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Four cyan snowflakes with 'Merry Christmas' text on black background, each snowflake has distinct pixelated design variations.

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Four cyan snowflakes with 'Merry Christmas' text on black background, each snowflake has distinct pixelated design variations.

Four cyan snowflakes with 'Merry Christmas' text on black background, each snowflake has distinct pixelated design variations. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Arch…

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Style

  • text overlay

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  • Merry Christmas

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081224070243803530504
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8d/8d39401e86a4f4686e1dabafdb3aaef43d00e768f032cd7cb250a329257cdd19.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
8d39401e86a4f468
SHA-256
8d39401e86a4f4686e1dabafdb3aaef43d00e768f032cd7cb250a329257cdd19
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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
20081224070243803530504
Archive entry
20081224070243803530504.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:47 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#20081224070243803530504.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081224070243803530504.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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