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Pixelated text on a cyan and magenta checkerboard background with visible lines, showing repeated phrases in dark brown letters

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Pixelated text on a cyan and magenta checkerboard background with visible lines, showing repeated phrases in dark brown letters

Pixelated text on a cyan and magenta checkerboard background with visible lines, showing repeated phrases in dark brown letters. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Ar…

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Visible Text

  • i love to
  • be
  • DIFFERENT!
  • be out of
  • the box

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200904110730201390791507
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/32/32f38cd1db6d45017f67c7bf595a4527fa4160d3e8fee9b7f539ca06f5a33e6b.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
32f38cd1db6d4501
SHA-256
32f38cd1db6d45017f67c7bf595a4527fa4160d3e8fee9b7f539ca06f5a33e6b
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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
200904110730201390791507
Archive entry
200904110730201390791507.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#200904110730201390791507.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200904110730201390791507.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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