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A static icon with a beige background featuring four distinct text phrases and sun-like symbols, each phrase in a light brown font.

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A static icon with a beige background featuring four distinct text phrases and sun-like symbols, each phrase in a light brown font.

A static icon with a beige background featuring four distinct text phrases and sun-like symbols, each phrase in a light brown font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Objects

  • question mark
  • <3 symbol

Style

  • text-based icon

Visible Text

  • nothing
  • like
  • ?
  • seashore
  • rub
  • <3 cross
  • country

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080201140051754972934
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
5 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a7/a782edc2a22bdfd929da0740fdbac0226acfa006c386fe3f021f1a403611eb1d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
a782edc2a22bdfd9
SHA-256
a782edc2a22bdfd929da0740fdbac0226acfa006c386fe3f021f1a403611eb1d
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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
20080201140051754972934
Archive entry
20080201140051754972934.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:12 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#20080201140051754972934.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080201140051754972934.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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