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Pixelated black-and-white cow icon with heart symbol on white background, adjacent to pink background with text "cows are better alive".

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Pixelated black-and-white cow icon with heart symbol on white background, adjacent to pink background with text "cows are better alive".

Pixelated black-and-white cow icon with heart symbol on white background, adjacent to pink background with text "cows are better alive". Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Int…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • two-section layout
  • left cow icon on white
  • right text on pink

Dense Caption

The icon consists of two distinct sections. On the left, a pixelated black-and-white cow icon with a heart symbol is displayed on a white background. The cow icon has a simple, blocky design with visible pixelation. On the right, a solid pink background contains the text "cows are better alive" in black, pixelated font. The text is arranged in two lines, with "cows are" on the top line and "better alive" on the bottom line. The overall style is retro and pixelated, typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated black-and-white cow icon with heart symbol on white background, adjacent to pink background with text "cows are better alive".

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 icon heart
  • cows are better alive
  • pixelated cow text
  • retro cow icon
  • pink background cow
  • white background heart
  • two section cow
  • cows better alive text

Subjects

  • heart

Visible Text

  • cows are better alive

Wordwall

  • cow icon
  • heart symbol
  • white background
  • pink background
  • cows are better alive
  • pixelated font
  • retro graphics
  • blocky design
  • text on pink
  • two-section layout

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708191028331687220488
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
958 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b8/b853427299c4ea2d193bc2fc559294438414992873d2097d4d303510d61a9208.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 UTC
Archive ID
b853427299c4ea2d
SHA-256
b853427299c4ea2d193bc2fc559294438414992873d2097d4d303510d61a9208
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:32 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.134147

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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated black-and-white cow icon with heart symbol on white background, adjacent to pink background with text "cows are better alive".

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 02:06 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,034 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,149, response 662

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  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • sentimental (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
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  • heart (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • pink

Composition

  • two-section layout
  • left cow icon on white
  • right text on pink

Dense Caption

The icon consists of two distinct sections. On the left, a pixelated black-and-white cow icon with a heart symbol is displayed on a white background. The cow icon has a simple, blocky design with visible pixelation. On the right, a solid pink background contains the text "cows are better alive" in black, pixelated font. The text is arranged in two lines, with "cows are" on the top line and "better alive" on the bottom line. The overall style is retro and pixelated, typical of early digital graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated black-and-white cow icon with heart symbol on white background, adjacent to pink background with text "cows are better alive".

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
  • sentimental

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cow icon heart
  • cows are better alive
  • pixelated cow text
  • retro cow icon
  • pink background cow
  • white background heart
  • two section cow
  • cows better alive text

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  • pixelated
  • retro

Subjects

  • cow
  • heart

Visible Text

  • cows are better alive

Wordwall

  • cow icon
  • heart symbol
  • white background
  • pink background
  • cows are better alive
  • pixelated font
  • retro graphics
  • blocky design
  • text on pink
  • two-section layout
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 12:10 UTC
Run
52
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)
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
200708191028331687220488
Archive entry
200708191028331687220488.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:39 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#200708191028331687220488.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708191028331687220488.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016