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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, orange shorts, and white shirt holding a star-tipped stick against white and green backgrounds.

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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, orange shorts, and white shirt holding a star-tipped stick against white and green backgrounds.

Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, orange shorts, and white shirt holding a star-tipped stick against white and green backgrounds. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split background
  • left character
  • right text

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, orange shorts, white shirt, and black shoes. Character holds a star-tipped stick in right hand, left hand extended. Background split: white on left, solid green on right. Blue pixel text on green background reads "I <3 SPONGBOB" with "<3" as a heart symbol. Character has wide smile, visible teeth, and pink cheeks. Pixelation is prominent throughout.

Description

Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, orange shorts, and white shirt holding a star-tipped stick against white and green backgrounds.

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 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

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sponge character yellow blue eyes
  • sponge character orange shorts white shirt
  • sponge character star-tipped stick
  • sponge character I <3 SPONGBOB
  • sponge character pixelated
  • sponge character split background
  • sponge character happy
  • sponge character pink cheeks

Visible Text

  • I
  • <3
  • SPONGBOB

Visually Supported Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge
  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • orange shorts
  • white shirt
  • black shoes
  • star-tipped stick
  • white background
  • green background
  • blue text
  • I <3 SPONGBOB
  • wide smile
  • pink cheeks
  • pixelated
  • heart symbol
  • star
  • teeth
  • extended left hand
  • sponge character

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080930130816152956468
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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 15:40 UTC
Archive ID
99741aee7c3d5f9c
SHA-256
99741aee7c3d5f9c2a57b6a9c665c46a28d267cb770eff840ebbd70c205eb16d
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:14 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
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Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.080573

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, orange shorts, and white shirt holding a star-tipped stick against white and green backgrounds.

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 02:23 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
8,993 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 744

Review tags

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  • smiling (action, 0.80)
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  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • star tipped stick (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • sponge character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • extending
  • smiling

Colors

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

Composition

  • split background
  • left character
  • right text

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, orange shorts, white shirt, and black shoes. Character holds a star-tipped stick in right hand, left hand extended. Background split: white on left, solid green on right. Blue pixel text on green background reads "I <3 SPONGBOB" with "<3" as a heart symbol. Character has wide smile, visible teeth, and pink cheeks. Pixelation is prominent throughout.

Description

Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, orange shorts, and white shirt holding a star-tipped stick against white and green backgrounds.

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 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

Mood

  • happy
  • cheerful

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sponge character yellow blue eyes
  • sponge character orange shorts white shirt
  • sponge character star-tipped stick
  • sponge character I <3 SPONGBOB
  • sponge character pixelated
  • sponge character split background
  • sponge character happy
  • sponge character pink cheeks

Objects

  • star-tipped stick

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • sponge character

Visible Text

  • I
  • <3
  • SPONGBOB

Visually Supported Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Wordwall

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  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • orange shorts
  • white shirt
  • black shoes
  • star-tipped stick
  • white background
  • green background
  • blue text
  • I <3 SPONGBOB
  • wide smile
  • pink cheeks
  • pixelated
  • heart symbol
  • star
  • teeth
  • extended left hand
  • sponge character
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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
20080930130816152956468
Archive entry
20080930130816152956468.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:40 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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