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Animated icon with four showing text and heart symbols transitioning from blue to red, then to cartoon characters and a green heart

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Animated icon with four showing text and heart symbols transitioning from blue to red, then to cartoon characters and a green heart

Animated icon with four showing text and heart symbols transitioning from blue to red, then to cartoon characters and a green heart. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Subjects

  • heart shapes

Visible Text

  • I Thought We Were Together
  • But It Turned Out To Be Never
  • Until You Said...

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200811171603181800365287
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.7 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/af/afab48d38e04538199cd55a3b9d52c97ff77011e787a28c55b0ebb6dcc002b13.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
afab48d38e045381
SHA-256
afab48d38e04538199cd55a3b9d52c97ff77011e787a28c55b0ebb6dcc002b13
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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
200811171603181800365287
Archive entry
200811171603181800365287.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 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#200811171603181800365287.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200811171603181800365287.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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