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Pixelated yellow sponge character with wide eyes and open mouth, wearing red tie and white shirt, holding star-shaped object against purple background with green text.

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Pixelated yellow sponge character with wide eyes and open mouth, wearing red tie and white shirt, holding star-shaped object against purple background with green text.

Pixelated yellow sponge character with wide eyes and open mouth, wearing red tie and white shirt, holding star-shaped object against purple background with green text. Animated 48…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Actions

  • extending arm

Composition

  • split background
  • character on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated sponge character (SpongeBob SquarePants) in full-body view. Character has large blue eyes, wide open mouth showing teeth, orange cheeks, and is smiling broadly. Wearing red necktie over white short-sleeve shirt. Left hand holds small yellow star-shaped object with black outline; right arm extended outward. Background split: left side white, right side solid purple. Green pixelated text on purple background reads "im ready" twice in stacked lines. Character rendered in low-resolution 8-bit style with visible dithering and blocky pixels.

Description

Pixelated yellow sponge character with wide eyes and open mouth, wearing red tie and white shirt, holding star-shaped object against purple background with green text.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200808250750231816177981
  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • spongebob squarepants pixel art
  • yellow sponge character red tie
  • im ready green text purple background
  • star object smiling cartoon

Visible Text

  • im ready

Visually Supported Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge character
  • blue eyes
  • red necktie
  • white shirt
  • star-shaped object
  • purple background
  • green text
  • pixelated
  • wide mouth
  • orange cheeks

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200808250750231816177981
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
734541822ddb7ff7
SHA-256
734541822ddb7ff7eab7f24ff790e272cc14bde52713e0b27e7839d1d8dd1029
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 16:57 UTC
Run
1039
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.075350

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated yellow sponge character with wide eyes and open mouth, wearing red tie and white shirt, holding star-shaped object against purple background with green text.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 21:28 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,997 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,145, response 720

Review tags

  • extending arm (action, 0.80)
  • holding star (action, 0.80)
  • smiling broadly (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • enthusiastic (mood, 0.80)
  • star shaped object (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • sponge character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding star
  • smiling broadly
  • extending arm

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • red
  • white
  • purple
  • green

Composition

  • split background
  • character on left
  • text on right

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated sponge character (SpongeBob SquarePants) in full-body view. Character has large blue eyes, wide open mouth showing teeth, orange cheeks, and is smiling broadly. Wearing red necktie over white short-sleeve shirt. Left hand holds small yellow star-shaped object with black outline; right arm extended outward. Background split: left side white, right side solid purple. Green pixelated text on purple background reads "im ready" twice in stacked lines. Character rendered in low-resolution 8-bit style with visible dithering and blocky pixels.

Description

Pixelated yellow sponge character with wide eyes and open mouth, wearing red tie and white shirt, holding star-shaped object against purple background with green text.

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 200808250750231816177981
  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016

Mood

  • cheerful
  • enthusiastic

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

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  • yellow sponge character red tie
  • im ready green text purple background
  • star object smiling cartoon

Objects

  • star-shaped object

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • sponge character

Visible Text

  • im ready

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  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge character
  • blue eyes
  • red necktie
  • white shirt
  • star-shaped object
  • purple background
  • green text
  • pixelated
  • wide mouth
  • orange cheeks
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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
200808250750231816177981
Archive entry
200808250750231816177981.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#200808250750231816177981.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200808250750231816177981.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016