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Pixelated image with colorful text blocks and star shapes on a white background, featuring phrases like "Friends Tell" and "Best Friends."

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Pixelated image with colorful text blocks and star shapes on a white background, featuring phrases like "Friends Tell" and "Best Friends."

Pixelated image with colorful text blocks and star shapes on a white background, featuring phrases like "Friends Tell" and "Best Friends.". Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Visible Text

  • Friends
  • Tell
  • Eachother
  • Everything
  • Best
  • Poke
  • You
  • With
  • Straws!!

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080523141411218693840
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.6 KB
Motion
Animated (5 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a5/a529deea03210e8f30137357fc8d944ab933fd76d15a598c32f20ca0995265ce.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
a529deea03210e8f
SHA-256
a529deea03210e8f30137357fc8d944ab933fd76d15a598c32f20ca0995265ce
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
20080523141411218693840
Archive entry
20080523141411218693840.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 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#20080523141411218693840.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080523141411218693840.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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