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Yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red shorts, and white socks in a cheerful pose with raised arms.

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Yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red shorts, and white socks in a cheerful pose with raised arms.

Yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red shorts, and white socks in a cheerful pose with raised arms. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • none
  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with two versions: left full-color, right purple-tinted.

Composition

  • centered
  • two
  • left full-color
  • right purple-tinted

Dense Caption

Yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red shorts, white socks, and brown belt. Character has wide open mouth showing teeth and tongue, raised arms with star-shaped hands, and greenish-yellow body texture. Two versions: left is full-color, right is purple-tinted. Both have same pose and expression. Background is white for left, gray for right. Character has black shoes with white stripes.

Description

  • Yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red shorts, and white socks in a cheerful pose with raised arms.

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sponge character yellow blue red white
  • sponge character star hands
  • sponge character purple tint
  • sponge character red shorts white socks
  • sponge character smiling
  • sponge character raised arms
  • sponge character brown belt
  • sponge character black shoes white stripes

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray panel on right may be background artifact
  • quarantined composition: two-panel

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • cartoon

Visually Supported Entities

  • sponge character

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge
  • blue eyes
  • red shorts
  • white socks
  • brown belt
  • star hands
  • greenish-yellow body
  • black shoes
  • white stripes
  • wide open mouth
  • teeth
  • tongue
  • cheerful expression
  • raised arms
  • purple tint
  • gray background
  • white background
  • sponge texture
  • star-shaped hands
  • black shoes with white stripes

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090610124716189960832
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
5.4 KB
Motion
Animated (3 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 15:59 UTC
Archive ID
8deafdd06c369501
SHA-256
8deafdd06c3695011f5035c6baf70507fa6b26a32e990140ddde0c57ad0b9e49
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:43 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080978

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (1)
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Yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red shorts, and white socks in a cheerful pose with raised arms.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 11:55 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,308 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 868

Review tags

  • raising arms (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • waving (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • star shaped hands (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • simplified (style, 0.80)
  • sponge character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • raising arms
  • smiling
  • waving

Animation

  • none
  • static

Animation Summary

  • Static image with two versions: left full-color, right purple-tinted.

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • red
  • white
  • brown
  • greenish-yellow
  • purple
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • centered
  • two
  • left full-color
  • right purple-tinted

Dense Caption

Yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red shorts, white socks, and brown belt. Character has wide open mouth showing teeth and tongue, raised arms with star-shaped hands, and greenish-yellow body texture. Two versions: left is full-color, right is purple-tinted. Both have same pose and expression. Background is white for left, gray for right. Character has black shoes with white stripes.

Description

  • Yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red shorts, and white socks in a cheerful pose with raised arms.

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • cheerful
  • happy

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sponge character yellow blue red white
  • sponge character star hands
  • sponge character purple tint
  • sponge character red shorts white socks
  • sponge character smiling
  • sponge character raised arms
  • sponge character brown belt
  • sponge character black shoes white stripes

Objects

  • star-shaped hands

Preprocessing Notes

  • gray panel on right may be background artifact
  • quarantined composition: two-panel

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 collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixelated
  • cartoon
  • simplified

Subjects

  • sponge character

Visually Supported Entities

  • sponge character

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge
  • blue eyes
  • red shorts
  • white socks
  • brown belt
  • star hands
  • greenish-yellow body
  • black shoes
  • white stripes
  • wide open mouth
  • teeth
  • tongue
  • cheerful expression
  • raised arms
  • purple tint
  • gray background
  • white background
  • sponge texture
  • star-shaped hands
  • black shoes with white stripes
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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
20090610124716189960832
Archive entry
20090610124716189960832.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:59 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

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