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Animated icon with colorful heart outlines and text fragments in green, blue, pink, red, and white on a black background.

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Animated icon with colorful heart outlines and text fragments in green, blue, pink, red, and white on a black background.

Animated icon with colorful heart outlines and text fragments in green, blue, pink, red, and white on a black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • when I gave you my heart
  • I never thought
  • that you would tear it apart
  • like you did
  • .and I cried.

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200803181449551898726665
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
6.8 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/69/698174a057307f2616febbfa17bce2b7e549df2840685a6c8ed2a43e132c5422.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
698174a057307f26
SHA-256
698174a057307f2616febbfa17bce2b7e549df2840685a6c8ed2a43e132c5422
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
200803181449551898726665
Archive entry
200803181449551898726665.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:19 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#200803181449551898726665.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200803181449551898726665.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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