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Four blue and cyan spiral patterns arranged in a on a solid background

Four blue and cyan spiral patterns arranged in a on a solid background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-2000s to Mid-…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • arrangement
  • four quadrants

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical spirals, each composed of alternating light blue and dark blue concentric rings. The spirals are positioned at the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners of a square frame. Each spiral rotates clockwise from its outer edge toward a central point. The background is solid cyan. There are no visible text elements or additional objects.

Description

  • Four blue and cyan spiral patterns arranged in a 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
  • 20080528124207980524898

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four blue spirals cyan background
  • clockwise spiral
  • geometric pixelated icon
  • symmetrical spiral pattern

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four blue and cyan spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: clockwise spiral grid

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • blue and cyan colors
  • concentric rings
  • clockwise rotation

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080528124207980524898
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 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
icons/fa/fa261f11b4fb4e80b12e74c206fd8f7c90e8354e50b85ce336cb90f6f138cc83.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC
Archive ID
fa261f11b4fb4e80
SHA-256
fa261f11b4fb4e80b12e74c206fd8f7c90e8354e50b85ce336cb90f6f138cc83
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:07 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.111688

OpenAI category scores

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Four blue and cyan spiral patterns arranged in a on a solid background

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 19:54 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
15,114 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 593

Review tags

  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • calming (mood, 0.80)
  • hypnotic (mood, 0.80)
  • geometric (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • spirals (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • cyan
  • light blue
  • dark blue

Composition

  • symmetrical
  • arrangement
  • four quadrants

Dense Caption

The image displays four identical spirals, each composed of alternating light blue and dark blue concentric rings. The spirals are positioned at the top-left, top-right, bottom-left, and bottom-right corners of a square frame. Each spiral rotates clockwise from its outer edge toward a central point. The background is solid cyan. There are no visible text elements or additional objects.

Description

  • Four blue and cyan spiral patterns arranged in a 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
  • 20080528124207980524898

Mood

  • calming
  • hypnotic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • four blue spirals cyan background
  • clockwise spiral
  • geometric pixelated icon
  • symmetrical spiral pattern

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four blue and cyan spiral patterns arranged in a 2x2 grid on a solid background.
  • quarantined wordwall: 2x2 grid layout
  • quarantined composition: grid arrangement
  • quarantined retrieval: clockwise spiral grid

Style

  • geometric
  • pixelated

Subjects

  • spirals

Wordwall

  • four spirals
  • blue and cyan colors
  • concentric rings
  • clockwise rotation
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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
20080528124207980524898
Archive entry
20080528124207980524898.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 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#20080528124207980524898.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080528124207980524898.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016