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Cyan background with repeated pink text and small green stars, featuring the word 'College' at top and 'also sucks!' at bottom.

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Cyan background with repeated pink text and small green stars, featuring the word 'College' at top and 'also sucks!' at bottom.

Cyan background with repeated pink text and small green stars, featuring the word 'College' at top and 'also sucks!' at bottom. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arc…

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  • College
  • prepears uprepears uprepears uprepears
  • 4 the real 4 the real 4 the real 4 the real
  • world. Whichworld. Whichworld. Whichworld. Which
  • also sucks!also sucks!also sucks!also sucks!

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080712200357478827320
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/87/8775a90566e090ee8d904b8e781fae2b589c94cee606ede2ef337f802abb041d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
8775a90566e090ee
SHA-256
8775a90566e090ee8d904b8e781fae2b589c94cee606ede2ef337f802abb041d
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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
20080712200357478827320
Archive entry
20080712200357478827320.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:33 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#20080712200357478827320.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080712200357478827320.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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