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Beach scene with heart drawn in sand, text overlay reading "If the sea washed away your love then it just wasn't meant to be".

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Beach scene with heart drawn in sand, text overlay reading "If the sea washed away your love then it just wasn't meant to be".

Beach scene with heart drawn in sand, text overlay reading "If the sea washed away your love then it just wasn't meant to be". Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Source terms

Style

  • text overlay

Subjects

  • heart

Visible Text

  • If the sea
  • washed
  • away your
  • love
  • then it
  • just
  • wasn't
  • meant to
  • be

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803012001581157867249
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/23/2392cdbdb2f69529150be5df0d88de9160a1d2dc4e302a7376dd3c544b75b039.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
2392cdbdb2f69529
SHA-256
2392cdbdb2f69529150be5df0d88de9160a1d2dc4e302a7376dd3c544b75b039
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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
200803012001581157867249
Archive entry
200803012001581157867249.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:17 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#200803012001581157867249.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803012001581157867249.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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