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Green background with white pixelated text and a pink heart symbol, presenting a binary choice between friendship and love.

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Green background with white pixelated text and a pink heart symbol, presenting a binary choice between friendship and love.

Green background with white pixelated text and a pink heart symbol, presenting a binary choice between friendship and love. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Objects

  • heart symbol

Subjects

  • heart symbol

Visible Text

  • do i
  • be friendly
  • with him?
  • or
  • love him?

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806181458361013616575
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
302 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f9/f9503c786f6667b6e849fcf6b204a596ded06df1d2658b9621c67b2b4f5f4943.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
f9503c786f6667b6
SHA-256
f9503c786f6667b6e849fcf6b204a596ded06df1d2658b9621c67b2b4f5f4943
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
200806181458361013616575
Archive entry
200806181458361013616575.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 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#200806181458361013616575.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806181458361013616575.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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