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Yellow rubber duck with blue eye and orange beak on light gray background, surrounded by pixelated text in orange font.

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Yellow rubber duck with blue eye and orange beak on light gray background, surrounded by pixelated text in orange font.

Yellow rubber duck with blue eye and orange beak on light gray background, surrounded by pixelated text in orange font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Fra…

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  • Boys are like rubber ducks
  • no matter how many times you try and drown them
  • They just keep on floating back up

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710051350152053081385
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/14/14625c518da7bb1bdf28522ee10f4d605d0820f9c8e3e7d59ddb915ef63f9194.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
14625c518da7bb1b
SHA-256
14625c518da7bb1bdf28522ee10f4d605d0820f9c8e3e7d59ddb915ef63f9194
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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
200710051350152053081385
Archive entry
200710051350152053081385.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:48 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#200710051350152053081385.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710051350152053081385.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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