Buddy Icon Archive Preserving the tiny pictures that made the internet personal.
Pixelated text repeats across a black background with light blue characters and small star symbols, forming three vertical of identical phrases

Permanent icon record

Pixelated text repeats across a black background with light blue characters and small star symbols, forming three vertical of identical phrases

Pixelated text repeats across a black background with light blue characters and small star symbols, forming three vertical of identical phrases. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon…

Download original

About this icon

Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Visible Text

  • how can I show you how much you mean to me...

Explore related icons

Browse all categories · How source collections are preserved

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20081116080702611729524
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:43 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
680 bytes
Motion
Animated (6 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f3/f3917a75d9a8c4dafc414818245df41485d521cc6c202c61eee47f736795d7c0.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
f3917a75d9a8c4da
SHA-256
f3917a75d9a8c4dafc414818245df41485d521cc6c202c61eee47f736795d7c0
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
20081116080702611729524
Archive entry
20081116080702611729524.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#20081116080702611729524.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20081116080702611729524.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

View the complete metadata record (JSON)