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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts stands on white background; bright pink backdrop contains three yellow text blocks.

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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts stands on white background; bright pink backdrop contains three yellow text blocks.

Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts stands on white background; bright pink backdrop contains three yellow text blocks. Animated 48×48 G…

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Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with pixelated rendering.

Composition

  • character on white left
  • text blocks right and bottom

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated square-shaped sponge character with large blue eyes, wide open red mouth showing teeth, green underbelly, orange-red striped shorts, white collar, black shoes. Left hand raised holding small golden star; right arm extended outward. White rectangular panel on left side of bright pink background. Three yellow text blocks: 'PHOEBE' at top-right, 'DANAE' bottom-left, 'BFFL' bottom-right. All text uses blocky pixelated font with slight color bleeding. Character has cheerful expression and dynamic pose. Background is solid bright magenta-pink. Image rendered in low-resolution 8-bit style with visible dithering.

Description

Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts stands on white background; bright pink backdrop contains three yellow text blocks.

Identity Hypotheses

  • SpongeBob SquarePants character

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 topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200806291919562073994466
  • FranksIcons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • spongebob squarepants yellow blue red orange shorts
  • yellow sponge character magenta pink background text phoebe danae bffl
  • pixel art sponge character star prop cheerful expression

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined composition: character on white panel left

Style

  • 8-bit graphics

Visible Text

  • PHOEBE
  • DANAE
  • BFFL

Visually Supported Entities

  • sponge character (SpongeBob SquarePants)

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge character
  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • orange shorts
  • white collar
  • black shoes
  • golden star prop
  • cheerful expression
  • dynamic pose
  • blocky pixelated font
  • bright pink background
  • magenta-pink color scheme
  • low-resolution rendering
  • dithered pixels

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200806291919562073994466
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/24/24f08d4656a9db09e655f6f2a54aa71c8687b91aebaed293c4db392c7fb265df.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 UTC
Archive ID
24f08d4656a9db09
SHA-256
24f08d4656a9db09e655f6f2a54aa71c8687b91aebaed293c4db392c7fb265df
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 2, 2026 at 05:14 UTC
Run
1254
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000552

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:22 UTC
Run
107
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts stands on white background; bright pink backdrop contains three yellow text blocks.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 09:33 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,999 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,111, response 735

Review tags

  • arm extended (action, 0.80)
  • hand raised (action, 0.80)
  • holding star prop (action, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • golden star (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit graphics (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • sponge character (subject, 0.80)
  • text blocks (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding star prop
  • arm extended
  • hand raised

Animation Summary

  • No visible animation changes; static image with pixelated rendering.

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • red
  • orange
  • green
  • white
  • black
  • magenta-pink

Composition

  • character on white left
  • text blocks right and bottom

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated square-shaped sponge character with large blue eyes, wide open red mouth showing teeth, green underbelly, orange-red striped shorts, white collar, black shoes. Left hand raised holding small golden star; right arm extended outward. White rectangular panel on left side of bright pink background. Three yellow text blocks: 'PHOEBE' at top-right, 'DANAE' bottom-left, 'BFFL' bottom-right. All text uses blocky pixelated font with slight color bleeding. Character has cheerful expression and dynamic pose. Background is solid bright magenta-pink. Image rendered in low-resolution 8-bit style with visible dithering.

Description

Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts stands on white background; bright pink backdrop contains three yellow text blocks.

Identity Hypotheses

  • SpongeBob SquarePants character

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 topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200806291919562073994466
  • FranksIcons
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • cheerful
  • playful

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • spongebob squarepants yellow blue red orange shorts
  • yellow sponge character magenta pink background text phoebe danae bffl
  • pixel art sponge character star prop cheerful expression

Objects

  • golden star

Preprocessing Notes

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Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit graphics
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • sponge character
  • text blocks

Visible Text

  • PHOEBE
  • DANAE
  • BFFL

Visually Supported Entities

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Wordwall

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  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • orange shorts
  • white collar
  • black shoes
  • golden star prop
  • cheerful expression
  • dynamic pose
  • blocky pixelated font
  • bright pink background
  • magenta-pink color scheme
  • low-resolution rendering
  • dithered pixels
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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
200806291919562073994466
Archive entry
200806291919562073994466.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:32 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#200806291919562073994466.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200806291919562073994466.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016