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Pixelated cow head with black-and-white patches on white background, purple background with text "cows are fun!" in white pixelated font.

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Pixelated cow head with black-and-white patches on white background, purple background with text "cows are fun!" in white pixelated font.

Pixelated cow head with black-and-white patches on white background, purple background with text "cows are fun!" in white pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from In…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • cow head on white background
  • text on purple background
  • text positioned top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right

Dense Caption

Pixelated cow head with black-and-white patches on white background; cow has brown nose, pinkish face, and brown eyes; cow's mouth is open with tongue visible; purple background; white pixelated text "cows" at top right, "are" at bottom left, "fun!" at bottom right; text is in a blocky, retro digital font; cow's ears are black with brown inner details; cow's head is slightly tilted; image has low-resolution, 8-bit style rendering; no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated cow head with black-and-white patches on white background, purple background with text "cows are fun!" in white pixelated font.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • cow head pixelated
  • cows are fun text
  • purple background cow
  • 8-bit cow text
  • tongue visible cow
  • retro digital cow
  • open mouth cow
  • black-and-white cow patches

Visible Text

  • cows
  • are
  • fun!

Wordwall

  • cow head
  • black-and-white patches
  • brown nose
  • pinkish face
  • brown eyes
  • tongue visible
  • purple background
  • white pixelated text
  • cows
  • are
  • fun!
  • 8-bit style
  • low-resolution
  • tongue
  • open mouth
  • cow ears
  • brown inner ears
  • slightly tilted head
  • retro digital font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091001164026831804311
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 16:02 UTC
Archive ID
de0a57b8c55c8e1c
SHA-256
de0a57b8c55c8e1c6901b353d94a20e954364540e10229df9bed6a270108da01
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:52 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.114820

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated cow head with black-and-white patches on white background, purple background with text "cows are fun!" in white pixelated font.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 18:34 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,654 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 702

Review tags

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  • pink (color, 0.80)
  • purple (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • humorous (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • cow head (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • white
  • purple
  • black
  • brown
  • pink

Composition

  • cow head on white background
  • text on purple background
  • text positioned top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right

Dense Caption

Pixelated cow head with black-and-white patches on white background; cow has brown nose, pinkish face, and brown eyes; cow's mouth is open with tongue visible; purple background; white pixelated text "cows" at top right, "are" at bottom left, "fun!" at bottom right; text is in a blocky, retro digital font; cow's ears are black with brown inner details; cow's head is slightly tilted; image has low-resolution, 8-bit style rendering; no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

  • Pixelated cow head with black-and-white patches on white background, purple background with text "cows are fun!" in white pixelated font.

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • cows are fun text
  • purple background cow
  • 8-bit cow text
  • tongue visible cow
  • retro digital cow
  • open mouth cow
  • black-and-white cow patches

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • cow head

Visible Text

  • cows
  • are
  • fun!

Wordwall

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  • black-and-white patches
  • brown nose
  • pinkish face
  • brown eyes
  • tongue visible
  • purple background
  • white pixelated text
  • cows
  • are
  • fun!
  • 8-bit style
  • low-resolution
  • tongue
  • open mouth
  • cow ears
  • brown inner ears
  • slightly tilted head
  • retro digital 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
20091001164026831804311
Archive entry
20091001164026831804311.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:02 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#20091001164026831804311.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091001164026831804311.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016