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Animated cow icon with black-and-white patches, orange horns, and a blue heart symbol that changes text from 'i' to 'i love cows'.

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Animated cow icon with black-and-white patches, orange horns, and a blue heart symbol that changes text from 'i' to 'i love cows'.

Animated cow icon with black-and-white patches, orange horns, and a blue heart symbol that changes text from 'i' to 'i love cows'. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • text changes sequentially from 'i' to 'i love cows'
  • heart symbol remains static

Animation Summary

  • Text above blue heart symbol animates sequentially from 'i' to 'i love cows'

Composition

  • centered cow
  • heart below text
  • text above heart

Dense Caption

Black-and-white spotted cow with small orange horns sits against purple background. Cow has large eyes, rounded ears, and dark hooves. Blue heart symbol appears below cow in all frames. Text above heart starts as 'i', then becomes 'i lo', then 'i lov', then 'i love', then 'i love co', finally 'i love cows'. All text is green with blue outline. Cow remains static throughout animation.

Description

  • Animated cow icon with black-and-white patches, orange horns, and a blue heart symbol that changes text from 'i' to 'i love cows'.

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
  • 200806272048051102555986
  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cow icon text animation
  • purple background cow
  • blue heart green text
  • i love cows animation

Visible Text

  • i
  • i lo
  • i lov
  • i love
  • i love co
  • i love cows

Visually Supported Entities

  • cow

Wordwall

  • black-and-white spotted cow
  • orange horns
  • purple background
  • blue heart symbol
  • green text with blue outline
  • text changes from 'i' to 'i love cows'
  • static cow pose

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806272048051102555986
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
8.4 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8d/8d6eb1c564443dd4659e0d811ca7d5eb91891b35ba4c1806a7aff1259fbdfb79.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
8d6eb1c564443dd4
SHA-256
8d6eb1c564443dd4659e0d811ca7d5eb91891b35ba4c1806a7aff1259fbdfb79
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:43 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.091792

OpenAI category scores

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Animated cow icon with black-and-white patches, orange horns, and a blue heart symbol that changes text from 'i' to 'i love cows'.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 09:10 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,156 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,166, response 708

Review tags

  • text animation (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • affectionate (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blue heart symbol (object, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cow (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • text animation

Animation

  • text changes sequentially from 'i' to 'i love cows'
  • heart symbol remains static

Animation Summary

  • Text above blue heart symbol animates sequentially from 'i' to 'i love cows'

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • orange
  • purple
  • green
  • blue

Composition

  • centered cow
  • heart below text
  • text above heart

Dense Caption

Black-and-white spotted cow with small orange horns sits against purple background. Cow has large eyes, rounded ears, and dark hooves. Blue heart symbol appears below cow in all frames. Text above heart starts as 'i', then becomes 'i lo', then 'i lov', then 'i love', then 'i love co', finally 'i love cows'. All text is green with blue outline. Cow remains static throughout animation.

Description

  • Animated cow icon with black-and-white patches, orange horns, and a blue heart symbol that changes text from 'i' to 'i love cows'.

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
  • 200806272048051102555986
  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Mood

  • playful
  • affectionate

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cow icon text animation
  • purple background cow
  • blue heart green text
  • i love cows animation

Objects

  • blue heart symbol

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • cow

Visible Text

  • i
  • i lo
  • i lov
  • i love
  • i love co
  • i love cows

Visually Supported Entities

  • cow

Wordwall

  • black-and-white spotted cow
  • orange horns
  • purple background
  • blue heart symbol
  • green text with blue outline
  • text changes from 'i' to 'i love cows'
  • static cow pose
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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
200806272048051102555986
Archive entry
200806272048051102555986.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#200806272048051102555986.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806272048051102555986.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016