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

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

Pixelated yellow sponge character with wide blue eyes, red mouth, orange shorts, and white shirt, holding a star-topped stick against white background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM budd…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • character on left
  • text on right
  • red rectangle background
  • white background for character

Dense Caption

Yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, orange shorts, white shirt, and black shoes. Character holds a star-topped stick in right hand, left hand extended. Background is white. Right side of image has red rectangle with black text 'im ready' repeated three times. Pixelated rendering style. Character expression is smiling. Text is in lowercase, sans-serif font. Character is facing forward.

Description

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

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 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080917182419978893202
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sponge character im ready
  • yellow sponge star stick
  • im ready text three times
  • sponge character white background
  • red rectangle im ready
  • sponge character smiling
  • pixelated sponge character
  • star-topped stick sponge

Style

  • cartoon

Visible Text

  • im ready

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge
  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • orange shorts
  • white shirt
  • black shoes
  • star-topped stick
  • white background
  • red rectangle
  • im ready text
  • pixelated
  • smiling expression
  • three text repetitions
  • lowercase sans-serif

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080917182419978893202
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC

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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/5b/5bf69951b37b2deaff999d5fa45478173427f06b118bacf508e9cae55af59a96.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 UTC
Archive ID
5bf69951b37b2dea
SHA-256
5bf69951b37b2deaff999d5fa45478173427f06b118bacf508e9cae55af59a96
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:34 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.099370

OpenAI category scores

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

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 00:40 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,800 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 778

Review tags

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  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • star topped stick (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • simplified (style, 0.80)
  • sponge character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • extending
  • smiling

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • red
  • orange
  • white
  • black

Composition

  • character on left
  • text on right
  • red rectangle background
  • white background for character

Dense Caption

Yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, orange shorts, white shirt, and black shoes. Character holds a star-topped stick in right hand, left hand extended. Background is white. Right side of image has red rectangle with black text 'im ready' repeated three times. Pixelated rendering style. Character expression is smiling. Text is in lowercase, sans-serif font. Character is facing forward.

Description

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

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 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
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20080917182419978893202
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • happy
  • playful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sponge character im ready
  • yellow sponge star stick
  • im ready text three times
  • sponge character white background
  • red rectangle im ready
  • sponge character smiling
  • pixelated sponge character
  • star-topped stick sponge

Objects

  • star-topped stick

Style

  • pixelated
  • simplified
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • sponge character

Visible Text

  • im ready

Wordwall

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  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • orange shorts
  • white shirt
  • black shoes
  • star-topped stick
  • white background
  • red rectangle
  • im ready text
  • pixelated
  • smiling expression
  • three text repetitions
  • lowercase sans-serif
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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
20080917182419978893202
Archive entry
20080917182419978893202.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:39 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#20080917182419978893202.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080917182419978893202.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016