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Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on white background, red with text "Sobaan is cool." in black font

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Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on white background, red with text "Sobaan is cool." in black font

Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on white background, red with text "Sobaan is cool." in black font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split composition
  • left cow on white
  • right text on red

Dense Caption

Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on white background; cow has brown nose and mouth, black ears, and brown eyes. Red background panel on right side contains black text "Sobaan" above "is cool." in pixelated font. Image is static with no animation. Composition is split: left side white background with cow, right side solid red background with text. Colors include white, red, black, brown, and light orange. Text is rendered in a blocky, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on white background, red with text "Sobaan is cool." in black font

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cow head pixelated
  • Sobaan is cool
  • red background text
  • split composition cow
  • pixelated blocky font
  • brown nose cow
  • black ears cow
  • white background cow

Preprocessing Notes

quarantined description: Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on white background, red panel with text "Sobaan is cool." in black font.

Visible Text

  • Sobaan
  • is
  • cool.

Wordwall

  • cow head
  • black and white patches
  • brown nose
  • black ears
  • brown eyes
  • white background
  • red background
  • Sobaan
  • is cool
  • pixelated
  • static
  • blocky font
  • split composition
  • light orange
  • brown mouth

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090409075244616751273
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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/98/984ed1eb57e834c43c769d3bda409082bb6896e3c5ae2fb071f7e451fadf2b62.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC
Archive ID
984ed1eb57e834c4
SHA-256
984ed1eb57e834c43c769d3bda409082bb6896e3c5ae2fb071f7e451fadf2b62
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:13 UTC
Run
1133
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.090947

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on white background, red with text "Sobaan is cool." in black font

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 06:02 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,506 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 668

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • light orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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Colors

  • white
  • red
  • black
  • brown
  • light orange

Composition

  • split composition
  • left cow on white
  • right text on red

Dense Caption

Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on white background; cow has brown nose and mouth, black ears, and brown eyes. Red background panel on right side contains black text "Sobaan" above "is cool." in pixelated font. Image is static with no animation. Composition is split: left side white background with cow, right side solid red background with text. Colors include white, red, black, brown, and light orange. Text is rendered in a blocky, pixelated style typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on white background, red with text "Sobaan is cool." in black font

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cow head pixelated
  • Sobaan is cool
  • red background text
  • split composition cow
  • pixelated blocky font
  • brown nose cow
  • black ears cow
  • white background cow

Preprocessing Notes

quarantined description: Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on white background, red panel with text "Sobaan is cool." in black font.

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky font

Subjects

  • cow head

Visible Text

  • Sobaan
  • is
  • cool.

Wordwall

  • cow head
  • black and white patches
  • brown nose
  • black ears
  • brown eyes
  • white background
  • red background
  • Sobaan
  • is cool
  • pixelated
  • static
  • blocky font
  • split composition
  • light orange
  • brown mouth
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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
20090409075244616751273
Archive entry
20090409075244616751273.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#20090409075244616751273.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090409075244616751273.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016