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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts, holding a golden star wand against white background.

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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts, holding a golden star wand against white background.

Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts, holding a golden star wand against white background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Interne…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • character centered-left
  • text top-right
  • text bottom-left
  • text bottom-right

Dense Caption

Yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts holds a golden star wand in right hand; left hand is extended. Character has wide smile with visible teeth and blushing cheeks. Background is solid white. Text elements include "Otiss" in blue pixelated font top-right, "loves" in blue pixelated font bottom-left, and "Spongebob" in blue pixelated font bottom-right. Character is rendered in low-resolution pixel art style with visible dithering and blocky edges.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts, holding a golden star wand against white background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Spongebob

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

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20111109125123214882539
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Named Entities

  • Spongebob

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sponge character with star wand
  • Spongebob loves Otiss
  • blue pixelated text on white background
  • yellow sponge character

Visible Text

  • Otiss
  • loves
  • Spongebob

Visually Supported Entities

  • Spongebob

Wordwall

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  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • orange shorts
  • golden star wand
  • blushing cheeks
  • wide smile
  • blue pixelated text
  • white background
  • low-resolution pixel art

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July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20111109125123214882539
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 UTC

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Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.9 KB
Motion
Animated (4 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 16:09 UTC
Archive ID
bc9d98fe9b06b7ac
SHA-256
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Assessed
August 10, 2026 at 14:14 UTC
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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts, holding a golden star wand against white background.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 01:14 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,300 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,108, response 723

Review tags

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  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • golden star wand (object, 0.80)
  • dithered (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • sponge character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • smiling
  • extending hand

Colors

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

Composition

  • character centered-left
  • text top-right
  • text bottom-left
  • text bottom-right

Dense Caption

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Description

  • Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts, holding a golden star wand against white background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • Spongebob

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

Metadata Only Entities

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  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20111109125123214882539
  • Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Mood

  • happy
  • cheerful

Named Entities

  • Spongebob

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • Spongebob loves Otiss
  • blue pixelated text on white background
  • yellow sponge character

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  • golden star wand

Style

  • pixel art
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  • sponge character

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  • loves
  • Spongebob

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  • red mouth
  • orange shorts
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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
20111109125123214882539
Archive entry
20111109125123214882539.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:09 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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