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Red background with repeated black text 'Sammy' and 'Cowhey' in , white pixel hearts appear below 'Cowhey'

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Red background with repeated black text 'Sammy' and 'Cowhey' in , white pixel hearts appear below 'Cowhey'

Red background with repeated black text 'Sammy' and 'Cowhey' in , white pixel hearts appear below 'Cowhey'. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Animation Summary

No visible animation changes observed across chronological observations; static image with red background, black text, white pixel hearts, and gray rectangle.

Composition

  • text
  • bottom-right gray area

Dense Caption

Red background with black pixel text 'Sammy' and 'Cowhey' arranged in a grid pattern. Three rows of 'Sammy' text appear above three rows of 'Cowhey' text. White pixel hearts are positioned below the 'Cowhey' text rows. The bottom-left corner shows partial 'Sammy' and 'Cowhey' text with a white pixel heart. A gray rectangular area occupies the bottom-right corner. Text is rendered in a pixelated, retro digital style. The image contains no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Red background with repeated black text 'Sammy' and 'Cowhey' in , white pixel hearts appear below 'Cowhey'

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

  • red background black text white hearts
  • Sammy Cowhey text
  • pixelated text hearts gray rectangle
  • red background Sammy Cowhey hearts
  • Sammy Cowhey white hearts
  • text red background white hearts
  • Cowhey Sammy text hearts
  • Sammy Cowhey text red background

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation changes observed
  • quarantined description: Red background with repeated black text 'Sammy' and 'Cowhey' in grid layout, white pixel hearts appear below 'Cowhey' rows.
  • quarantined wordwall: text rows
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: text grid red background white hearts
  • quarantined retrieval: Sammy Cowhey white hearts grid
  • quarantined retrieval: Sammy Cowhey text grid

Visible Text

  • Sammy
  • Cowhey

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black pixel text
  • 'Sammy' text
  • 'Cowhey' text
  • white pixel hearts
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated style
  • text
  • bottom-right gray area

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20110707021841581193150
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
340 bytes
Motion
Animated (7 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/fd/fd7848a986dd24e63e82bd5ff2f3cde30e86d3c83f2547c7ce076fa64e21336c.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:08 UTC
Archive ID
fd7848a986dd24e6
SHA-256
fd7848a986dd24e63e82bd5ff2f3cde30e86d3c83f2547c7ce076fa64e21336c
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 20:09 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.073901

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.929447onnx/unsafe0.073901onnx/nsfw0.039429onnx/nsfl0.034472
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Red background with repeated black text 'Sammy' and 'Cowhey' in , white pixel hearts appear below 'Cowhey'

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 00:24 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,437 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 788

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • white pixel hearts (object, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)

Animation Summary

No visible animation changes observed across chronological observations; static image with red background, black text, white pixel hearts, and gray rectangle.

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • text
  • bottom-right gray area

Dense Caption

Red background with black pixel text 'Sammy' and 'Cowhey' arranged in a grid pattern. Three rows of 'Sammy' text appear above three rows of 'Cowhey' text. White pixel hearts are positioned below the 'Cowhey' text rows. The bottom-left corner shows partial 'Sammy' and 'Cowhey' text with a white pixel heart. A gray rectangular area occupies the bottom-right corner. Text is rendered in a pixelated, retro digital style. The image contains no visible animation changes across observations.

Description

  • Red background with repeated black text 'Sammy' and 'Cowhey' in , white pixel hearts appear below 'Cowhey'

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • 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

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  • Sammy Cowhey text
  • pixelated text hearts gray rectangle
  • red background Sammy Cowhey hearts
  • Sammy Cowhey white hearts
  • text red background white hearts
  • Cowhey Sammy text hearts
  • Sammy Cowhey text red background

Objects

  • white pixel hearts

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation changes observed
  • quarantined description: Red background with repeated black text 'Sammy' and 'Cowhey' in grid layout, white pixel hearts appear below 'Cowhey' rows.
  • quarantined wordwall: text rows
  • quarantined wordwall: grid layout
  • quarantined composition: text rows
  • quarantined composition: grid layout
  • quarantined retrieval: text grid red background white hearts
  • quarantined retrieval: Sammy Cowhey white hearts grid
  • quarantined retrieval: Sammy Cowhey text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Visible Text

  • Sammy
  • Cowhey

Wordwall

  • red background
  • black pixel text
  • 'Sammy' text
  • 'Cowhey' text
  • white pixel hearts
  • gray rectangle
  • pixelated style
  • text
  • bottom-right gray area
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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
20110707021841581193150
Archive entry
20110707021841581193150.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#20110707021841581193150.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20110707021841581193150.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016