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Pixelated animation of a small character moving across a bridge over water, with repeated 'GreasyPole' text below.

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Pixelated animation of a small character moving across a bridge over water, with repeated 'GreasyPole' text below.

Pixelated animation of a small character moving across a bridge over water, with repeated 'GreasyPole' text below. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Nativ…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • character moves right
  • character falls
  • water splashes appear

Animation Summary

  • Character moves right across bridge, falls into water, creates blue splashes.

Composition

  • horizontal bridge
  • repeating text
  • water below
  • gray background

Dense Caption

The animation shows a small pixelated character moving across a wooden bridge structure with brown X-shaped supports and yellow-blue railings. The bridge spans blue water with a wavy edge. The character starts on the left, moves right, and falls into the water, creating blue splash effects. The text 'GreasyPole' repeats in white pixelated letters on a blue background below the bridge. The background is gray. The animation shows three distinct states: character on bridge, character mid-air, and character in water with splashes.

Description

  • Pixelated animation of a small character moving across a bridge over water, with repeated 'GreasyPole' text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • greasy pole animation
  • pixelated bridge water
  • greasy pole text
  • character falls water
  • 8-bit bridge animation
  • blue splash pixel art
  • greasy pole water
  • pixelated character movement

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion blur
  • no transparency
  • no anti-aliasing

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 20990
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 20990
  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • GreasyPole

Visually Supported Entities

  • GreasyPole

Wordwall

  • wooden bridge
  • blue water
  • yellow-blue railings
  • brown X supports
  • pixelated character
  • GreasyPole text
  • blue splash effects
  • gray background
  • character movement
  • waterfall

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
20990
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 04:52 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
6.2 KB
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/8d/8d8f5913cd16278f18e8023589fa6d571f7642e936d9d75f520e55ab989b555d.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 04:52 UTC
Archive ID
8d8f5913cd16278f
SHA-256
8d8f5913cd16278f18e8023589fa6d571f7642e936d9d75f520e55ab989b555d
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:43 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.084589

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.918626onnx/unsafe0.084589onnx/nsfw0.045611onnx/nsfl0.038978
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Pixelated animation of a small character moving across a bridge over water, with repeated 'GreasyPole' text below.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 06:46 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,584 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,088, response 1,026

Review tags

  • creates splashes (action, 0.80)
  • falls (action, 0.80)
  • moves (action, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • blue water (object, 0.80)
  • brown x supports (object, 0.80)
  • wooden bridge (object, 0.80)
  • yellow blue railings (object, 0.80)
  • 8 bit (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • small pixelated character (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • moves
  • falls
  • creates splashes

Animation

  • character moves right
  • character falls
  • water splashes appear

Animation Summary

  • Character moves right across bridge, falls into water, creates blue splashes.

Colors

  • brown
  • blue
  • yellow
  • gray
  • white

Composition

  • horizontal bridge
  • repeating text
  • water below
  • gray background

Dense Caption

The animation shows a small pixelated character moving across a wooden bridge structure with brown X-shaped supports and yellow-blue railings. The bridge spans blue water with a wavy edge. The character starts on the left, moves right, and falls into the water, creating blue splash effects. The text 'GreasyPole' repeats in white pixelated letters on a blue background below the bridge. The background is gray. The animation shows three distinct states: character on bridge, character mid-air, and character in water with splashes.

Description

  • Pixelated animation of a small character moving across a bridge over water, with repeated 'GreasyPole' text below.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • greasy pole animation
  • pixelated bridge water
  • greasy pole text
  • character falls water
  • 8-bit bridge animation
  • blue splash pixel art
  • greasy pole water
  • pixelated character movement

Objects

  • wooden bridge
  • blue water
  • yellow-blue railings
  • brown X supports

Preprocessing Notes

  • no motion blur
  • no transparency
  • no anti-aliasing

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 20990
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 20990
  • provenance era: 2002
  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance source-name: Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs
  • provenance collection-attribute: 2000s
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • 8-bit
  • low-resolution

Subjects

  • small pixelated character

Visible Text

  • GreasyPole

Visually Supported Entities

  • GreasyPole

Wordwall

  • wooden bridge
  • blue water
  • yellow-blue railings
  • brown X supports
  • pixelated character
  • GreasyPole text
  • blue splash effects
  • gray background
  • character movement
  • waterfall
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Full source records (1)

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs (wayback-ballericons-icon-path-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration from the portal's primary /icon/ namespace
Category
icon
Alt
20990
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 04:52 UTC
Rights
mixed portal and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large humor, attitude, college, celebrity, video-game, holiday, and sports buddy-icon portal

Original: http://ballericons.com/icon/20990.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010907103833id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/20990.gif