Permanent icon record
Animated pixel art displays evolving text about lying to oneself, with red heart symbols appearing and multiplying beneath the phrase "BUT I WAS LYING TO MYSELF" on a white background.
Animated pixel art displays evolving text about lying to oneself, with red heart symbols appearing and multiplying beneath the phrase "BUT I WAS LYING TO MYSELF" on a white backgr…
Source & archive date
- Added to archive
- July 8, 2026
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival
- Source title
- MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
- Category
- myoldicons / quotes / assorted
- Era
- Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
- Observed
- July 8, 2026 at 09:57 UTC
Wayback CDX Iconator icons GIF Captures
- Source title
- ICONATOR_e25cf86321bdddf59fb55501bca8df0d
- Category
- 189
- Era
- Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
- Observed
- July 8, 2026 at 11:37 UTC
Wayback Buddy-Icons.info Remaining Category Portal Shard
- Source title
- Character icons for AIM, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo
- Category
- aim icons / character / page1 / character icons for aim msn myspace and yahoo
- Era
- Mid-2000s AIM Portal
- Observed
- July 10, 2026 at 22:30 UTC
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs
- Source title
- 33143
- Category
- img / icon
- Era
- Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
- Observed
- July 11, 2026 at 22:55 UTC
Technical archive details
- Format
- GIF
- Dimensions
- 48×48 pixels
- File size
- 6.8 KB
- Motion
- Animated (57 frames)
- Added to archive
- July 8, 2026
- Relative path
- icons/d5/d5afc1f289e6a088f703d8e798cf10621f171cd0b56be1a5ec19acdfa96e59fe.gif
- Media type
- image/gif
- Archive ID
- d5afc1f289e6a088
- SHA-256
- d5afc1f289e6a088f703d8e798cf10621f171cd0b56be1a5ec19acdfa96e59fe
Full source records (4)
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival (myoldicons-originalicons)
- Kind
- myoldicons-api
- Era
- Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
- Type
- current recovered OriginalIcons API
- Category
- myoldicons / quotes / assorted
- Title
- MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
- Alt
- 1116800605_4535021.gif | azn19girl once i tried to count the many ways you could make me smile | animated | myoldicons id 186610
- Observed
- July 8, 2026 at 09:57 UTC
- Rights
- mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
- Slice
- recovered large-scale AIM icon and away-message archive with category, subcategory, filename, keyword, and animation metadata
Original: https://myoldicons.com/icons/Quotes/Assorted/1117736893_190606508.gif Download: https://myoldicons.com/icons/Quotes/Assorted/1117736893_190606508.gif Page: https://myoldicons.com/api/icons?category=quotes
Wayback CDX Iconator icons GIF Captures (wayback-iconator-icons-gifs)
- Kind
- wayback-cdx
- Era
- Mid-2000s Mega Gallery
- Type
- Wayback historical mega-gallery crawl
- Category
- 189
- Alt
- ICONATOR_e25cf86321bdddf59fb55501bca8df0d
- Observed
- July 8, 2026 at 11:37 UTC
- Rights
- mixed copyright; research/reference only by default
- Slice
- Iconator plural icons asset host with broad user-submitted GIF captures
Original: http://icons.iconator.com/189/ICONATOR_e25cf86321bdddf59fb55501bca8df0d.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20060310111140id_/http://icons.iconator.com:80/189/ICONATOR_e25cf86321bdddf59fb55501bca8df0d.gif
Wayback Buddy-Icons.info Remaining Category Portal Shard (wayback-buddy-icons-info-remaining-categories-portal)
- Kind
- static-gallery
- Era
- Mid-2000s AIM Portal
- Type
- Internet Archive preserved categorized AIM icon portal
- Category
- aim icons / character / page1 / character icons for aim msn myspace and yahoo
- Title
- Character icons for AIM, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo
- Alt
- But I Was Lying To Myself
- Observed
- July 10, 2026 at 22:30 UTC
- Rights
- mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
- Slice
- remaining AIM portal categories spanning identity, emotion, school, holidays, sports, symbols, and everyday culture
Original: http://www.buddy-icons.info/img/icon/33143.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20080106214606id_/http://www.buddy-icons.info/img/icon/33143.gif Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20080106214606id_/http://www.buddy-icons.info/aim-icons/But_I_Was_Lying_To_Myself.html
Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs (wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs)
- Kind
- wayback-cdx
- Era
- Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
- Type
- Wayback direct native asset enumeration
- Category
- img / icon
- Alt
- 33143
- Observed
- July 11, 2026 at 22:55 UTC
- Rights
- mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
- Slice
- native Buddy-Icons.info AIM icon assets spanning user submissions, fandom, identity, relationships, school, sports, music, movies, and celebrity culture
Original: http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/33143.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20101027190737id_/http://buddy-icons.info/img/icon/33143.gif