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Yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth showing teeth, wearing orange shorts and white shirt, holding yellow star-shaped object.

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Yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth showing teeth, wearing orange shorts and white shirt, holding yellow star-shaped object.

Yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth showing teeth, wearing orange shorts and white shirt, holding yellow star-shaped object. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Actions

  • raising arm
  • extending arm

Composition

  • centered character
  • solid white background
  • no border

Dense Caption

Pixelated 8-bit style image of a yellow porous sponge character with large round blue eyes, wide open red mouth displaying two upper teeth and pink tongue. Character wears red-orange striped shorts over white undershirt, black shoes. Right arm raised holding small yellow star with green center; left arm extended outward. Body angled slightly right on solid white background.

Description

  • Yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth showing teeth, wearing orange shorts and white shirt, holding yellow star-shaped object.

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 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
  • 2015121718162166605322

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow sponge character
  • blue eyes red mouth
  • orange shorts white shirt
  • star object pixel art

Objects

  • yellow star

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate 2007-2016 collection but image itself is static; no animation observed in pixels

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • 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

Visually Supported Entities

  • sponge character

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge
  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • white shirt
  • orange shorts
  • star object
  • 8-bit pixel art
  • solid white background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2015121718162166605322
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:10 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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/7f/7f7bcef47b8d1fdef177ad33dfdacced05cac99a3498a82e7810ec4f88aaf38f.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:10 UTC
Archive ID
7f7bcef47b8d1fde
SHA-256
7f7bcef47b8d1fdef177ad33dfdacced05cac99a3498a82e7810ec4f88aaf38f
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Assessed
August 20, 2026 at 05:06 UTC
Run
1315
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000022

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Assessed
July 29, 2026 at 21:25 UTC
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July 23, 2026 at 17:20 UTC
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Yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth showing teeth, wearing orange shorts and white shirt, holding yellow star-shaped object.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 03:32 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,610 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,101, response 803

Review tags

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  • holding star (action, 0.80)
  • raising arm (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • yellow star (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • sponge character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding star
  • smiling
  • raising arm
  • extending arm

Colors

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

Composition

  • centered character
  • solid white background
  • no border

Dense Caption

Pixelated 8-bit style image of a yellow porous sponge character with large round blue eyes, wide open red mouth displaying two upper teeth and pink tongue. Character wears red-orange striped shorts over white undershirt, black shoes. Right arm raised holding small yellow star with green center; left arm extended outward. Body angled slightly right on solid white background.

Description

  • Yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth showing teeth, wearing orange shorts and white shirt, holding yellow star-shaped object.

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 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
  • 2015121718162166605322

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • happy
  • cheerful

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow sponge character
  • blue eyes red mouth
  • orange shorts white shirt
  • star object pixel art

Objects

  • yellow star

Preprocessing Notes

  • source hints indicate 2007-2016 collection but image itself is static; no animation observed in pixels

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • sponge character

Visually Supported Entities

  • sponge character

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge
  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • white shirt
  • orange shorts
  • star object
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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
2015121718162166605322
Archive entry
2015121718162166605322.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:10 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#2015121718162166605322.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2015121718162166605322.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016