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Pixelated yellow sponge character with wide eyes, open mouth showing pink tongue and teeth, wearing brown shorts against light blue background.

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Pixelated yellow sponge character with wide eyes, open mouth showing pink tongue and teeth, wearing brown shorts against light blue background.

Pixelated yellow sponge character with wide eyes, open mouth showing pink tongue and teeth, wearing brown shorts against light blue background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Inter…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Actions

  • mouth open

Composition

  • centered character
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated depiction of a yellow sponge-like character with large white eyes containing small black pupils. The character has an open mouth revealing a red interior, visible pink tongue, and two prominent white teeth. It wears dark brown shorts that appear to be slightly loose-fitting. The background is a light blue gradient with subtle darker blue pixels scattered throughout. At the bottom of the image, there is a black bar containing white pixelated text reading "Spongebob" in lowercase letters.

Description

Pixelated yellow sponge character with wide eyes, open mouth showing pink tongue and teeth, wearing brown shorts against light blue background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080626124244535272641
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • Spongebob

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow sponge character brown shorts
  • Spongebob pixel art text
  • open mouth pink tongue teeth
  • blue background cartoon character

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled from lower resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • 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

  • Spongebob

Visually Supported Entities

  • Spongebob

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge character
  • wide eyes
  • open mouth
  • pink tongue
  • white teeth
  • brown shorts
  • light blue background
  • pixelated text
  • Spongebob
  • lowercase text

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080626124244535272641
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.7 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/a4/a48a6da5c692e959dadd24aa746cbbaa35c6afc3d8ee175a096e953367fac7a6.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 UTC
Archive ID
a48a6da5c692e959
SHA-256
a48a6da5c692e959dadd24aa746cbbaa35c6afc3d8ee175a096e953367fac7a6
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:20 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.071579

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated yellow sponge character with wide eyes, open mouth showing pink tongue and teeth, wearing brown shorts against light blue background.

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 08:47 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,220 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,086, response 813

Review tags

  • mouth open (action, 0.80)
  • tongue visible (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • excited (mood, 0.80)
  • surprised (mood, 0.80)
  • shorts (object, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • sponge like character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • mouth open
  • tongue visible

Colors

  • yellow
  • white
  • blue
  • red
  • pink
  • brown
  • black

Composition

  • centered character
  • text at bottom

Dense Caption

The image shows a pixelated depiction of a yellow sponge-like character with large white eyes containing small black pupils. The character has an open mouth revealing a red interior, visible pink tongue, and two prominent white teeth. It wears dark brown shorts that appear to be slightly loose-fitting. The background is a light blue gradient with subtle darker blue pixels scattered throughout. At the bottom of the image, there is a black bar containing white pixelated text reading "Spongebob" in lowercase letters.

Description

Pixelated yellow sponge character with wide eyes, open mouth showing pink tongue and teeth, wearing brown shorts against light blue background.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • 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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20080626124244535272641
  • franksicons

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • surprised
  • excited

Named Entities

  • Spongebob

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow sponge character brown shorts
  • Spongebob pixel art text
  • open mouth pink tongue teeth
  • blue background cartoon character

Objects

  • shorts

Preprocessing Notes

  • image appears to be upscaled from lower resolution

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007-2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
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  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • sponge-like character

Visible Text

  • Spongebob

Visually Supported Entities

  • Spongebob

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge character
  • wide eyes
  • open mouth
  • pink tongue
  • white teeth
  • brown shorts
  • light blue background
  • pixelated text
  • Spongebob
  • lowercase text
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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
20080626124244535272641
Archive entry
20080626124244535272641.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:31 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#20080626124244535272641.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080626124244535272641.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016