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Animated icon with yellow smiley face on blue background, text overlays change from 'try to be different' to 'duhh different' with visible text transitions.

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Animated icon with yellow smiley face on blue background, text overlays change from 'try to be different' to 'duhh different' with visible text transitions.

Animated icon with yellow smiley face on blue background, text overlays change from 'try to be different' to 'duhh different' with visible text transitions. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Style

  • cartoon

Subjects

  • smiley face

Visible Text

  • try to be different
  • duhh different

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080709191258389902594
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.9 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5b/5b19ce91a5d463458174f8848ad95cd617e7287e098a83b4a1cc22be002ce9d4.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
5b19ce91a5d46345
SHA-256
5b19ce91a5d463458174f8848ad95cd617e7287e098a83b4a1cc22be002ce9d4
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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
20080709191258389902594
Archive entry
20080709191258389902594.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#20080709191258389902594.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080709191258389902594.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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