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Pixel art animation of two characters near a Christmas tree, with text bubbles and background changes including a phone, snowman, cars, and dark scenes.

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Pixel art animation of two characters near a Christmas tree, with text bubbles and background changes including a phone, snowman, cars, and dark scenes.

Pixel art animation of two characters near a Christmas tree, with text bubbles and background changes including a phone, snowman, cars, and dark scenes. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM bud…

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Action

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Actions

  • background changes from green field to dark scenes to yellow cars on road

Style

  • 8-bit style

Visible Text

  • A KEY ??
  • I DON'T GET IT
  • IT ??
  • MAYBE YOU
  • SHOULD
  • OUTSIDE...
  • You Wish

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Added to archive
July 9, 2026

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures

Source title
u0cba4dc2d1-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / u
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:53 UTC

Original record Source download

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures Relaxed

Source title
u0cba4dc2d1-IMBUDDY
Category
buddyicons / u
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 19:09 UTC

Original record Source download

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.1 KB
Motion
Animated (26 frames)
Added to archive
July 9, 2026
Relative path
icons/cd/cd8014ce7d05db29dac78a4f7724e0119915dee76c694a60f4af0f81d2b7ef28.gif
Media type
image/gif
Archive ID
cd8014ce7d05db29
SHA-256
cd8014ce7d05db29dac78a4f7724e0119915dee76c694a60f4af0f81d2b7ef28
Full source records (2)

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures (wayback-buddy-icons-us-domain-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl
Category
buddyicons / u
Alt
u0cba4dc2d1-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 9, 2026 at 22:53 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
AIM-era dedicated buddy-icon portal material from a small domain crawl

Original: http://www.buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/u/u0cba4dc2d1-IMBUDDY.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20070219205741id_/http://www.buddy-icons.us:80/buddyicons/u/u0cba4dc2d1-IMBUDDY.gif

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.us GIF Captures Relaxed (wayback-buddy-icons-us-domain-gifs-relaxed)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Buddy Icon Portal
Type
Wayback historical buddy-icon domain crawl relaxed-size pass
Category
buddyicons / u
Alt
u0cba4dc2d1-IMBUDDY
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 19:09 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
relaxed-size AIM-era buddy-icon portal material, including narrow/tall and larger avatar-format GIF candidates

Original: http://www.buddy-icons.us/buddyicons/u/u0cba4dc2d1-IMBUDDY.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20070219205741id_/http://www.buddy-icons.us:80/buddyicons/u/u0cba4dc2d1-IMBUDDY.gif

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