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Animated icon with repeated anime-style character faces, text overlays changing across frames, and a central dark vertical element.

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Animated icon with repeated anime-style character faces, text overlays changing across frames, and a central dark vertical element.

Animated icon with repeated anime-style character faces, text overlays changing across frames, and a central dark vertical element. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080927161529429631938
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/80/805eb97b7557fe004716001e3d7051278983fda71056e209817f9fc66af19e1d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
805eb97b7557fe00
SHA-256
805eb97b7557fe004716001e3d7051278983fda71056e209817f9fc66af19e1d
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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
20080927161529429631938
Archive entry
20080927161529429631938.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#20080927161529429631938.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080927161529429631938.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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