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A pixelated smiley face icon with a blue-gray gradient, surrounded by smaller colorful icons on a red background with text.

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A pixelated smiley face icon with a blue-gray gradient, surrounded by smaller colorful icons on a red background with text.

A pixelated smiley face icon with a blue-gray gradient, surrounded by smaller colorful icons on a red background with text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Subjects

  • smiley face icon

Visible Text

  • He's the reason for the teardrops on my
  • on a wishing star.
  • guitar. The only thing that keeps me =]=]=]=
  • wishing
  • on a

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071013121414941763447
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/12/12cc9f461b00c38c28876ddb35b56ae530a101738cc3f594b6e4d6094654cd52.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
12cc9f461b00c38c
SHA-256
12cc9f461b00c38c28876ddb35b56ae530a101738cc3f594b6e4d6094654cd52
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
20071013121414941763447
Archive entry
20071013121414941763447.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:50 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#20071013121414941763447.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071013121414941763447.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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