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Pixelated image with purple text on a black-and-white patterned background, displaying a quote about broken hearts and a boy with a give gun.

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Pixelated image with purple text on a black-and-white patterned background, displaying a quote about broken hearts and a boy with a give gun.

Pixelated image with purple text on a black-and-white patterned background, displaying a quote about broken hearts and a boy with a give gun. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon fro…

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Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • they say
  • there is
  • a boy
  • with a
  • give gun.
  • For every
  • girl with
  • a broken
  • heart
  • so
  • where's
  • mine?

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200908031528401902323091
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/31/31eb51c02e91dc0e0d0e3d7ddb95ffffc78235d09869a6c5338670b354ec29f2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
31eb51c02e91dc0e
SHA-256
31eb51c02e91dc0e0d0e3d7ddb95ffffc78235d09869a6c5338670b354ec29f2
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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
200908031528401902323091
Archive entry
200908031528401902323091.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 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#200908031528401902323091.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200908031528401902323091.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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