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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts holding a star-tipped wand on white background with green text elements.

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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts holding a star-tipped wand on white background with green text elements.

Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts holding a star-tipped wand on white background with green text elements. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM budd…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes

Composition

  • character on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated sponge character with large blue eyes, red mouth showing teeth, orange shorts with white trim, and black shoes. Character holds a yellow star-tipped wand in raised right hand, left hand extended. White background on left side, solid bright green background on right. Blue pixelated text 'otis' at top right, 'likes' at bottom left, 'spongebob' at bottom right. Character has a cheerful expression with visible blush. Pixelation indicates low-resolution rendering. No visible animation changes in this static frame.

Description

Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts holding a star-tipped wand on white background with green text elements.

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • spongebob

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sponge character star wand
  • sponge character orange shorts
  • sponge character blue text
  • sponge character pixel art
  • sponge character cheerful expression
  • sponge character white green background
  • sponge character otis likes spongebob
  • sponge character star-tipped wand

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed in this frame

Style

  • cartoon

Visible Text

  • otis
  • likes
  • spongebob

Visually Supported Entities

  • sponge character

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge character
  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • orange shorts
  • black shoes
  • star-tipped wand
  • white background
  • bright green background
  • blue text
  • cheerful expression
  • pixelated rendering
  • blush mark

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20111109024330303098985
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/4c/4c357cd1a64d11dd28a8043384a6620ae9e0d06da11adc1e117411184cd8cecf.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC
Archive ID
4c357cd1a64d11dd
SHA-256
4c357cd1a64d11dd28a8043384a6620ae9e0d06da11adc1e117411184cd8cecf
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 7, 2026 at 02:14 UTC
Run
1272
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.001172

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:16 UTC
Run
1033
Input
image
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 holding a star-tipped wand on white background with green text elements.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 01:13 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,247 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 679

Review tags

  • holding wand (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • waving (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • star tipped wand (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • sponge character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding wand
  • waving
  • smiling

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • red
  • orange
  • black
  • white
  • bright green

Composition

  • character on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated sponge character with large blue eyes, red mouth showing teeth, orange shorts with white trim, and black shoes. Character holds a yellow star-tipped wand in raised right hand, left hand extended. White background on left side, solid bright green background on right. Blue pixelated text 'otis' at top right, 'likes' at bottom left, 'spongebob' at bottom right. Character has a cheerful expression with visible blush. Pixelation indicates low-resolution rendering. No visible animation changes in this static frame.

Description

Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts holding a star-tipped wand on white background with green text elements.

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Metadata Only Entities

  • spongebob

Mood

  • cheerful
  • playful

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sponge character star wand
  • sponge character orange shorts
  • sponge character blue text
  • sponge character pixel art
  • sponge character cheerful expression
  • sponge character white green background
  • sponge character otis likes spongebob
  • sponge character star-tipped wand

Objects

  • star-tipped wand

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed in this frame

Style

  • pixel art
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • sponge character

Visible Text

  • otis
  • likes
  • spongebob

Visually Supported Entities

  • sponge character

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge character
  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • orange shorts
  • black shoes
  • star-tipped wand
  • white background
  • bright green background
  • blue text
  • cheerful expression
  • pixelated rendering
  • blush mark
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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
20111109024330303098985
Archive entry
20111109024330303098985.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 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#20111109024330303098985.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20111109024330303098985.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016