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Black-and-white animated icon with text overlays and a repeating patterned background, showing sequential text changes across frames.

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Black-and-white animated icon with text overlays and a repeating patterned background, showing sequential text changes across frames.

Black-and-white animated icon with text overlays and a repeating patterned background, showing sequential text changes across frames. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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  • fav hello.
  • hardest good- bye
  • U took my hand said u care
  • i still care
  • ...
  • t, do you?

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200812061852041198538666
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
10.8 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/0c/0c93ca2fb0ed19bd62bc27fc2f5ff816fb29ab1ce4bc78025024e6e014f7c4b3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
0c93ca2fb0ed19bd
SHA-256
0c93ca2fb0ed19bd62bc27fc2f5ff816fb29ab1ce4bc78025024e6e014f7c4b3
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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
200812061852041198538666
Archive entry
200812061852041198538666.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:45 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#200812061852041198538666.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200812061852041198538666.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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