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Purple stormy background with lightning bolts and black silhouettes of trees, displaying four words in white text with black outlines.

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Purple stormy background with lightning bolts and black silhouettes of trees, displaying four words in white text with black outlines.

Purple stormy background with lightning bolts and black silhouettes of trees, displaying four words in white text with black outlines. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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  • house
  • of
  • night
  • fan

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091213131924637865186
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b3/b3c7ce0dce1db224a43b3a94aba8cbdaf78a48dca0c2771597ed5ef96fd75c71.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
b3c7ce0dce1db224
SHA-256
b3c7ce0dce1db224a43b3a94aba8cbdaf78a48dca0c2771597ed5ef96fd75c71
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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
20091213131924637865186
Archive entry
20091213131924637865186.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:04 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#20091213131924637865186.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091213131924637865186.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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