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

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

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

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • square background with text in four quadrants

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated sponge character with large blue eyes, wide open red mouth showing teeth, wearing orange shorts with brown belt. Character holds small golden star-tipped wand in right hand raised above head; left arm extended outward. White square background contains dark green text: 'He's' top-right, 'my' bottom-left, 'idol' bottom-right. All elements are static.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts holding a star-tipped wand on 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 topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow sponge cartoon
  • star wand idol text
  • my idol sponge
  • sponge holding star

Visible Text

  • He's
  • my
  • idol

Visually Supported Entities

  • sponge character

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge
  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • orange shorts
  • star-tipped wand
  • white background
  • dark green text
  • He's my idol

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200809081314451437404292
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 UTC
Archive ID
71177066ae779ed8
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 14, 2026 at 02:32 UTC
Run
1290
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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July 23, 2026 at 16:47 UTC
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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts holding a star-tipped wand on white background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 23:26 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,657 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,112, response 582

Review tags

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  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • raising (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
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  • enthusiastic (mood, 0.80)
  • star tipped wand (object, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
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  • sponge character (subject, 0.80)

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Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • red
  • orange
  • brown
  • white
  • dark green

Composition

  • square background with text in four quadrants

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated sponge character with large blue eyes, wide open red mouth showing teeth, wearing orange shorts with brown belt. Character holds small golden star-tipped wand in right hand raised above head; left arm extended outward. White square background contains dark green text: 'He's' top-right, 'my' bottom-left, 'idol' bottom-right. All elements are static.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts holding a star-tipped wand on 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 topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • cheerful
  • enthusiastic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow sponge cartoon
  • star wand idol text
  • my idol sponge
  • sponge holding star

Objects

  • star-tipped wand

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • sponge character

Visible Text

  • He's
  • my
  • idol

Visually Supported Entities

  • sponge character

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge
  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • orange shorts
  • star-tipped wand
  • white background
  • dark green text
  • He's my idol
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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
200809081314451437404292
Archive entry
200809081314451437404292.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:38 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#200809081314451437404292.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200809081314451437404292.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016