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Animated icon shows two cartoon characters with brown hair and red accents against a textured background, text changes sequentially across frames.

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Animated icon shows two cartoon characters with brown hair and red accents against a textured background, text changes sequentially across frames.

Animated icon shows two cartoon characters with brown hair and red accents against a textured background, text changes sequentially across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy ico…

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Source terms

Style

  • cartoon

Visible Text

  • ICAN
  • RIDE MY BIKE
  • WITH NO
  • HANDLEBARS

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080827171235177820838
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6c/6c054e81c7189d9af796d7c69b27784c16e5df4c4748bae08ecf687099275b27.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
6c054e81c7189d9a
SHA-256
6c054e81c7189d9af796d7c69b27784c16e5df4c4748bae08ecf687099275b27
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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
20080827171235177820838
Archive entry
20080827171235177820838.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#20080827171235177820838.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080827171235177820838.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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