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Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on white background, red text '6B' and 'ARE THE BEST!' on green background.

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Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on white background, red text '6B' and 'ARE THE BEST!' on green background.

Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on white background, red text '6B' and 'ARE THE BEST!' on green background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • cow head on white background
  • text on green background

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 text '6B' in top-right corner on green background. Red text 'ARE THE BEST!' in bottom-left and bottom-right corners on green background. Green background occupies right half and bottom half of image. Image has low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering.

Description

  • Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on white background, red text '6B' and 'ARE THE BEST!' on green background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cow head pixel art
  • 6B ARE THE BEST!
  • green background red text
  • pixelated cow nose

Style

  • dithering

Visible Text

  • 6B
  • ARE THE BEST!

Wordwall

  • cow head
  • black and white patches
  • brown nose
  • black ears
  • brown eyes
  • red text
  • 6B
  • ARE THE BEST!
  • green background
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • dithering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201104051810201347544683
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/bf/bf56c4175ef1c052e9ec5cab21b44c02f0374cef9892ee7ecf39d2a20b757ea8.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC
Archive ID
bf56c4175ef1c052
SHA-256
bf56c4175ef1c052e9ec5cab21b44c02f0374cef9892ee7ecf39d2a20b757ea8
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:36 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.121335

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on white background, red text '6B' and 'ARE THE BEST!' on green background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 23:43 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,646 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 576

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • dithering (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • cow head (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • green
  • red
  • white
  • black
  • brown

Composition

  • cow head on white background
  • text on green background

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 text '6B' in top-right corner on green background. Red text 'ARE THE BEST!' in bottom-left and bottom-right corners on green background. Green background occupies right half and bottom half of image. Image has low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering.

Description

  • Pixelated cow head with black and white patches on white background, red text '6B' and 'ARE THE BEST!' on green background.

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cow head pixel art
  • 6B ARE THE BEST!
  • green background red text
  • pixelated cow nose

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithering

Subjects

  • cow head

Visible Text

  • 6B
  • ARE THE BEST!

Wordwall

  • cow head
  • black and white patches
  • brown nose
  • black ears
  • brown eyes
  • red text
  • 6B
  • ARE THE BEST!
  • green background
  • white background
  • pixelated
  • dithering
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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
201104051810201347544683
Archive entry
201104051810201347544683.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 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#201104051810201347544683.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201104051810201347544683.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016