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Animated pixel art character with green shell, blue headband, yellow belly, and red feet, overlaid with red, green, and purple text blocks.

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Animated pixel art character with green shell, blue headband, yellow belly, and red feet, overlaid with red, green, and purple text blocks.

Animated pixel art character with green shell, blue headband, yellow belly, and red feet, overlaid with red, green, and purple text blocks. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Style

  • text overlay

Subjects

  • cat
  • dog

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  • m so c

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
201001171843171400862587
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.2 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/51/5161ea7890260e3ec622da5701e1d7cce78926630276ddc3565b07f80ba9d174.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
5161ea7890260e3e
SHA-256
5161ea7890260e3ec622da5701e1d7cce78926630276ddc3565b07f80ba9d174
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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
201001171843171400862587
Archive entry
201001171843171400862587.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#201001171843171400862587.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#201001171843171400862587.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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