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A static pixel art image with a bright sun-like shape on the left, blue background, and text elements including 'a cow' and ':('.

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A static pixel art image with a bright sun-like shape on the left, blue background, and text elements including 'a cow' and ':('.

A static pixel art image with a bright sun-like shape on the left, blue background, and text elements including 'a cow' and ':('. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • top-left sun shape
  • solid cyan background
  • three text placements

Dense Caption

The image is divided into two main sections: the top-left contains a large, blurry, white-yellow starburst or sun shape against a light blue background. The rest of the image has a solid cyan background. Pixelated black text appears in three locations: 'a cow' at the top-right (with an initial lowercase 'a'), 'eieio' along the bottom-left edge, and ':(' on the right side near the center. All text uses a blocky, retro digital font style.

Description

  • A static pixel art image with a bright sun-like shape on the left, blue background, and text elements including 'a cow' and ':('.

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

  • sun shape cyan background
  • a cow eieio :(
  • pixel art text sun

Visible Text

  • a cow
  • eieio
  • :(

Visually Supported Entities

  • a cow
  • eieio
  • :(

Wordwall

  • sun shape
  • light blue background
  • cyan background
  • pixelated text
  • a cow
  • eieio
  • :(
  • blocky font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806011928381337239230
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC

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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/d0/d07c625a50575814ed2c726de4fa1390481d47ca52e3e0289be69c60b566bf9c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 UTC
Archive ID
d07c625a50575814
SHA-256
d07c625a50575814ed2c726de4fa1390481d47ca52e3e0289be69c60b566bf9c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:45 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.103483

OpenAI category scores

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A static pixel art image with a bright sun-like shape on the left, blue background, and text elements including 'a cow' and ':('.

Reviewed
August 16, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Run
59
Version
v5
Elapsed
12,785 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 599

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • cyan (color, 0.80)
  • light blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • sun like shape (subject, 0.80)
  • text elements (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • light blue
  • cyan
  • white
  • yellow
  • black

Composition

  • top-left sun shape
  • solid cyan background
  • three text placements

Dense Caption

The image is divided into two main sections: the top-left contains a large, blurry, white-yellow starburst or sun shape against a light blue background. The rest of the image has a solid cyan background. Pixelated black text appears in three locations: 'a cow' at the top-right (with an initial lowercase 'a'), 'eieio' along the bottom-left edge, and ':(' on the right side near the center. All text uses a blocky, retro digital font style.

Description

  • A static pixel art image with a bright sun-like shape on the left, blue background, and text elements including 'a cow' and ':('.

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

Mood

  • neutral
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sun shape cyan background
  • a cow eieio :(
  • pixel art text sun

Style

  • pixel art
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • sun-like shape
  • text elements

Visible Text

  • a cow
  • eieio
  • :(

Visually Supported Entities

  • a cow
  • eieio
  • :(

Wordwall

  • sun shape
  • light blue background
  • cyan background
  • pixelated text
  • a cow
  • eieio
  • :(
  • blocky font
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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
200806011928381337239230
Archive entry
200806011928381337239230.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:28 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#200806011928381337239230.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806011928381337239230.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016