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Four identical red heart-shaped icons with white text reading "like a heart needs to beat" surrounded by black background and repeated "I need you" text.

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Four identical red heart-shaped icons with white text reading "like a heart needs to beat" surrounded by black background and repeated "I need you" text.

Four identical red heart-shaped icons with white text reading "like a heart needs to beat" surrounded by black background and repeated "I need you" text. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM bu…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Style

  • 8-bit graphics

Subjects

  • heart

Visible Text

  • I need you
  • like a heart
  • needs
  • to beat

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090314132245735941510
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8c/8cc6520e751d766a39232494f64552b44c81e026f2482a0ae7aa626b78f7a8d2.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
8cc6520e751d766a
SHA-256
8cc6520e751d766a39232494f64552b44c81e026f2482a0ae7aa626b78f7a8d2
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
20090314132245735941510
Archive entry
20090314132245735941510.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:54 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#20090314132245735941510.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090314132245735941510.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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