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Pixelated yellow square character with large blue eyes, brown mouth, and white collar, standing above a gray grid-like structure with partial text.

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Pixelated yellow square character with large blue eyes, brown mouth, and white collar, standing above a gray grid-like structure with partial text.

Pixelated yellow square character with large blue eyes, brown mouth, and white collar, standing above a gray grid-like structure with partial text. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered character
  • text below character
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

Yellow square-shaped character with large blue eyes featuring white highlights and dark blue pupils, brown mouth with visible teeth, white collar, and a red tie. The character stands above a gray grid-like structure with partial text reading 'BUTT' and 'SQUID' in blocky, pixelated letters. The background is solid black. The image is highly pixelated with visible dithering and color blending typical of low-resolution digital art from the early 2000s.

Description

Pixelated yellow square character with large blue eyes, brown mouth, and white collar, standing above a gray grid-like structure with partial text.

Fandoms

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Identity Hypotheses

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • 200708131910581958962905

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • SpongeBob SquarePants pixel art
  • yellow square character blue eyes
  • BUTT SQUID text
  • SpongeBob SquarePants grid structure
  • SpongeBob SquarePants red tie
  • SpongeBob SquarePants white collar
  • SpongeBob SquarePants brown mouth
  • SpongeBob SquarePants pixelated art

Preprocessing Notes

  • highly pixelated
  • dithering visible
  • color blending present

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

Visible Text

  • BUTT
  • SQUID

Visually Supported Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Wordwall

  • yellow square character
  • blue eyes
  • brown mouth
  • white collar
  • red tie
  • gray grid structure
  • pixelated art
  • black background
  • partial text 'BUTT'
  • partial text 'SQUID'

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200708131910581958962905
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.1 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/b8/b8478620c967e685ff2765ff3547e560c8d5898978165838f965026db439e630.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 UTC
Archive ID
b8478620c967e685
SHA-256
b8478620c967e685ff2765ff3547e560c8d5898978165838f965026db439e630
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:32 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.083262

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.916738onnx/unsafe0.083262onnx/nsfw0.046399onnx/nsfl0.036863
Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated yellow square character with large blue eyes, brown mouth, and white collar, standing above a gray grid-like structure with partial text.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 23:14 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,799 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,096, response 848

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • neutral (mood, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • yellow square character (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • brown
  • white
  • red
  • gray
  • black

Composition

  • centered character
  • text below character
  • solid black background

Dense Caption

Yellow square-shaped character with large blue eyes featuring white highlights and dark blue pupils, brown mouth with visible teeth, white collar, and a red tie. The character stands above a gray grid-like structure with partial text reading 'BUTT' and 'SQUID' in blocky, pixelated letters. The background is solid black. The image is highly pixelated with visible dithering and color blending typical of low-resolution digital art from the early 2000s.

Description

Pixelated yellow square character with large blue eyes, brown mouth, and white collar, standing above a gray grid-like structure with partial text.

Fandoms

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Identity Hypotheses

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • 200708131910581958962905

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • neutral

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • SpongeBob SquarePants pixel art
  • yellow square character blue eyes
  • BUTT SQUID text
  • SpongeBob SquarePants grid structure
  • SpongeBob SquarePants red tie
  • SpongeBob SquarePants white collar
  • SpongeBob SquarePants brown mouth
  • SpongeBob SquarePants pixelated art

Objects

  • gray grid structure

Preprocessing Notes

  • highly pixelated
  • dithering visible
  • color blending present

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

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • dithered

Subjects

  • yellow square character

Visible Text

  • BUTT
  • SQUID

Visually Supported Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Wordwall

  • yellow square character
  • blue eyes
  • brown mouth
  • white collar
  • red tie
  • gray grid structure
  • pixelated art
  • black background
  • partial text 'BUTT'
  • partial text 'SQUID'
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 11:32 UTC
Run
52
Version
v5
Elapsed
0 ms
Error
No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (127.0.0.1:11435)
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Source semantic tags (2)
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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
200708131910581958962905
Archive entry
200708131910581958962905.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:38 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#200708131910581958962905.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200708131910581958962905.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016