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Pixelated yellow cartoon character with large white eyes, brown shorts, and a surprised expression against black background.

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Pixelated yellow cartoon character with large white eyes, brown shorts, and a surprised expression against black background.

Pixelated yellow cartoon character with large white eyes, brown shorts, and a surprised expression against black background. 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksI…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered figure
  • solid black background
  • no border

Dense Caption

Static pixel art of a yellow sponge-like figure with oversized white eyes featuring blue pupils and dark eyelashes. The character has a small open mouth showing one tooth, wears brown square-cut shorts, and displays four limbs: two arms extended outward and two legs splayed downward. The body exhibits light greenish-yellow texture variations across its surface. Background is solid black. Pixelation creates blocky edges with visible dithering patterns in yellow tones.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow cartoon character with large white eyes, brown shorts, and a surprised expression against black background.

Fandoms

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080127094809850037241
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow sponge cartoon character
  • surprised expression pixel art
  • brown shorts black background
  • large white eyes blue pupils

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution based on pixelation patterns

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

Style

  • cartoon

Visually Supported Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge
  • large white eyes
  • brown shorts
  • surprised expression
  • black background
  • pixelated art
  • blue pupils
  • one tooth
  • splayed legs

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080127094809850037241
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/14/1406c8de17e8ac052d45eabe2a7b37919e6475c84b0f1fd7219c3102e9423a35.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 UTC
Archive ID
1406c8de17e8ac05
SHA-256
1406c8de17e8ac052d45eabe2a7b37919e6475c84b0f1fd7219c3102e9423a35
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:04 UTC
Run
106
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.098940

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated yellow cartoon character with large white eyes, brown shorts, and a surprised expression against black background.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 13:22 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,481 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,093, response 815

Review tags

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  • legs splayed (action, 0.80)
  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • greenish yellow (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • startled (mood, 0.80)
  • surprised (mood, 0.80)
  • brown shorts (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • sponge like figure (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • standing
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  • legs splayed

Colors

  • yellow
  • greenish-yellow
  • white
  • blue
  • brown
  • black

Composition

  • centered figure
  • solid black background
  • no border

Dense Caption

Static pixel art of a yellow sponge-like figure with oversized white eyes featuring blue pupils and dark eyelashes. The character has a small open mouth showing one tooth, wears brown square-cut shorts, and displays four limbs: two arms extended outward and two legs splayed downward. The body exhibits light greenish-yellow texture variations across its surface. Background is solid black. Pixelation creates blocky edges with visible dithering patterns in yellow tones.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow cartoon character with large white eyes, brown shorts, and a surprised expression against black background.

Fandoms

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080127094809850037241
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • surprised
  • startled

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow sponge cartoon character
  • surprised expression pixel art
  • brown shorts black background
  • large white eyes blue pupils

Objects

  • brown shorts

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original resolution based on pixelation patterns

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
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  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • cartoon
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • sponge-like figure

Visually Supported Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge
  • large white eyes
  • brown shorts
  • surprised expression
  • black background
  • pixelated art
  • blue pupils
  • one tooth
  • splayed legs
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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
20080127094809850037241
Archive entry
20080127094809850037241.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:11 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#20080127094809850037241.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080127094809850037241.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016