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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, orange shorts, and white shirt stands against white background holding star-tipped wand.

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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, orange shorts, and white shirt stands against white background holding star-tipped wand.

Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, orange shorts, and white shirt stands against white background holding star-tipped wand. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • split background: white left, yellow right
  • text on right side
  • character centered-left

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated sponge character with large blue eyes, wide open red mouth showing teeth, wearing white short-sleeve shirt under orange-red striped shorts. Character holds small black-and-yellow star-tipped wand in raised right hand; left arm extended outward. Background is solid white on left side of image. Right side features bright yellow background with purple pixelated text "I Love This Guy" arranged vertically.

Description

Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, orange shorts, and white shirt stands against white background holding star-tipped wand.

Fandoms

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Identity Hypotheses

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow sponge character orange shorts
  • purple text I Love This Guy
  • star-tipped wand yellow background
  • pixelated cartoon character white background

Visible Text

  • I Love This Guy

Visually Supported Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge character
  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • orange shorts
  • white shirt
  • star-tipped wand
  • purple text
  • bright yellow background
  • solid white background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2007111813112944929009
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
1.8 KB
Motion
Animated (2 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 14:58 UTC
Archive ID
d20b531edf507372
SHA-256
d20b531edf507372ab1e7f46f7b2c165590658879930d81036d968183fd302ea
Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
July 27, 2026 at 12:46 UTC
Run
1196
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000018

OpenAI category scores

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 06:48 UTC
Run
106
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Overall label
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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, orange shorts, and white shirt stands against white background holding star-tipped wand.

Reviewed
July 28, 2026 at 19:58 UTC
Run
53
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,755 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,144, response 577

Review tags

  • holding (action, 0.80)
  • standing (action, 0.80)
  • waving implied (action, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • star tipped wand (object, 0.80)
  • cartoonish (style, 0.80)
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  • sponge character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • holding
  • standing
  • waving (implied)

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • red
  • orange
  • white
  • purple
  • black

Composition

  • split background: white left, yellow right
  • text on right side
  • character centered-left

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated sponge character with large blue eyes, wide open red mouth showing teeth, wearing white short-sleeve shirt under orange-red striped shorts. Character holds small black-and-yellow star-tipped wand in raised right hand; left arm extended outward. Background is solid white on left side of image. Right side features bright yellow background with purple pixelated text "I Love This Guy" arranged vertically.

Description

Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, orange shorts, and white shirt stands against white background holding star-tipped wand.

Fandoms

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Identity Hypotheses

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Mood

  • happy
  • cheerful

Named Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow sponge character orange shorts
  • purple text I Love This Guy
  • star-tipped wand yellow background
  • pixelated cartoon character white background

Objects

  • star-tipped wand

Style

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • cartoonish

Subjects

  • sponge character

Visible Text

  • I Love This Guy

Visually Supported Entities

  • SpongeBob SquarePants

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge character
  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • orange shorts
  • white shirt
  • star-tipped wand
  • purple text
  • bright yellow background
  • solid white background
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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
2007111813112944929009
Archive entry
2007111813112944929009.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:58 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#2007111813112944929009.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2007111813112944929009.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016