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Pixelated icon with blue text and symbols on a split background, featuring a green star in one view and pink star in another.

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Pixelated icon with blue text and symbols on a split background, featuring a green star in one view and pink star in another.

Pixelated icon with blue text and symbols on a split background, featuring a green star in one view and pink star in another. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

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Color

Source terms

Objects

  • five-pointed star

Style

  • 8-bit graphics

Visible Text

  • <(^_^)>
  • Lol
  • Stop drop N roll

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080325172744748642500
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
815 bytes
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/42/42679910bb799a431cd99d4b5f388819b8725a1cf30ab5b912252d198a7a16fc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
42679910bb799a43
SHA-256
42679910bb799a431cd99d4b5f388819b8725a1cf30ab5b912252d198a7a16fc
Full source records (1)

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
20080325172744748642500
Archive entry
20080325172744748642500.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:20 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#20080325172744748642500.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080325172744748642500.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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