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Pixelated cow with black-and-white patches and brown horns stands on a white background, next to red text reading 'your face scared my cow!! buy a new one'.

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Pixelated cow with black-and-white patches and brown horns stands on a white background, next to red text reading 'your face scared my cow!! buy a new one'.

Pixelated cow with black-and-white patches and brown horns stands on a white background, next to red text reading 'your face scared my cow!! buy a new one'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM…

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Style

Mood

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Source terms

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image.

Composition

  • two vertical sections
  • left cow on white background
  • right text on red background

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated composition divided into two vertical sections. On the left, a cow with black-and-white patches and brown horns stands on a white background; its body is light brown with darker brown patches. On the right, a solid red background contains black pixelated text in four lines: 'your face', 'scared my', 'cow!!', 'buy a new one'. The cow's head is turned slightly left, ears are upright, and the text is in a blocky, retro digital font. The image has no visible animation.

Description

Pixelated cow with black-and-white patches and brown horns stands on a white background, next to red text reading 'your face scared my cow!! buy a new one'.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cow pixelated text
  • your face scared my cow
  • buy a new one
  • red background cow
  • pixelated cow text
  • humorous cow image
  • retro digital cow
  • cow black white brown

Visible Text

  • your face
  • scared my
  • cow!!
  • buy a new one

Wordwall

  • cow
  • black-and-white patches
  • brown horns
  • light brown body
  • white background
  • red background
  • black text
  • pixelated
  • four lines of text
  • cow!!
  • buy a new one
  • your face
  • scared my
  • retro digital font
  • upright ears
  • turned head
  • solid red
  • blocky text
  • brown patches
  • white background left

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712011258121861542192
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b3/b3f7c954be22ca5769c121145d28302d5c28ef6caad4c0473404a7c017404ebf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 UTC
Archive ID
b3f7c954be22ca57
SHA-256
b3f7c954be22ca5769c121145d28302d5c28ef6caad4c0473404a7c017404ebf
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 15, 2026 at 13:05 UTC
Run
1295
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.023372

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:29 UTC
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1136
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated cow with black-and-white patches and brown horns stands on a white background, next to red text reading 'your face scared my cow!! buy a new one'.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 12:54 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,297 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,146, response 742

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • red (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 (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • brown
  • red

Composition

  • two vertical sections
  • left cow on white background
  • right text on red background

Dense Caption

The image is a static pixelated composition divided into two vertical sections. On the left, a cow with black-and-white patches and brown horns stands on a white background; its body is light brown with darker brown patches. On the right, a solid red background contains black pixelated text in four lines: 'your face', 'scared my', 'cow!!', 'buy a new one'. The cow's head is turned slightly left, ears are upright, and the text is in a blocky, retro digital font. The image has no visible animation.

Description

Pixelated cow with black-and-white patches and brown horns stands on a white background, next to red text reading 'your face scared my cow!! buy a new one'.

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

Mood

  • humorous
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • your face scared my cow
  • buy a new one
  • red background cow
  • pixelated cow text
  • humorous cow image
  • retro digital cow
  • cow black white brown

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • cow

Visible Text

  • your face
  • scared my
  • cow!!
  • buy a new one

Wordwall

  • cow
  • black-and-white patches
  • brown horns
  • light brown body
  • white background
  • red background
  • black text
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  • cow!!
  • buy a new one
  • your face
  • scared my
  • retro digital font
  • upright ears
  • turned head
  • solid red
  • blocky text
  • brown patches
  • white background left
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 21:54 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200712011258121861542192
Archive entry
200712011258121861542192.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:01 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#200712011258121861542192.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712011258121861542192.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016