![A static pixel art icon featuring a bright pink heart split vertically with blue text overlaid reading "everyone loves a blonde =]" on white background.](/image/98ec107194e9d5018182bd2a012898efc21866276120b9aba623bac936d4b3c8){kind=small}
![Four display 'I [heart] YOU' variations with pink hearts, purple text, and a small heart detail](/image/9a8ee4dc3f21a9bcaaf5f1e7df58ac54a2be3cacc896d45cefbe0c0f21fa1840)
![Two side-by-side animated frames showing hands holding with text below each frame reading "I [heart] him" in pixelated font, one heart black and the other pink.](/image/9ab534e98b01db6c3835d4e59e6208611edf2d2986ea1e4c21b5208e353d9d66)
Preserving the tiny pictures that made the internet personal.
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Browse 14,251 preserved Affectionate AIM buddy icons gathered from 333 source collections. This automatically maintained collection currently includes 13,008 animated icons and 14,251 icons with searchable visual descriptions.
A language of tiny pictures
A picture barely 50 pixels wide, sitting beside an AIM screen name, could announce a mood, a fandom, an inside joke, or who someone wanted to be that day.
Read the short historyRecovered from the early web
Buddy icons survive in old directories, fan sites, downloadable packs, and web archives. The archive preserves the original files, groups known copies, and records where each one was found.
How the archive works