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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, pink cheeks, and a red tie, waving against a blue gradient background.

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Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, pink cheeks, and a red tie, waving against a blue gradient background.

Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, pink cheeks, and a red tie, waving against a blue gradient background. 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered character
  • blue gradient background
  • waving hand on left
  • mouth open

Dense Caption

Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, pink cheeks, and a red tie, waving against a blue gradient background. The character has a wide open mouth with a pink tongue, white shirt, brown pants, and a dark blue cap. The background is a blue gradient with purple and light blue tones. The image is a static pixel art style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, pink cheeks, and a red tie, waving against a blue gradient 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20070728120409843966748

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow sponge character blue eyes
  • sponge character red tie
  • waving sponge character
  • blue gradient background sponge
  • pixelated sponge character
  • sponge character pink cheeks
  • sponge character brown pants
  • sponge character dark blue cap

Wordwall

  • yellow sponge
  • blue eyes
  • pink cheeks
  • red tie
  • waving
  • blue gradient background
  • white shirt
  • brown pants
  • dark blue cap
  • wide open mouth
  • pink tongue
  • pixelated
  • static
  • blue gradient
  • purple tones
  • light blue tones
  • visible pixelation
  • sponge character
  • waving hand
  • mouth open
  • tongue visible

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20070728120409843966748
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
2.5 KB
Motion
Still image
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/f2/f27f005b10ac34c5e314632bffd5e98c39db3a49d4499407bd0fd8e0a21dc864.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 UTC
Archive ID
f27f005b10ac34c5
SHA-256
f27f005b10ac34c5e314632bffd5e98c39db3a49d4499407bd0fd8e0a21dc864
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 07:23 UTC
Run
107
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.065309

OpenAI category scores

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Enrichment records (2)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, pink cheeks, and a red tie, waving against a blue gradient background.

Reviewed
August 25, 2026 at 15:34 UTC
Run
69
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,764 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,090, response 741

Review tags

  • tongue visible (action, 0.80)
  • waving (action, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • cheerful (mood, 0.80)
  • happy (mood, 0.80)
  • brown pants (object, 0.80)
  • dark blue cap (object, 0.80)
  • red tie (object, 0.80)
  • white shirt (object, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • static (style, 0.80)
  • sponge character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • waving
  • tongue visible

Colors

  • yellow
  • blue
  • pink
  • red
  • white
  • brown
  • purple
  • light blue

Composition

  • centered character
  • blue gradient background
  • waving hand on left
  • mouth open

Dense Caption

Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, pink cheeks, and a red tie, waving against a blue gradient background. The character has a wide open mouth with a pink tongue, white shirt, brown pants, and a dark blue cap. The background is a blue gradient with purple and light blue tones. The image is a static pixel art style with visible pixelation.

Description

  • Pixelated yellow sponge character with blue eyes, pink cheeks, and a red tie, waving against a blue gradient 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 collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 20070728120409843966748

Mood

  • happy
  • cheerful

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  • sponge character red tie
  • waving sponge character
  • blue gradient background sponge
  • pixelated sponge character
  • sponge character pink cheeks
  • sponge character brown pants
  • sponge character dark blue cap

Objects

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  • white shirt
  • brown pants
  • dark blue cap

Style

  • pixel art
  • static

Subjects

  • sponge character

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  • pixelated
  • static
  • blue gradient
  • purple tones
  • light blue tones
  • visible pixelation
  • sponge character
  • waving hand
  • mouth open
  • tongue visible
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wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smarterror
Reviewed
July 27, 2026 at 09:34 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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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
20070728120409843966748
Archive entry
20070728120409843966748.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 14:34 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#20070728120409843966748.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20070728120409843966748.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016