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Pixelated yellow sponge character with wide eyes, red mouth, orange shorts, and white shirt holding a star-tipped wand, standing on a white background.

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Pixelated yellow sponge character with wide eyes, red mouth, orange shorts, and white shirt holding a star-tipped wand, standing on a white background.

Pixelated yellow sponge character with wide eyes, red mouth, orange shorts, and white shirt holding a star-tipped wand, standing on a white background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM budd…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • character on white background
  • text on black background

Dense Caption

Yellow sponge character with large blue eyes, red mouth showing teeth, orange shorts with white trim, white shirt, and black shoes. Character holds a yellow star-tipped wand in the right hand, left hand extended. Text elements: 'who lives in a pineapple' (green, top-right), 'UNDER THE SEA' (green, bottom-left), 'SPONGE BOB' (green, bottom-right), 'SQUARE PANTS' (green, bottom-right). Background is white for character, black for text. Pixelated rendering style.

Description

Pixelated yellow sponge character with wide eyes, red mouth, orange shorts, and white shirt holding a star-tipped wand, standing on a white 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 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

  • spongebob squarepants pineapple sea
  • spongebob squarepants star wand
  • spongebob squarepants under the sea
  • spongebob squarepants yellow sponge
  • spongebob squarepants orange shorts
  • spongebob squarepants green text
  • spongebob squarepants pixelated
  • spongebob squarepants blue eyes

Visible Text

  • who lives in a pineapple
  • UNDER
  • THE
  • SEA
  • SPONGE
  • BOB
  • SQUARE
  • PANTS

Visually Supported Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge
  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • orange shorts
  • white shirt
  • star-tipped wand
  • green text
  • black background
  • white background
  • pixelated

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070731122911253731435
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
3.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/99/99b978ea4415d9aa2426bc5a9efc74bda110d37185c722287024b17b915adffc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 UTC
Archive ID
99b978ea4415d9aa
SHA-256
99b978ea4415d9aa2426bc5a9efc74bda110d37185c722287024b17b915adffc
Content-safety assessments (3)
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Assessed
August 25, 2026 at 16:58 UTC
Run
1343
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 28, 2026 at 23:57 UTC
Run
1230
Input
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Preprocessing
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:14 UTC
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Overall label
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Overall score
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OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated yellow sponge character with wide eyes, red mouth, orange shorts, and white shirt holding a star-tipped wand, standing on a white background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 16:53 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,389 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,109, response 742

Review tags

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  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • sponge (subject, 0.80)
  • star tipped wand (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • extending

Colors

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

Composition

  • character on white background
  • text on black background

Dense Caption

Yellow sponge character with large blue eyes, red mouth showing teeth, orange shorts with white trim, white shirt, and black shoes. Character holds a yellow star-tipped wand in the right hand, left hand extended. Text elements: 'who lives in a pineapple' (green, top-right), 'UNDER THE SEA' (green, bottom-left), 'SPONGE BOB' (green, bottom-right), 'SQUARE PANTS' (green, bottom-right). Background is white for character, black for text. Pixelated rendering style.

Description

Pixelated yellow sponge character with wide eyes, red mouth, orange shorts, and white shirt holding a star-tipped wand, standing on a white 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 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

  • spongebob squarepants pineapple sea
  • spongebob squarepants star wand
  • spongebob squarepants under the sea
  • spongebob squarepants yellow sponge
  • spongebob squarepants orange shorts
  • spongebob squarepants green text
  • spongebob squarepants pixelated
  • spongebob squarepants blue eyes

Objects

  • star-tipped wand

Style

  • pixelated
  • 8-bit

Subjects

  • sponge
  • star-tipped wand

Visible Text

  • who lives in a pineapple
  • UNDER
  • THE
  • SEA
  • SPONGE
  • BOB
  • SQUARE
  • PANTS

Visually Supported Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge
  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • orange shorts
  • white shirt
  • star-tipped wand
  • green text
  • black background
  • white background
  • pixelated
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:56 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
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Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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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
20070731122911253731435
Archive entry
20070731122911253731435.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:35 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#20070731122911253731435.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070731122911253731435.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016