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Pixelated heart-shaped background with pink text reading "Live Laugh Love" and "cuz life is too short" in different frames.

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Pixelated heart-shaped background with pink text reading "Live Laugh Love" and "cuz life is too short" in different frames.

Pixelated heart-shaped background with pink text reading "Live Laugh Love" and "cuz life is too short" in different frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Style

  • text overlay

Visible Text

  • Live
  • Laugh
  • Love
  • cuz
  • life
  • is
  • too
  • short
  • to
  • be
  • cool

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708291050242020102315
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.1 KB
Motion
Animated (3 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c5/c55ca91a985e3e41a2c10d1b1a05d9f7ad83c5d86019b038695462d2a547affb.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
c55ca91a985e3e41
SHA-256
c55ca91a985e3e41a2c10d1b1a05d9f7ad83c5d86019b038695462d2a547affb
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
200708291050242020102315
Archive entry
200708291050242020102315.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:42 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#200708291050242020102315.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708291050242020102315.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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