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Animated yellow sponge character with large eyes and open mouth, overlaid with black text 'I' on a yellow background.

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Animated yellow sponge character with large eyes and open mouth, overlaid with black text 'I' on a yellow background.

Animated yellow sponge character with large eyes and open mouth, overlaid with black text 'I' on a yellow background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive Frank…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • character centered
  • text overlaid on face

Dense Caption

Yellow sponge character with large blue eyes, white pupils, black eyelashes, and open mouth showing teeth; black text 'I' overlaid on character's face; yellow background with green pixelated pattern; character's expression is smiling; text is bold, blocky, white letters on black rectangular background; animation shows no visible movement; image is pixelated with low resolution.

Description

  • Animated yellow sponge character with large eyes and open mouth, overlaid with black text 'I' on a yellow background.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sponge character text I
  • yellow sponge blue eyes
  • pixelated text I
  • sponge character smiling
  • yellow background green pattern

Style

  • cartoon

Visible Text

  • I

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge character
  • large blue eyes
  • black eyelashes
  • open mouth
  • teeth
  • black text 'I'
  • yellow background
  • green pixelated pattern
  • smiling expression
  • bold blocky text
  • pixelated low resolution

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20091005221128186677280
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.8 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/94/94cc076f755f2274dcc675e0262e744113f19a1816e7ebf0fb67780184fddcf5.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 UTC
Archive ID
94cc076f755f2274
SHA-256
94cc076f755f2274dcc675e0262e744113f19a1816e7ebf0fb67780184fddcf5
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 11, 2026 at 07:45 UTC
Run
1281
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000876

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:11 UTC
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1133
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Overall label
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Overall score
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Animated yellow sponge character with large eyes and open mouth, overlaid with black text 'I' on a yellow background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 18:44 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,559 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,110, response 642

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • sponge character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • black
  • white
  • green

Composition

  • character centered
  • text overlaid on face

Dense Caption

Yellow sponge character with large blue eyes, white pupils, black eyelashes, and open mouth showing teeth; black text 'I' overlaid on character's face; yellow background with green pixelated pattern; character's expression is smiling; text is bold, blocky, white letters on black rectangular background; animation shows no visible movement; image is pixelated with low resolution.

Description

  • Animated yellow sponge character with large eyes and open mouth, overlaid with black text 'I' on a yellow background.

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sponge character text I
  • yellow sponge blue eyes
  • pixelated text I
  • sponge character smiling
  • yellow background green pattern

Style

  • pixelated
  • low resolution
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • sponge character

Visible Text

  • I

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge character
  • large blue eyes
  • black eyelashes
  • open mouth
  • teeth
  • black text 'I'
  • yellow background
  • green pixelated pattern
  • smiling expression
  • bold blocky text
  • pixelated low resolution
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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
20091005221128186677280
Archive entry
20091005221128186677280.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:03 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#20091005221128186677280.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20091005221128186677280.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016