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

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

Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts holding a yellow star-shaped object against white and red background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy i…

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Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • left character
  • right text

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts; right hand holds yellow star-shaped object; left hand extended; white background on left, solid red background on right; black pixelated text 'lalalalala' on red background; character has wide smile showing teeth; pixelation creates blocky appearance; no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

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

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • sponge character yellow star
  • yellow sponge red mouth
  • lalalalala text red background
  • sponge character orange shorts
  • yellow star object white background
  • sponge character blue eyes
  • sponge character extended hand
  • sponge character pixelated

Visible Text

  • lalalalala

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge
  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • orange shorts
  • yellow star
  • white background
  • red background
  • black text
  • pixelated
  • wide smile
  • star-shaped object
  • extended left hand
  • lalalalala text
  • blocky appearance
  • teeth visible
  • yellow star object
  • red background text
  • sponge character

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080831150236128960766
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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 15:37 UTC
Archive ID
e7c141a0a5d9d3eb
SHA-256
e7c141a0a5d9d3eb953eef096ededf59903e841ac0c218eeb3911add26c38c5a
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:40 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
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Overall label
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Overall score
0.124330

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

Reviewed
August 17, 2026 at 22:23 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,658 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 721

Review tags

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  • orange (color, 0.80)
  • red (color, 0.80)
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  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • star shaped object (object, 0.80)
  • blocky (style, 0.80)
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Actions

  • holding
  • extending

Colors

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

Composition

  • left character
  • right text

Dense Caption

Yellow pixelated sponge character with blue eyes, red mouth, and orange shorts; right hand holds yellow star-shaped object; left hand extended; white background on left, solid red background on right; black pixelated text 'lalalalala' on red background; character has wide smile showing teeth; pixelation creates blocky appearance; no visible motion or animation changes.

Description

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

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
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: historical-archive

Mood

  • happy

Non Redundant Search Phrases

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  • yellow sponge red mouth
  • lalalalala text red background
  • sponge character orange shorts
  • yellow star object white background
  • sponge character blue eyes
  • sponge character extended hand
  • sponge character pixelated

Objects

  • star-shaped object

Style

  • pixelated
  • blocky

Subjects

  • sponge character

Visible Text

  • lalalalala

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  • blue eyes
  • red mouth
  • orange shorts
  • yellow star
  • white background
  • red background
  • black text
  • pixelated
  • wide smile
  • star-shaped object
  • extended left hand
  • lalalalala text
  • blocky appearance
  • teeth visible
  • yellow star object
  • red background text
  • sponge character
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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
20080831150236128960766
Archive entry
20080831150236128960766.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:37 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#20080831150236128960766.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080831150236128960766.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016