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Yellow sponge character in red cap and shirt, dark blue pants, holding a yellow object with green and white details against gray background.

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Yellow sponge character in red cap and shirt, dark blue pants, holding a yellow object with green and white details against gray background.

Yellow sponge character in red cap and shirt, dark blue pants, holding a yellow object with green and white details against gray background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • character centered left
  • object right of character
  • background solid color

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a yellow porous cartoon character wearing a red baseball cap with dark blue brim, red short-sleeve shirt with single white button, dark blue pants. Character has large eyes with black pupils, small brown nose, mouth in neutral expression. Right hand holds a yellow object with green and white sections; left side shows partial red shape resembling letter P. Background is solid gray with light gray floor strip at bottom. Image uses low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Yellow sponge character in red cap and shirt, dark blue pants, holding a yellow object with green and white details against gray background.

Fandoms

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Identity Hypotheses

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow sponge character red cap
  • red shirt dark blue pants
  • holding yellow object green white
  • gray background pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

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

Uncertain Text

  • P-like shape left side

Visually Supported Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge character
  • red baseball cap
  • dark blue brim
  • red short-sleeve shirt
  • single white button
  • dark blue pants
  • large eyes black pupils
  • small brown nose
  • neutral mouth expression
  • right hand holding yellow object
  • green and white sections on object
  • gray background
  • light gray floor strip
  • low-resolution pixel art

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008052313510189124232
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.2 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/5b/5b0b0396e9b49269cd1a406b3bd8f84beac803c475cd8ad20a3c8259f4346175.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 UTC
Archive ID
5b0b0396e9b49269
SHA-256
5b0b0396e9b49269cd1a406b3bd8f84beac803c475cd8ad20a3c8259f4346175
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:33 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.094160

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.905840onnx/unsafe0.094160onnx/nsfl0.048896onnx/nsfw0.045263
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Yellow sponge character in red cap and shirt, dark blue pants, holding a yellow object with green and white details against gray background.

Reviewed
August 5, 2026 at 18:23 UTC
Run
58
Version
v5
Elapsed
16,272 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 825

Review tags

  • holding object (action, 0.80)
  • dark blue (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • light gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • yellow object with green and white details (object, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • yellow sponge character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding object

Colors

  • yellow
  • red
  • dark blue
  • gray
  • light gray
  • green
  • white
  • brown

Composition

  • character centered left
  • object right of character
  • background solid color

Dense Caption

Pixelated image of a yellow porous cartoon character wearing a red baseball cap with dark blue brim, red short-sleeve shirt with single white button, dark blue pants. Character has large eyes with black pupils, small brown nose, mouth in neutral expression. Right hand holds a yellow object with green and white sections; left side shows partial red shape resembling letter P. Background is solid gray with light gray floor strip at bottom. Image uses low-resolution pixel art style.

Description

  • Yellow sponge character in red cap and shirt, dark blue pants, holding a yellow object with green and white details against gray background.

Fandoms

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Identity Hypotheses

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • unconfirmed metadataSupportedByImage not promoted: provenance era: 2007-2016

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • neutral

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow sponge character red cap
  • red shirt dark blue pants
  • holding yellow object green white
  • gray background pixel art

Objects

  • yellow object with green and white details

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears upscaled from original dimensions

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

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • yellow sponge character

Uncertain Text

  • P-like shape left side

Visually Supported Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge character
  • red baseball cap
  • dark blue brim
  • red short-sleeve shirt
  • single white button
  • dark blue pants
  • large eyes black pupils
  • small brown nose
  • neutral mouth expression
  • right hand holding yellow object
  • green and white sections on object
  • gray background
  • light gray floor strip
  • low-resolution pixel art
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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
2008052313510189124232
Archive entry
2008052313510189124232.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:27 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#2008052313510189124232.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008052313510189124232.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016