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Pixelated yellow sponge character with large blue eyes, white teeth, and red tie, smiling broadly against a yellow background.

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Pixelated yellow sponge character with large blue eyes, white teeth, and red tie, smiling broadly against a yellow background.

Pixelated yellow sponge character with large blue eyes, white teeth, and red tie, smiling broadly against a yellow background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no animation

Composition

  • centered character portrait
  • square cropping

Dense Caption

Pixelated yellow sponge character with large blue eyes featuring black pupils and white highlights, white teeth, and a red tie. Character wears white shirt and brown pants. Background is solid yellow. Character has orange sideburns. Expression is broad smile showing teeth. Image is static, low-resolution, and pixelated. No visible text. Colors include yellow, blue, white, red, brown, and orange. Composition is centered character portrait. Style is cartoonish with blocky pixels. Rendering technique is pixel art. Cropping is square. Mood is cheerful. No animation changes observed.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow sponge character with large blue eyes, white teeth, and red tie, smiling broadly against a yellow 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200901190949131306534602
  • 200901190950121264777556
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • spongebob squarepants pixel art
  • yellow sponge blue eyes red tie
  • sponge character white teeth smile
  • pixelated cartoon character yellow background
  • spongebob squarepants static icon
  • sponge character brown pants white shirt
  • spongebob squarepants orange sideburns
  • yellow sponge character pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge
  • blue eyes
  • white teeth
  • red tie
  • white shirt
  • brown pants
  • orange sideburns
  • broad smile
  • solid yellow background
  • pixelated
  • static
  • cartoonish
  • blocky pixels
  • cheerful mood

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901190949131306534602
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200901190950121264777556
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.4 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/71/71032f318fa2babd73968d4f707e22438ba0bb2ded836c48e46c5f8af0eef281.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 UTC
Archive ID
71032f318fa2babd
SHA-256
71032f318fa2babd73968d4f707e22438ba0bb2ded836c48e46c5f8af0eef281
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:55 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.082934

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated yellow sponge character with large blue eyes, white teeth, and red tie, smiling broadly against a yellow background.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 19:05 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,536 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,136, response 755

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • character (subject, 0.80)
  • sponge (subject, 0.80)

Animation Summary

  • no animation

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • white
  • red
  • brown
  • orange

Composition

  • centered character portrait
  • square cropping

Dense Caption

Pixelated yellow sponge character with large blue eyes featuring black pupils and white highlights, white teeth, and a red tie. Character wears white shirt and brown pants. Background is solid yellow. Character has orange sideburns. Expression is broad smile showing teeth. Image is static, low-resolution, and pixelated. No visible text. Colors include yellow, blue, white, red, brown, and orange. Composition is centered character portrait. Style is cartoonish with blocky pixels. Rendering technique is pixel art. Cropping is square. Mood is cheerful. No animation changes observed.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow sponge character with large blue eyes, white teeth, and red tie, smiling broadly against a yellow 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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 200901190949131306534602
  • 200901190950121264777556
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • cheerful

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • yellow sponge blue eyes red tie
  • sponge character white teeth smile
  • pixelated cartoon character yellow background
  • spongebob squarepants static icon
  • sponge character brown pants white shirt
  • spongebob squarepants orange sideburns
  • yellow sponge character pixel art

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation detected

Style

  • pixel art
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • sponge
  • character

Wordwall

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  • blue eyes
  • white teeth
  • red tie
  • white shirt
  • brown pants
  • orange sideburns
  • broad smile
  • solid yellow background
  • pixelated
  • static
  • cartoonish
  • blocky pixels
  • cheerful mood
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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
200901190949131306534602
Archive entry
200901190949131306534602.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 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#200901190949131306534602.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901190949131306534602.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
200901190950121264777556
Archive entry
200901190950121264777556.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:49 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#200901190950121264777556.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200901190950121264777556.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016