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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red shorts, and white shirt, holding a star-topped wand, smiling widely with open mouth.

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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red shorts, and white shirt, holding a star-topped wand, smiling widely with open mouth.

Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red shorts, and white shirt, holding a star-topped wand, smiling widely with open mouth. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from I…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split background
  • character centered left
  • text right

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated sponge character with blue eyes, white shirt, red shorts, and black shoes. Character holds a star-topped wand in right hand, left hand extended. Mouth open in wide smile showing teeth and pink tongue. Background split: left side white, right side light beige. Text "Love" in black pixelated font on beige background. Character has greenish patches on body. Pixelation creates blocky appearance.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red shorts, and white shirt, holding a star-topped wand, smiling widely with open mouth.

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 Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • SpongeBob SquarePants pixelated
  • yellow sponge character
  • Love text
  • star-topped wand
  • red shorts blue eyes
  • split background beige white
  • waving hand smile
  • SpongeBob SquarePants cartoon

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in static image

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

  • cartoon

Visible Text

  • Love

Visually Supported Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge
  • blue eyes
  • red shorts
  • white shirt
  • black shoes
  • star-topped wand
  • wide smile
  • pink tongue
  • greenish patches
  • pixelated
  • split background
  • beige background
  • text Love
  • star wand
  • open mouth
  • white background
  • black font
  • waving hand
  • teeth
  • sponge texture

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
200908031402331173777876
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.7 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c4/c406d82c7a27e998b6a88d4d56867c2e6ecc9a052e4b46e596c716b2ca3ee315.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 UTC
Archive ID
c406d82c7a27e998
SHA-256
c406d82c7a27e998b6a88d4d56867c2e6ecc9a052e4b46e596c716b2ca3ee315
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:38 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.087180

OpenAI category scores

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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red shorts, and white shirt, holding a star-topped wand, smiling widely with open mouth.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 15:48 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,164 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,148, response 776

Review tags

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  • smiling (action, 0.80)
  • waving (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • star topped wand (object, 0.80)
  • cartoon (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • sponge character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • waving
  • smiling

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • red
  • white
  • black
  • green
  • beige

Composition

  • split background
  • character centered left
  • text right

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated sponge character with blue eyes, white shirt, red shorts, and black shoes. Character holds a star-topped wand in right hand, left hand extended. Mouth open in wide smile showing teeth and pink tongue. Background split: left side white, right side light beige. Text "Love" in black pixelated font on beige background. Character has greenish patches on body. Pixelation creates blocky appearance.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red shorts, and white shirt, holding a star-topped wand, smiling widely with open mouth.

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 Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • happy
  • cheerful

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • SpongeBob SquarePants pixelated
  • yellow sponge character
  • Love text
  • star-topped wand
  • red shorts blue eyes
  • split background beige white
  • waving hand smile
  • SpongeBob SquarePants cartoon

Objects

  • star-topped wand

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion detected in static image

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • 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

  • pixelated
  • cartoon

Subjects

  • sponge character

Visible Text

  • Love

Visually Supported Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge
  • blue eyes
  • red shorts
  • white shirt
  • black shoes
  • star-topped wand
  • wide smile
  • pink tongue
  • greenish patches
  • pixelated
  • split background
  • beige background
  • text Love
  • star wand
  • open mouth
  • white background
  • black font
  • waving hand
  • teeth
  • sponge texture
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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
200908031402331173777876
Archive entry
200908031402331173777876.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 16:01 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#200908031402331173777876.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#200908031402331173777876.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016