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Pixelated yellow sponge character with wide eyes and open mouth holding a star-tipped wand, standing next to cyan text on black background.

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Pixelated yellow sponge character with wide eyes and open mouth holding a star-tipped wand, standing next to cyan text on black background.

Pixelated yellow sponge character with wide eyes and open mouth holding a star-tipped wand, standing next to cyan text on black background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes

Composition

  • left character
  • right text
  • white background left
  • black background right

Dense Caption

Yellow sponge character with large blue eyes, red mouth showing teeth, orange shorts with white trim, and black shoes. Character holds a yellow star-tipped wand in raised right hand and extends left hand. Text on black background reads "THE MAGIC CONCH SHELL!" in cyan block letters. Character has greenish patches on body. Pixelated rendering style with visible dithering. White background on left side of image.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow sponge character with wide eyes and open mouth holding a star-tipped wand, standing next to cyan text on black 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 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 Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sponge character magic conch shell
  • yellow sponge star wand text
  • spongebob magic conch shell
  • sponge character cyan text
  • sponge character orange shorts
  • sponge character star wand
  • sponge character black shoes
  • sponge character greenish patches

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed in provided frame

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

Visible Text

  • THE MAGIC CONCH SHELL!

Visually Supported Entities

  • sponge character

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge
  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • orange shorts
  • black shoes
  • star-tipped wand
  • cyan text
  • black background
  • greenish patches
  • pixelated rendering
  • white background
  • THE MAGIC CONCH SHELL!
  • wide eyes
  • open mouth
  • extending left hand
  • raised right hand
  • text on black background
  • greenish patches on body
  • pixelated dithering

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090308144446299754423
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

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
icons/8d/8d078e3d3edecd60fe00d7302302bcd95152d70ce6fd8f6d29f4e990fde319cd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 UTC
Archive ID
8d078e3d3edecd60
SHA-256
8d078e3d3edecd60fe00d7302302bcd95152d70ce6fd8f6d29f4e990fde319cd
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:42 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.118180

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926785onnx/unsafe0.118180onnx/nsfw0.078644onnx/nsfl0.039536
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated yellow sponge character with wide eyes and open mouth holding a star-tipped wand, standing next to cyan text on black background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 02:09 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,328 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 875

Review tags

  • extending (action, 0.80)
  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • raising (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • star tipped wand (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • sponge character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • extending
  • raising

Animation Summary

  • no visible animation changes

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • red
  • orange
  • black
  • cyan
  • greenish
  • white

Composition

  • left character
  • right text
  • white background left
  • black background right

Dense Caption

Yellow sponge character with large blue eyes, red mouth showing teeth, orange shorts with white trim, and black shoes. Character holds a yellow star-tipped wand in raised right hand and extends left hand. Text on black background reads "THE MAGIC CONCH SHELL!" in cyan block letters. Character has greenish patches on body. Pixelated rendering style with visible dithering. White background on left side of image.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow sponge character with wide eyes and open mouth holding a star-tipped wand, standing next to cyan text on black 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 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 Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • cheerful
  • playful

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sponge character magic conch shell
  • yellow sponge star wand text
  • spongebob magic conch shell
  • sponge character cyan text
  • sponge character orange shorts
  • sponge character star wand
  • sponge character black shoes
  • sponge character greenish patches

Objects

  • star-tipped wand

Preprocessing Notes

  • no animation observed in provided frame

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

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky
  • dithered

Subjects

  • sponge character

Visible Text

  • THE MAGIC CONCH SHELL!

Visually Supported Entities

  • sponge character

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge
  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • orange shorts
  • black shoes
  • star-tipped wand
  • cyan text
  • black background
  • greenish patches
  • pixelated rendering
  • white background
  • THE MAGIC CONCH SHELL!
  • wide eyes
  • open mouth
  • extending left hand
  • raised right hand
  • text on black background
  • greenish patches on body
  • pixelated dithering
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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
20090308144446299754423
Archive entry
20090308144446299754423.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:53 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#20090308144446299754423.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090308144446299754423.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016