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Pixelated image of three sheep in a grassy field with text "shoun the sheep" and "BAAH" on white background.

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Pixelated image of three sheep in a grassy field with text "shoun the sheep" and "BAAH" on white background.

Pixelated image of three sheep in a grassy field with text "shoun the sheep" and "BAAH" on white background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Depicts

Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • three sheep in a
  • text above and below image
  • gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

Three pixelated black-and-white sheep stand on a light brown ground strip beneath green grass. The leftmost sheep faces right, middle sheep faces forward, rightmost sheep faces left. Text reads "shoun" above "the" above "sheep" in black block letters; below the image, text reads "BAAH" in black block letters. Background is white with a gray rectangle on the right.

Description

  • Pixelated image of three sheep in a grassy field with text "shoun the sheep" and "BAAH" on white 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • three sheep pixel art
  • shoun the sheep BAAH
  • pixelated sheep text
  • black white gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three sheep in a row

Visible Text

  • shoun
  • the
  • sheep
  • BAAH

Visually Supported Entities

  • sheep

Wordwall

  • three sheep
  • pixelated
  • black-and-white
  • grass strip
  • light brown ground
  • green grass
  • text: shoun
  • text: the
  • text: sheep
  • text: BAAH
  • white background
  • gray rectangle

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710071626521442764363
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/2e/2ebab4ef6e815f761e74eef1b00a3cefee9bc13ff79c5ceae86f71cd612e77f1.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Archive ID
2ebab4ef6e815f76
SHA-256
2ebab4ef6e815f761e74eef1b00a3cefee9bc13ff79c5ceae86f71cd612e77f1
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:32 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094187

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated image of three sheep in a grassy field with text "shoun the sheep" and "BAAH" on white background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 08:11 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,322 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,107, response 593

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • sheep (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • green
  • brown
  • gray

Composition

  • three sheep in a
  • text above and below image
  • gray rectangle on right

Dense Caption

Three pixelated black-and-white sheep stand on a light brown ground strip beneath green grass. The leftmost sheep faces right, middle sheep faces forward, rightmost sheep faces left. Text reads "shoun" above "the" above "sheep" in black block letters; below the image, text reads "BAAH" in black block letters. Background is white with a gray rectangle on the right.

Description

  • Pixelated image of three sheep in a grassy field with text "shoun the sheep" and "BAAH" on white 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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • three sheep pixel art
  • shoun the sheep BAAH
  • pixelated sheep text
  • black white gray rectangle

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: three sheep in a row

Style

  • pixel art
  • block letters

Subjects

  • sheep

Visible Text

  • shoun
  • the
  • sheep
  • BAAH

Visually Supported Entities

  • sheep

Wordwall

  • three sheep
  • pixelated
  • black-and-white
  • grass strip
  • light brown ground
  • green grass
  • text: shoun
  • text: the
  • text: sheep
  • text: BAAH
  • white background
  • gray rectangle
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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
200710071626521442764363
Archive entry
200710071626521442764363.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 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#200710071626521442764363.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710071626521442764363.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016