no visible animation changes. The background is solid blue. Text uses a retro digital font style. All four spirals are visually identical with no variations.

Description

  • Four identical red and blue spiral patterns with white text reading 'erick.', 'fox.', 'ur.', and 'soxxxx.' arranged in a

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

  • red blue spiral text erick fox ur soxxxx
  • pixelated text spiral
  • retro digital spiral text
  • blue background red spiral white text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical red and blue spiral patterns with white text reading 'erick.', 'fox.', 'ur.', and 'soxxxx.' arranged in a 2x2 grid.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text spiral grid

Visible Text

  • erick.
  • fox.
  • ur.
  • soxxxx.

Wordwall

  • red and blue spiral
  • white pixelated text
  • erick. fox. ur. soxxxx.
  • retro digital font
  • solid blue background
  • identical spirals
  • four text positions

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806172013251975915251
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC

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GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.3 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 15:30 UTC
Archive ID
f8f0f1d30865308f
SHA-256
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:07 UTC
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1140
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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Four identical red and blue spiral patterns with white text reading 'erick.', 'fox.', 'ur.', and 'soxxxx.' arranged in a

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 06:46 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,603 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 636

Review tags

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  • white (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • red
  • blue
  • white

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  • four identical spirals
  • text arranged vertically

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral features alternating red and blue concentric rings. White pixelated text appears at four positions: top reads 'erick.', second row reads 'fox.', third row reads 'ur.', bottom row reads 'soxxxx.'. The spirals are static with no visible animation changes. The background is solid blue. Text uses a retro digital font style. All four spirals are visually identical with no variations.

Description

  • Four identical red and blue spiral patterns with white text reading 'erick.', 'fox.', 'ur.', and 'soxxxx.' arranged in a

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

  • red blue spiral text erick fox ur soxxxx
  • pixelated text spiral
  • retro digital spiral text
  • blue background red spiral white text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical red and blue spiral patterns with white text reading 'erick.', 'fox.', 'ur.', and 'soxxxx.' arranged in a 2x2 grid.
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Style

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  • erick.
  • fox.
  • ur.
  • soxxxx.

Wordwall

  • red and blue spiral
  • white pixelated text
  • erick. fox. ur. soxxxx.
  • retro digital font
  • solid blue background
  • identical spirals
  • four text positions
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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
200806172013251975915251
Archive entry
200806172013251975915251.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 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#200806172013251975915251.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806172013251975915251.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016