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Four identical purple and black spiral patterns with white text reading 'zowie the zombie' arranged in a on a black background

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Four identical purple and black spiral patterns with white text reading 'zowie the zombie' arranged in a on a black background

Four identical purple and black spiral patterns with white text reading 'zowie the zombie' arranged in a on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered text
  • identical quadrants

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral features alternating purple and black concentric rings forming a clockwise spiral. White pixelated text reading 'zowie the zombie' is centered within each spiral, with 'zowie' at the top, 'the' in the middle, and 'zombie' at the bottom. The background outside the spirals is solid black. All four spirals are visually identical with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical purple and black spiral patterns with white text reading 'zowie the zombie' arranged in a on a black 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

  • zowie the zombie spiral
  • purple black spiral text
  • zombie text
  • pixelated zombie spiral
  • zombie spiral
  • spiral text
  • zowie zombie spiral
  • zombie text spiral

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical purple and black spiral patterns with white text reading 'zowie the zombie' arranged in a 2x2 grid on a black background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: spiral text grid
  • quarantined retrieval: zombie spiral grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 grid zombie text

Visible Text

  • zowie
  • the
  • zombie

Wordwall

  • purple spiral
  • black concentric rings
  • white pixelated text
  • zowie the zombie
  • clockwise spiral
  • solid black background
  • identical spirals
  • pixelated font
  • text centered in spiral

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904011237381092811594
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC

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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
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC
Archive ID
f9087b69b5abb8d5
SHA-256
f9087b69b5abb8d51ce3fbc8808e78b4cd457251685580053f74434b282d3974
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:07 UTC
Run
1140
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Four identical purple and black spiral patterns with white text reading 'zowie the zombie' arranged in a on a black background

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 05:02 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,128 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 712

Review tags

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  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • purple
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • centered text
  • identical quadrants

Dense Caption

Four identical spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each spiral features alternating purple and black concentric rings forming a clockwise spiral. White pixelated text reading 'zowie the zombie' is centered within each spiral, with 'zowie' at the top, 'the' in the middle, and 'zombie' at the bottom. The background outside the spirals is solid black. All four spirals are visually identical with no discernible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical purple and black spiral patterns with white text reading 'zowie the zombie' arranged in a on a black 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

Mood

  • mysterious
  • hypnotic

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  • pixelated zombie spiral
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  • spiral text
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Style

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  • digital

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  • spiral
  • text

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  • the
  • zombie

Wordwall

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  • black concentric rings
  • white pixelated text
  • zowie the zombie
  • clockwise spiral
  • solid black background
  • identical spirals
  • pixelated font
  • text centered in spiral
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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
200904011237381092811594
Archive entry
200904011237381092811594.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 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#200904011237381092811594.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904011237381092811594.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016