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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth showing teeth, wearing brown shorts and white shirt, holding star-shaped object in raised hand.

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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth showing teeth, wearing brown shorts and white shirt, holding star-shaped object in raised hand.

Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth showing teeth, wearing brown shorts and white shirt, holding star-shaped object in raised hand. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Actions

  • raising arm
  • extending arm

Composition

  • character centered left
  • solid background
  • partial body visible

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated square-shaped sponge character with large round blue eyes featuring white highlights, wide open red mouth displaying two rows of white teeth and pink tongue. Character wears orange-brown striped shorts over white undershirt, black shoes. Right arm raised holding small yellow star-shaped object; left arm extended outward. Body angled slightly right on solid green background. Pixelation evident throughout image with visible dithering patterns.

Description

Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth showing teeth, wearing brown shorts and white shirt, holding star-shaped object in raised hand.

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

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow sponge character
  • blue eyes red mouth
  • star-shaped object green background
  • pixelated cartoon character

Style

  • cartoon

Visually Supported Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge
  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • white teeth
  • orange-brown shorts
  • white undershirt
  • black shoes
  • star-shaped object
  • green background
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200712081104421305513422
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 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
icons/73/731b15ff43b0e48494d3a2388ab6106b6cd6c86ad80d040c9c33f0c1208196df.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 UTC
Archive ID
731b15ff43b0e484
SHA-256
731b15ff43b0e48494d3a2388ab6106b6cd6c86ad80d040c9c33f0c1208196df
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:57 UTC
Run
1039
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.076340

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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth showing teeth, wearing brown shorts and white shirt, holding star-shaped object in raised hand.

Reviewed
July 31, 2026 at 00:15 UTC
Run
55
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,816 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,114, response 611

Review tags

  • extending arm (action, 0.80)
  • holding star (action, 0.80)
  • raising arm (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • star shaped object (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • sponge character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding star
  • raising arm
  • extending arm

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • red
  • white
  • orange-brown
  • black
  • green

Composition

  • character centered left
  • solid background
  • partial body visible

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated square-shaped sponge character with large round blue eyes featuring white highlights, wide open red mouth displaying two rows of white teeth and pink tongue. Character wears orange-brown striped shorts over white undershirt, black shoes. Right arm raised holding small yellow star-shaped object; left arm extended outward. Body angled slightly right on solid green background. Pixelation evident throughout image with visible dithering patterns.

Description

Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth showing teeth, wearing brown shorts and white shirt, holding star-shaped object in raised hand.

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

Mood

  • happy
  • cheerful

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow sponge character
  • blue eyes red mouth
  • star-shaped object green background
  • pixelated cartoon character

Objects

  • star-shaped object

Style

  • pixel art
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • sponge character

Visually Supported Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge
  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • white teeth
  • orange-brown shorts
  • white undershirt
  • black shoes
  • star-shaped object
  • green background
  • pixelated
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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
200712081104421305513422
Archive entry
200712081104421305513422.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:03 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#200712081104421305513422.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200712081104421305513422.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016