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Four- of cityscape and text images with pixelated rendering, showing Los Angeles skyline, New York City skyline, Hollywood sign, and partial text

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Four- of cityscape and text images with pixelated rendering, showing Los Angeles skyline, New York City skyline, Hollywood sign, and partial text

Four- of cityscape and text images with pixelated rendering, showing Los Angeles skyline, New York City skyline, Hollywood sign, and partial text. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy ico…

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Style

  • text overlay

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  • i love LA
  • WHY LOVE NY?
  • when that's LA
  • OLLY WO

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200801031750281551469586
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/96/962130bb70739e461a3069ecff0874c41067be8e3e613c12c7149e8c41ac9686.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
962130bb70739e46
SHA-256
962130bb70739e461a3069ecff0874c41067be8e3e613c12c7149e8c41ac9686
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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
200801031750281551469586
Archive entry
200801031750281551469586.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:08 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#200801031750281551469586.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200801031750281551469586.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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