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Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on white background, red with text and smiley face

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Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on white background, red with text and smiley face

Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on white background, red with text and smiley face. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Budd…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • cow head on left
  • red on 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 panel on right contains black text 'ima cow.', 'QUACK', 'QUACK!', and ':)'; text is in pixelated font; cow head is cropped on left side of image; red panel occupies right half of image; cow head is static; text on red panel is static.

Description

  • Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on white background, red with text and smiley face

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 head pixelated
  • ima cow quack
  • quack quack smiley
  • red cow text
  • pixelated cow quack

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on white background, red panel with text and smiley face.
  • quarantined wordwall: red panel
  • quarantined composition: text on red panel
  • quarantined composition: red panel on right
  • quarantined retrieval: red panel cow text

Visible Text

  • ima cow.
  • QUACK
  • QUACK!
  • :)

Wordwall

  • cow head
  • black and white patches
  • brown nose
  • black ears
  • brown eyes
  • red
  • ima cow.
  • QUACK
  • QUACK!
  • :)
  • pixelated font
  • cropped left
  • static cow
  • static text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080629133621951969952
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b6/b69c68c5df9bb0f8ed3c9a0ce38b55f694ec9d07636f931e2737639ac0e7a3e5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
b69c68c5df9bb0f8
SHA-256
b69c68c5df9bb0f8ed3c9a0ce38b55f694ec9d07636f931e2737639ac0e7a3e5
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:30 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089133

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on white background, red with text and smiley face

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 09:28 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,959 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 637

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)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • cow head (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • black
  • brown
  • red

Composition

  • cow head on left
  • red on 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 panel on right contains black text 'ima cow.', 'QUACK', 'QUACK!', and ':)'; text is in pixelated font; cow head is cropped on left side of image; red panel occupies right half of image; cow head is static; text on red panel is static.

Description

  • Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on white background, red with text and smiley face

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

  • cow head pixelated
  • ima cow quack
  • quack quack smiley
  • red cow text
  • pixelated cow quack

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on white background, red panel with text and smiley face.
  • quarantined wordwall: red panel
  • quarantined composition: text on red panel
  • quarantined composition: red panel on right
  • quarantined retrieval: red panel cow text

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • buddy-icon

Subjects

  • cow head

Visible Text

  • ima cow.
  • QUACK
  • QUACK!
  • :)

Wordwall

  • cow head
  • black and white patches
  • brown nose
  • black ears
  • brown eyes
  • red
  • ima cow.
  • QUACK
  • QUACK!
  • :)
  • pixelated font
  • cropped left
  • static cow
  • static text
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TagConf.Evidencefranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-download-urlfranksicons.com shared buddy icons 2007 20160.65internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016 · typed-source-evidence-v2 · observation · file-name · gallery · observation-original-url
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
20080629133621951969952
Archive entry
20080629133621951969952.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#20080629133621951969952.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080629133621951969952.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016