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Black background with white butterfly silhouettes and cyan text reading "sometimes dont u just wanna fly away" in pixelated font.

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Black background with white butterfly silhouettes and cyan text reading "sometimes dont u just wanna fly away" in pixelated font.

Black background with white butterfly silhouettes and cyan text reading "sometimes dont u just wanna fly away" in pixelated font. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet A…

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  • sometimes
  • dont u just
  • wanna
  • fly away

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080717202336535310456
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/22/22f03fa23458cd89269bf44b2a2729980a5b185ed39c14a5928bd3dc3055caa7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
22f03fa23458cd89
SHA-256
22f03fa23458cd89269bf44b2a2729980a5b185ed39c14a5928bd3dc3055caa7
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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
20080717202336535310456
Archive entry
20080717202336535310456.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:34 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#20080717202336535310456.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080717202336535310456.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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