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Purple text on a light purple dotted background reads "Shoun The Sheep Smells!" in four identical vertical arrangements.

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Purple text on a light purple dotted background reads "Shoun The Sheep Smells!" in four identical vertical arrangements.

Purple text on a light purple dotted background reads "Shoun The Sheep Smells!" in four identical vertical arrangements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fr…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • four identical vertical blocks
  • centered on background

Dense Caption

Light purple background with white dots. Four identical vertical blocks of purple pixelated text: "Shoun", "The", "Sheep", "Smells!" each block is 4 lines tall, spaced evenly. Text uses a bold sans-serif font with rounded edges. No animation or motion observed.

Description

  • Purple text on a light purple dotted background reads "Shoun The Sheep Smells!" in four identical vertical arrangements.

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

  • shoun the sheep smells
  • purple text light purple background
  • pixelated buddy icon four blocks
  • humorous text icon

Visible Text

  • Shoun
  • The
  • Sheep
  • Smells!

Visually Supported Entities

  • "Shoun The Sheep" (text)

Wordwall

  • light purple background
  • white dots
  • purple text
  • pixelated font
  • four identical blocks
  • text: Shoun The Sheep Smells!
  • bold sans-serif
  • rounded edges

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081203122833836892207
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
818 bytes
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 15:45 UTC
Archive ID
77fb6ef16a634c13
SHA-256
77fb6ef16a634c135e842b3c93864e60b8622780b9670a8dce7297ce388ea651
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:04 UTC
Run
1053
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093813

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Purple text on a light purple dotted background reads "Shoun The Sheep Smells!" in four identical vertical arrangements.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 11:58 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,340 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 576

Review tags

  • light purple (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text layout (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • shoun the sheep text (subject, 0.80)
  • smells text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light purple
  • white
  • purple

Composition

  • four identical vertical blocks
  • centered on background

Dense Caption

Light purple background with white dots. Four identical vertical blocks of purple pixelated text: "Shoun", "The", "Sheep", "Smells!" each block is 4 lines tall, spaced evenly. Text uses a bold sans-serif font with rounded edges. No animation or motion observed.

Description

  • Purple text on a light purple dotted background reads "Shoun The Sheep Smells!" in four identical vertical arrangements.

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

  • humorous
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • shoun the sheep smells
  • purple text light purple background
  • pixelated buddy icon four blocks
  • humorous text icon

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky text layout

Subjects

  • "Shoun The Sheep" (text)
  • "Smells!" (text)

Visible Text

  • Shoun
  • The
  • Sheep
  • Smells!

Visually Supported Entities

  • "Shoun The Sheep" (text)

Wordwall

  • light purple background
  • white dots
  • purple text
  • pixelated font
  • four identical blocks
  • text: Shoun The Sheep Smells!
  • bold sans-serif
  • rounded edges
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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
20081203122833836892207
Archive entry
20081203122833836892207.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 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#20081203122833836892207.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081203122833836892207.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016