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Pixelated animation of two yellow figures on a boat fishing, with 'Free Ride' text below each frame.

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Pixelated animation of two yellow figures on a boat fishing, with 'Free Ride' text below each frame.

Pixelated animation of two yellow figures on a boat fishing, with 'Free Ride' text below each frame. Animated 49×49 GIF AIM buddy icon from Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GI…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • sequential arm movements
  • fishing motion
  • cycling frames

Animation Summary

  • The animation cycles through sequential arm movements of two yellow figures fishing on a boat, with 'Free Ride' text below each frame.

Composition

  • horizontal
  • text below
  • cropped section

Dense Caption

Two yellow figures with white circular heads sit on a brown boat against a bright blue background. Each figure holds a brown fishing rod with a green lure. The figures' arms move in a fishing motion across frames. Gray bars below each frame contain 'Free Ride' text in white pixelated font. The animation shows sequential arm movements: left figure's arm raises, both figures lower rods, left figure's arm lowers, right figure's arm raises. The boat and background remain static. The animation cycles through these movements. The bottom-left frame shows a cropped version of the animation.

Description

  • Pixelated animation of two yellow figures on a boat fishing, with 'Free Ride' text below each frame.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow figures fishing boat
  • Free Ride text animation
  • pixelated fishing animation
  • two figures fishing
  • bright blue background fishing
  • gray bars Free Ride text
  • cropped fishing animation
  • 2000s digital animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • Cropped frame in bottom-left corner
  • quarantined composition: repeated frames
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 28124
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 28124
  • 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

  • Free Ride

Wordwall

  • two yellow figures
  • white circular heads
  • brown boat
  • brown fishing rods
  • green lures
  • bright blue background
  • gray bars
  • Free Ride text
  • pixelated animation
  • sequential arm movements
  • cropped frame

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Added to archive
July 13, 2026

Wayback Ballericons Native Icon-Path GIFs

Source title
28124
Category
icon
Era
Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:41 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
49×49 pixels
File size
4 KB
Motion
Animated (10 frames)
Added to archive
July 13, 2026
Relative path
icons/af/af0d3210e740c5b642bc8fead17b66ccb569e90059692ec1144486d0431814c7.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 13, 2026 at 05:41 UTC
Archive ID
af0d3210e740c5b6
SHA-256
af0d3210e740c5b642bc8fead17b66ccb569e90059692ec1144486d0431814c7
Content-safety assessments (1)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:26 UTC
Run
1136
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.088499

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.916916onnx/unsafe0.088499onnx/nsfw0.048123onnx/nsfl0.040376
Enrichment records (1)
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Pixelated animation of two yellow figures on a boat fishing, with 'Free Ride' text below each frame.

Reviewed
August 20, 2026 at 07:23 UTC
Run
62
Version
v5
Elapsed
11,721 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,083, response 975

Review tags

  • arm movements (action, 0.80)
  • fishing (action, 0.80)
  • yellow (color, 0.80)
  • lighthearted (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • brown fishing rods (object, 0.80)
  • green lures (object, 0.80)
  • 2000s digital (style, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • brown boat (subject, 0.80)
  • two yellow figures (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • fishing
  • arm movements

Animation

  • sequential arm movements
  • fishing motion
  • cycling frames

Animation Summary

  • The animation cycles through sequential arm movements of two yellow figures fishing on a boat, with 'Free Ride' text below each frame.

Colors

  • yellow
  • white
  • brown
  • green
  • bright blue
  • gray

Composition

  • horizontal
  • text below
  • cropped section

Dense Caption

Two yellow figures with white circular heads sit on a brown boat against a bright blue background. Each figure holds a brown fishing rod with a green lure. The figures' arms move in a fishing motion across frames. Gray bars below each frame contain 'Free Ride' text in white pixelated font. The animation shows sequential arm movements: left figure's arm raises, both figures lower rods, left figure's arm lowers, right figure's arm raises. The boat and background remain static. The animation cycles through these movements. The bottom-left frame shows a cropped version of the animation.

Description

  • Pixelated animation of two yellow figures on a boat fishing, with 'Free Ride' text below each frame.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Only Entities

  • provenance topic-coverage: attitude
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: college
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance era: Early-to-Mid-2000s Mainstream AIM Portal
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Mood

  • playful
  • lighthearted

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • yellow figures fishing boat
  • Free Ride text animation
  • pixelated fishing animation
  • two figures fishing
  • bright blue background fishing
  • gray bars Free Ride text
  • cropped fishing animation
  • 2000s digital animation

Objects

  • brown fishing rods
  • green lures

Preprocessing Notes

  • Cropped frame in bottom-left corner
  • quarantined composition: repeated frames
  • quarantined composition: horizontal rows

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • collection identity (curated-homogeneous; search): ballericons
  • observation alt-text (curated-homogeneous): 28124
  • observation category (curated-homogeneous): icon
  • observation file-name (curated-homogeneous): 28124
  • 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

  • pixelated
  • low-resolution
  • 2000s digital

Subjects

  • two yellow figures
  • brown boat

Visible Text

  • Free Ride

Wordwall

  • two yellow figures
  • white circular heads
  • brown boat
  • brown fishing rods
  • green lures
  • bright blue background
  • gray bars
  • Free Ride text
  • pixelated animation
  • sequential arm movements
  • cropped frame
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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
28124
Observed
July 13, 2026 at 05:41 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/28124.gif Download: https://web.archive.org/web/20010821170111id_/http://ballericons.com:80/icon/28124.gif