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Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on a white background, next to green text "I LOVE COWS" on yellow.

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Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on a white background, next to green text "I LOVE COWS" on yellow.

Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on a white background, next to green text "I LOVE COWS" on yellow. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIc…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • cow on left
  • text on right
  • yellow background fills entire frame

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated depiction of a cow's head with black and white patches against a white background. The cow has brown eyes, a pink nose, and visible mouth details. To the right of the cow, there is green text: "I" positioned above "LOVE COWS", all set on a bright yellow background. The image uses blocky pixel art style with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on a white background, next to green text "I LOVE COWS" on yellow.

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

  • cow head pixel art
  • yellow background green text
  • I LOVE COWS icon
  • pixelated cow nose

Visible Text

  • I
  • LOVE
  • COWS

Visually Supported Entities

  • cow head

Wordwall

  • cow head
  • black white patches
  • pink nose
  • green text
  • yellow background
  • pixelated
  • white background
  • I LOVE COWS

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200805081932471943569278
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/63/63c27ec308febd7456f0c52adca04dfc27cdbedfc21a715d8bfa5e6201338178.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 UTC
Archive ID
63c27ec308febd74
SHA-256
63c27ec308febd7456f0c52adca04dfc27cdbedfc21a715d8bfa5e6201338178
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 9, 2026 at 06:32 UTC
Run
1278
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000020

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:20 UTC
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106
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on a white background, next to green text "I LOVE COWS" on yellow.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 13:21 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,521 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 568

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • cow head (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pink
  • green
  • yellow

Composition

  • cow on left
  • text on right
  • yellow background fills entire frame

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated depiction of a cow's head with black and white patches against a white background. The cow has brown eyes, a pink nose, and visible mouth details. To the right of the cow, there is green text: "I" positioned above "LOVE COWS", all set on a bright yellow background. The image uses blocky pixel art style with limited color palette.

Description

  • Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on a white background, next to green text "I LOVE COWS" on yellow.

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

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cow head pixel art
  • yellow background green text
  • I LOVE COWS icon
  • pixelated cow nose

Style

  • pixel art
  • blocky

Subjects

  • cow head

Visible Text

  • I
  • LOVE
  • COWS

Visually Supported Entities

  • cow head

Wordwall

  • cow head
  • black white patches
  • pink nose
  • green text
  • yellow background
  • pixelated
  • white background
  • I LOVE COWS
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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
200805081932471943569278
Archive entry
200805081932471943569278.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:26 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#200805081932471943569278.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200805081932471943569278.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016