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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts holding a star-tipped stick against white background.

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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts holding a star-tipped stick against white background.

Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts holding a star-tipped stick against white background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split background
  • left character
  • right text

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated sponge character with large blue eyes, wide open red mouth showing teeth, wearing orange shorts with black belt. Character holds small golden star-tipped stick in right hand raised above head; left arm extended outward. Background is solid white on left side of image. Right side features bright pink background with cyan text "I LOVE SPONGE BOB" in pixelated font.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts holding a star-tipped stick against white background.

Fandoms

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Identity Hypotheses

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow sponge character orange shorts
  • I LOVE SPONGE BOB text
  • star-tipped stick yellow sponge
  • pixelated SpongeBob text

Visible Text

  • I LOVE SPONGE BOB

Visually Supported Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge character
  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • orange shorts
  • star-tipped stick
  • white background
  • pink background
  • cyan text
  • pixelated font

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20071008212300122296527
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200710082124391906767149
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/48/488aedb0a0391f31ca9e94ac885acf653ac34d74554237cb2fc4341b67c92cc5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 UTC
Archive ID
488aedb0a0391f31
SHA-256
488aedb0a0391f31ca9e94ac885acf653ac34d74554237cb2fc4341b67c92cc5
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:59 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.077118

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts holding a star-tipped stick against white background.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 08:37 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,748 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,186, response 602

Review tags

  • extending (action, 0.80)
  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • raising (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • star tipped stick (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • retro digital (style, 0.80)
  • sponge character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • raising
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Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • red
  • orange
  • black
  • white
  • pink
  • cyan

Composition

  • split background
  • left character
  • right text

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated sponge character with large blue eyes, wide open red mouth showing teeth, wearing orange shorts with black belt. Character holds small golden star-tipped stick in right hand raised above head; left arm extended outward. Background is solid white on left side of image. Right side features bright pink background with cyan text "I LOVE SPONGE BOB" in pixelated font.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts holding a star-tipped stick against white background.

Fandoms

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Identity Hypotheses

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

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 collection-attribute: historical-archive

Mood

  • happy
  • cheerful

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow sponge character orange shorts
  • I LOVE SPONGE BOB text
  • star-tipped stick yellow sponge
  • pixelated SpongeBob text

Objects

  • star-tipped stick

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • sponge character

Visible Text

  • I LOVE SPONGE BOB

Visually Supported Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge character
  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • orange shorts
  • star-tipped stick
  • white background
  • pink background
  • cyan text
  • pixelated font
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Full source records (2)

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
20071008212300122296527
Archive entry
20071008212300122296527.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 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#20071008212300122296527.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20071008212300122296527.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016

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
200710082124391906767149
Archive entry
200710082124391906767149.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:49 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#200710082124391906767149.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200710082124391906767149.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016