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Four pink text-based designs on white background with floral accents, each containing distinct phrases in pixelated font.

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Four pink text-based designs on white background with floral accents, each containing distinct phrases in pixelated font.

Four pink text-based designs on white background with floral accents, each containing distinct phrases in pixelated font. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Objects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • Begging to hear your voice
  • Tell me you love me too
  • I'd rather just be alone
  • If I know that I can have you

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080815123049196051098
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b1/b16cf8de529a2add513685de99a79d7be9d0ff961f8b24d8194d43fcf281b603.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
b16cf8de529a2add
SHA-256
b16cf8de529a2add513685de99a79d7be9d0ff961f8b24d8194d43fcf281b603
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
20080815123049196051098
Archive entry
20080815123049196051098.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:36 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#20080815123049196051098.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080815123049196051098.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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