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A static digital image with a blue background and green checkered pattern, displaying repeated text in blue and green pixelated font.

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A static digital image with a blue background and green checkered pattern, displaying repeated text in blue and green pixelated font.

A static digital image with a blue background and green checkered pattern, displaying repeated text in blue and green pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Intern…

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  • Friends areFriends areFriends areFriends are
  • carzy and weird and weird and weird and weird
  • like like like like
  • this icon!!!!!!this icon!!!!!!this icon!!!!!!this icon!!!!!!

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090415155044534838069
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.6 KB
Motion
Animated (12 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/74/746bc7c25cfbb4e896333628d6dd12bed52652ef3cbf2fb56a1b3a577cc2c6e0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
746bc7c25cfbb4e8
SHA-256
746bc7c25cfbb4e896333628d6dd12bed52652ef3cbf2fb56a1b3a577cc2c6e0
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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
20090415155044534838069
Archive entry
20090415155044534838069.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:56 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#20090415155044534838069.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090415155044534838069.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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