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Pixelated cow head with pink nose and black-and-white patches, surrounded by purple text phrases on white and black backgrounds.

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Pixelated cow head with pink nose and black-and-white patches, surrounded by purple text phrases on white and black backgrounds.

Pixelated cow head with pink nose and black-and-white patches, surrounded by purple text phrases on white and black backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no animation observed; image appears static

Composition

  • split background left white right black
  • text arranged in four sections

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated cow's head with light brown and white patches on the face, dark brown ears, and a large pink nose. The background is split: left side is white, right side is black. Purple pixelated text appears in four sections: top-right reads 'i love purple cows!!', bottom-left reads 'save a cow eat a chicken', bottom-right reads 'MOO!!!!'. All text uses a blocky, retro digital font. No animation changes are visible; the image is static.

Description

  • Pixelated cow head with pink nose and black-and-white patches, surrounded by purple text phrases on white and black backgrounds.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802141740591856899479
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple cow text
  • cow nose pink
  • save a cow eat a chicken
  • MOO!!! purple text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed; image appears static

Visible Text

  • i love purple cows!!
  • save a cow eat a chicken
  • MOO!!!!

Wordwall

  • cow head
  • pink nose
  • black-and-white patches
  • pixelated
  • purple text
  • white background left
  • black background right
  • retro digital font

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Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200802141740591856899479
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a0/a04b8cf6992b5c23410eaa9d82848cc6f085b4214d4b59865290136a6d1d4bab.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 UTC
Archive ID
a04b8cf6992b5c23
SHA-256
a04b8cf6992b5c23410eaa9d82848cc6f085b4214d4b59865290136a6d1d4bab
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 3, 2026 at 21:58 UTC
Run
1262
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000653

OpenAI category scores

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openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 2, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Run
1254
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.023577

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.023577falseviolence/graphic0.001603falseself-harm0.000518falseself-harm/intent0.000251falsesexual0.000019falseself-harm/instructions0.000003falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:18 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.346653

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated cow head with pink nose and black-and-white patches, surrounded by purple text phrases on white and black backgrounds.

Reviewed
August 3, 2026 at 21:52 UTC
Run
56
Version
v5
Elapsed
14,910 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,113, response 580

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • cow head (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no animation observed; image appears static

Colors

  • pink
  • brown
  • white
  • black
  • purple

Composition

  • split background left white right black
  • text arranged in four sections

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated cow's head with light brown and white patches on the face, dark brown ears, and a large pink nose. The background is split: left side is white, right side is black. Purple pixelated text appears in four sections: top-right reads 'i love purple cows!!', bottom-left reads 'save a cow eat a chicken', bottom-right reads 'MOO!!!!'. All text uses a blocky, retro digital font. No animation changes are visible; the image is static.

Description

  • Pixelated cow head with pink nose and black-and-white patches, surrounded by purple text phrases on white and black backgrounds.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200802141740591856899479
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • aim
  • buddy-icons
  • historical-archive

Mood

  • humorous
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • purple cow text
  • cow nose pink
  • save a cow eat a chicken
  • MOO!!! purple text

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed; image appears static

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • cow head

Visible Text

  • i love purple cows!!
  • save a cow eat a chicken
  • MOO!!!!

Wordwall

  • cow head
  • pink nose
  • black-and-white patches
  • pixelated
  • purple text
  • white background left
  • black background right
  • retro digital font
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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
200802141740591856899479
Archive entry
200802141740591856899479.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:14 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#200802141740591856899479.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200802141740591856899479.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016