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Pixelated cow head with black ears and brown nose, wearing white chef's hat, next to dark brown background with white text.

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Pixelated cow head with black ears and brown nose, wearing white chef's hat, next to dark brown background with white text.

Pixelated cow head with black ears and brown nose, wearing white chef's hat, next to dark brown background with white text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • cow on left
  • text on right
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated cow head with black ears, brown nose, and light brown body; cow wears white chef's hat with orange-brown trim; cow's mouth is open with red tongue visible; background is solid dark brown; white pixelated text reads "I LUV COWS!!!"; text is vertically centered on right side; cow is positioned on left side of frame; image uses low-resolution pixel art style with limited color palette; cow's expression appears playful; text uses blocky, retro video game font.

Description

  • Pixelated cow head with black ears and brown nose, wearing white chef's hat, next to dark brown background with white text.

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 chef hat text
  • I LUV COWS pixel art
  • playful cow text
  • cow tongue chef hat

Visible Text

  • I LUV COWS!!!

Wordwall

  • cow head
  • black ears
  • brown nose
  • white chef hat
  • orange-brown trim
  • red tongue
  • dark brown background
  • white text
  • I LUV COWS!!!
  • pixel art
  • playful expression
  • retro font
  • low-resolution
  • solid background
  • text on right
  • cow on left
  • blocky letters
  • limited color palette
  • open mouth
  • chef's hat

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070903085652618349702
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
bce5c56f811505cb
SHA-256
bce5c56f811505cb2ad011cf65590175b1aa9c46dea079bf3e1e3396099a3e2d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:35 UTC
Run
1140
Input
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Overall label
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Overall score
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated cow head with black ears and brown nose, wearing white chef's hat, next to dark brown background with white text.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 09:31 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,899 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,142, response 689

Review tags

  • eating (action, 0.80)
  • talking (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • orange brown (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • chef s hat (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro video game (style, 0.80)
  • cow (subject, 0.80)

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  • eating
  • talking

Colors

  • black
  • brown
  • white
  • orange-brown
  • red

Composition

  • cow on left
  • text on right
  • solid background

Dense Caption

Pixelated cow head with black ears, brown nose, and light brown body; cow wears white chef's hat with orange-brown trim; cow's mouth is open with red tongue visible; background is solid dark brown; white pixelated text reads "I LUV COWS!!!"; text is vertically centered on right side; cow is positioned on left side of frame; image uses low-resolution pixel art style with limited color palette; cow's expression appears playful; text uses blocky, retro video game font.

Description

  • Pixelated cow head with black ears and brown nose, wearing white chef's hat, next to dark brown background with white text.

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

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cow chef hat text
  • I LUV COWS pixel art
  • playful cow text
  • cow tongue chef hat

Objects

  • chef's hat

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro video game

Subjects

  • cow

Visible Text

  • I LUV COWS!!!

Wordwall

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  • black ears
  • brown nose
  • white chef hat
  • orange-brown trim
  • red tongue
  • dark brown background
  • white text
  • I LUV COWS!!!
  • pixel art
  • playful expression
  • retro font
  • low-resolution
  • solid background
  • text on right
  • cow on left
  • blocky letters
  • limited color palette
  • open mouth
  • chef's hat
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 14:03 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
20070903085652618349702
Archive entry
20070903085652618349702.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 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#20070903085652618349702.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070903085652618349702.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016