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Pixelated text repeats across a black background with red heart accents on 'boyfriend' and gray bottom-right corner.

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Pixelated text repeats across a black background with red heart accents on 'boyfriend' and gray bottom-right corner.

Pixelated text repeats across a black background with red heart accents on 'boyfriend' and gray bottom-right corner. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Franks…

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  • heart symbol

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  • boy known my whole life or My boyfriend
  • boyfriend

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712041513011127549189
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
415 bytes
Motion
Animated (7 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/54/543d7250ed875dc7bad81a799abd2404e5a573e9b96143ca92f3faf952520b69.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
543d7250ed875dc7
SHA-256
543d7250ed875dc7bad81a799abd2404e5a573e9b96143ca92f3faf952520b69
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
200712041513011127549189
Archive entry
200712041513011127549189.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:02 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#200712041513011127549189.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712041513011127549189.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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