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Yellow background with red repeating pattern, black text in white boxes, two of text with identical right-side text across both

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Yellow background with red repeating pattern, black text in white boxes, two of text with identical right-side text across both

Yellow background with red repeating pattern, black text in white boxes, two of text with identical right-side text across both. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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  • just a small town girl
  • livin in a lonely world
  • took the midnight train going anywhere
  • just a city boy
  • born and raised in south detroit

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090526131603873039378
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
9.1 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/26/26bafbc06e73774732b46e9c7cba462b14c64cb8efb39f46cae296efe7b8adeb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
26bafbc06e737747
SHA-256
26bafbc06e73774732b46e9c7cba462b14c64cb8efb39f46cae296efe7b8adeb
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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
20090526131603873039378
Archive entry
20090526131603873039378.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:58 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#20090526131603873039378.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090526131603873039378.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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