Buddy Icon Archive Preserving the tiny pictures that made the internet personal.
A static image with black text over a background of repeating colorful smiley face icons and multicolored 'CE' text patterns.

Permanent icon record

A static image with black text over a background of repeating colorful smiley face icons and multicolored 'CE' text patterns.

A static image with black text over a background of repeating colorful smiley face icons and multicolored 'CE' text patterns. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archi…

Download original

About this icon

Style

Color

Source terms

Visible Text

  • there wa
  • fun
  • times...
  • and then
  • but this
  • school
  • comes
  • Bad
  • but they
  • end
  • this time s scatier Fs Middle School

Explore related icons

Browse all categories · How source collections are preserved

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200807311939281074291930
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
8.8 KB
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/6c/6c9d5ba5ce8e06b07ddbe783e463075a74839185b3fa3533c31aab8e4eb340af.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
6c9d5ba5ce8e06b0
SHA-256
6c9d5ba5ce8e06b07ddbe783e463075a74839185b3fa3533c31aab8e4eb340af
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
200807311939281074291930
Archive entry
200807311939281074291930.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:35 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#200807311939281074291930.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200807311939281074291930.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

View the complete metadata record (JSON)