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Pixelated cartoon cow with large ears and a pinkish body, positioned next to red text on a black background.

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Pixelated cartoon cow with large ears and a pinkish body, positioned next to red text on a black background.

Pixelated cartoon cow with large ears and a pinkish body, positioned next to red text on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sh…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • cow on left
  • text on right
  • two-tone background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated cartoon cow with large dark brown ears, a light brown face, and a pinkish body with darker pink patches. The cow is positioned on the left side of the image against a white background. On the right side, there is red pixelated text reading "scary" on a black background. The cow's expression appears neutral with visible eyes and a small mouth. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style typical of early 2000s internet graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon cow with large ears and a pinkish body, positioned next to red text on a black 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709031141491315690264
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • pixelated cow scary text
  • cow red text black background
  • scary cow pixel art
  • retro digital cow image
  • cow with large ears pink body
  • text scary pixelated cow
  • black background red text cow
  • cow neutral expression pixel art

Style

  • cartoon

Visible Text

  • scary

Wordwall

  • pixelated cow
  • large ears
  • pinkish body
  • red text
  • black background
  • white background
  • neutral expression
  • retro digital art
  • text "scary"

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200709031141491315690264
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
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c5/c5610f9d18da9afffcadafdbabd3666c51e48a73356e6614f802726f4135f4f6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:43 UTC
Archive ID
c5610f9d18da9aff
SHA-256
c5610f9d18da9afffcadafdbabd3666c51e48a73356e6614f802726f4135f4f6
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 26, 2026 at 09:41 UTC
Run
1349
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.002481

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 19:17 UTC
Run
1219
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagviolence0.046982falseviolence/graphic0.005533falsesexual0.000800falseself-harm0.000562falseself-harm/intent0.000223falseself-harm/instructions0.000004falseharassment0.000000falseharassment/threatening0.000000falsehate0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000falseillicit0.000000falseillicit/violent0.000000falsesexual/minors0.000000false
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:55 UTC
Run
107
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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

Pixelated cartoon cow with large ears and a pinkish body, positioned next to red text on a black background.

Reviewed
August 26, 2026 at 09:34 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,460 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,143, response 797

Review tags

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  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital art (style, 0.80)
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Colors

  • brown
  • pink
  • red
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • cow on left
  • text on right
  • two-tone background

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated cartoon cow with large dark brown ears, a light brown face, and a pinkish body with darker pink patches. The cow is positioned on the left side of the image against a white background. On the right side, there is red pixelated text reading "scary" on a black background. The cow's expression appears neutral with visible eyes and a small mouth. The image has a low-resolution, retro digital art style typical of early 2000s internet graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated cartoon cow with large ears and a pinkish body, positioned next to red text on a black 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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

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  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200709031141491315690264
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • neutral

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • cartoon
  • retro digital art

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Visible Text

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Wordwall

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  • large ears
  • pinkish body
  • red text
  • black background
  • white background
  • neutral expression
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 14:04 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)
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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
200709031141491315690264
Archive entry
200709031141491315690264.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#200709031141491315690264.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200709031141491315690264.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016