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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts, waving one arm while text reads I AM GAY.

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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts, waving one arm while text reads I AM GAY.

Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts, waving one arm while text reads I AM GAY. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive F…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • character on left
  • text on right
  • solid white background

Dense Caption

Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts, waving one arm while text reads I AM GAY. The character has a wide open mouth showing teeth, a greenish underbelly, and black shoes. The text is black, blocky, and pixelated, with 'I' positioned above 'AM' and 'GAY' to the right. The background is solid white.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts, waving one arm while text reads I AM GAY.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sponge character text I AM GAY
  • yellow sponge blue eyes orange shorts
  • blocky text I AM GAY
  • sponge character waving arm

Style

  • cartoon

Visible Text

  • I
  • AM
  • GAY

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge
  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • orange shorts
  • waving arm
  • black shoes
  • greenish underbelly
  • blocky text
  • I AM GAY
  • solid white background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080619104810535626907
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
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:30 UTC
Archive ID
0afa9bd63d600dc2
SHA-256
0afa9bd63d600dc296198c35db1478aeb017a4fb7689a1d82700b00da874d40e
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 10, 2026 at 08:54 UTC
Run
1281
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000502

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:54 UTC
Run
106
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Overall label
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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts, waving one arm while text reads I AM GAY.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 07:09 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,106 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 625

Review tags

  • waving (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • text (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
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  • sponge character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • waving

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • red
  • orange
  • greenish
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • character on left
  • text on right
  • solid white background

Dense Caption

Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts, waving one arm while text reads I AM GAY. The character has a wide open mouth showing teeth, a greenish underbelly, and black shoes. The text is black, blocky, and pixelated, with 'I' positioned above 'AM' and 'GAY' to the right. The background is solid white.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts, waving one arm while text reads I AM GAY.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • happy
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sponge character text I AM GAY
  • yellow sponge blue eyes orange shorts
  • blocky text I AM GAY
  • sponge character waving arm

Objects

  • text

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • sponge character

Visible Text

  • I
  • AM
  • GAY

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge
  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • orange shorts
  • waving arm
  • black shoes
  • greenish underbelly
  • blocky text
  • I AM GAY
  • solid white background
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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
20080619104810535626907
Archive entry
20080619104810535626907.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#20080619104810535626907.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080619104810535626907.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016