Two side-by-side pixelated text frames on black backgrounds with blue borders, displaying contrasting emotional phrases in red serif font.

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Two side-by-side pixelated text frames on black backgrounds with blue borders, displaying contrasting emotional phrases in red serif font.

Two side-by-side pixelated text frames on black backgrounds with blue borders, displaying contrasting emotional phrases in red serif font. Animated 54×54 GIF AIM buddy icon from W…

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Animation

  • frame-to-frame transition from "i hate you" to "but i love you" without movement or additional visual elements

Animation Summary

Static transition between two frames showing contrasting emotional phrases in identical red serif font on black backgrounds with blue borders

Composition

  • two side-by-side frames with identical layout and borders, each containing centered text on solid black backgrounds

Dense Caption

The image shows a contact sheet of two animated frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Both frames feature bold red serif text against solid black backgrounds with bright blue outer borders. The left frame displays the phrase "i hate you" with lowercase letters; the 'h' has a distinctive curved descender and the 't' features a sharp angled top. The right frame shows "but i love you" in identical font style, where the 'b' is fully formed while the 'u' appears slightly pixelated. Both frames exhibit classic 1990s digital art artifacts including visible dithering patterns on text edges and slight color bleeding between pixels. The animation consists of a static transition from the first phrase to the second without movement or additional visual elements beyond the changing text content.

Description

  • Two side-by-side pixelated text frames on black backgrounds with blue borders, displaying contrasting emotional phrases in red serif font.

Identity Hypotheses

AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon | basis both | confidence high | evidence: blue border, pixelated text style, contact sheet layout matching AIM era

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • category: confused (text shows contrasting love/hate rather than confusion)

Metadata Only Entities

  • longhorns Confused
  • myoldicons id 157893

Named Entities

  • AIM buddy icon

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • aol instant messenger buddy icon red text black background
  • 1990s digital art pixelated love hate text
  • aim contact sheet two frame animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 2x1; sampled frame count 2; source frame count 2; gray transparency background not visible in this contact sheet view

Safety Notes

  • text contains emotionally charged but non-explicit language; no nudity, gore, or hate symbols present

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • non-authoritative hints suggest 'confused' emotions and 'myoldicons' branding but do not match the actual emotional content of the text

Visible Text

  • i hate you
  • but i love you

Wordwall

  • red serif text
  • black background
  • blue border
  • pixelated text
  • lowercase letters
  • "i hate you" frame
  • "but i love you" frame
  • dithering on edges
  • text contrast
  • 1990s digital art
  • serif font style
  • curved descender on h
  • angled top on t
  • identical font across frames
  • blue outer border
  • black inner background
  • pixelated u in "you"
  • visible color bleeding
  • static animation transition
  • text-only icon

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

Wayback CDX OriginalIcons Image Icons GIF Captures

Source title
1125719364_839898165
Category
images / icons / emotions / confused
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 04:50 UTC

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / emotions / confused
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 08:31 UTC

Wayback CDX OriginalIcons Image Icons GIF Top Categories C

Source title
1125719364_839898165
Category
images / icons / emotions / confused
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:50 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
54×54 pixels
File size
1.4 KB
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/d1/d17db2f827ecfbdca39bad709ee7109022c696ca5c5701bf9ff5f15a0ac7b3dd.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:09 UTC
Archive ID
d17db2f827ecfbdc
SHA-256
d17db2f827ecfbdca39bad709ee7109022c696ca5c5701bf9ff5f15a0ac7b3dd
Content-safety assessments (3)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
July 21, 2026 at 06:51 UTC
Run
72
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.055038

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagharassment0.055038falseharassment/threatening0.000760falseviolence0.000589falseself-harm0.000472falseself-harm/intent0.000215falsesexual0.000105falsehate0.000103falseviolence/graphic0.000030falseillicit0.000018falsesexual/minors0.000003falseself-harm/instructions0.000002falseillicit/violent0.000002falsehate/threatening0.000002false

Qwen scheduling evidence

Evidence strength is retained for queueing and audit. It does not set the public content-safety verdict.

EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/ocr/hate-or-harassment1.000000textenrichment/visual/hate-or-harassment0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 21, 2026 at 00:55 UTC
Run
70
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.156014

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.882522onnx/unsafe0.156014onnx/nsfl0.084865onnx/nsfw0.071148
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 12, 2026 at 02:22 UTC
Run
28
Input
image
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-smart
Overall label
safe
Overall score
0.950000

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flaglegacy/manual-review0.000000falselegacy/nsfw0.000000false
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Two side-by-side pixelated text frames on black backgrounds with blue borders, displaying contrasting emotional phrases in red serif font.

Reviewed
July 12, 2026 at 02:22 UTC
Run
28
Version
v3
Elapsed
19,510 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,068, response 1,017

Review tags

  • static animation transition (animation, 0.95)
  • black background (color, 0.95)
  • blue border (color, 0.95)
  • pixelated text (style, 0.95)
  • red serif font (style, 0.95)
  • but i love you frame (text, 0.95)
  • i hate you frame (text, 0.95)
  • text contrast (composition, 0.90)
  • dithering on edges (rendering, 0.90)
  • 1990s digital art (style, 0.85)

Animation

  • frame-to-frame transition from "i hate you" to "but i love you" without movement or additional visual elements

Animation Summary

Static transition between two frames showing contrasting emotional phrases in identical red serif font on black backgrounds with blue borders

Colors

  • red
  • black
  • blue

Composition

  • two side-by-side frames with identical layout and borders, each containing centered text on solid black backgrounds

Dense Caption

The image shows a contact sheet of two animated frames from an AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon. Both frames feature bold red serif text against solid black backgrounds with bright blue outer borders. The left frame displays the phrase "i hate you" with lowercase letters; the 'h' has a distinctive curved descender and the 't' features a sharp angled top. The right frame shows "but i love you" in identical font style, where the 'b' is fully formed while the 'u' appears slightly pixelated. Both frames exhibit classic 1990s digital art artifacts including visible dithering patterns on text edges and slight color bleeding between pixels. The animation consists of a static transition from the first phrase to the second without movement or additional visual elements beyond the changing text content.

Description

  • Two side-by-side pixelated text frames on black backgrounds with blue borders, displaying contrasting emotional phrases in red serif font.

Identity Hypotheses

AOL Instant Messenger buddy icon | basis both | confidence high | evidence: blue border, pixelated text style, contact sheet layout matching AIM era

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • category: confused (text shows contrasting love/hate rather than confusion)

Metadata Only Entities

  • longhorns Confused
  • myoldicons id 157893

Mood

  • conflicting emotional tone

Named Entities

  • AIM buddy icon

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • aol instant messenger buddy icon red text black background
  • 1990s digital art pixelated love hate text
  • aim contact sheet two frame animation

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet layout 2x1; sampled frame count 2; source frame count 2; gray transparency background not visible in this contact sheet view

Safety Notes

  • text contains emotionally charged but non-explicit language; no nudity, gore, or hate symbols present

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • non-authoritative hints suggest 'confused' emotions and 'myoldicons' branding but do not match the actual emotional content of the text

Style

  • pixel art
  • serif font
  • 1990s digital graphics

Subjects

  • red text
  • black background
  • blue border

Visible Text

  • i hate you
  • but i love you

Wordwall

  • red serif text
  • black background
  • blue border
  • pixelated text
  • lowercase letters
  • "i hate you" frame
  • "but i love you" frame
  • dithering on edges
  • text contrast
  • 1990s digital art
  • serif font style
  • curved descender on h
  • angled top on t
  • identical font across frames
  • blue outer border
  • black inner background
  • pixelated u in "you"
  • visible color bleeding
  • static animation transition
  • text-only icon
Raw JSON
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Full source records (3)

Wayback CDX OriginalIcons Image Icons GIF Captures (wayback-originalicons-image-icons-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Type
Wayback historical portal crawl
Category
images / icons / emotions / confused
Alt
1125719364_839898165
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 04:50 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and uncertain provenance; research/reference only by default
Slice
OriginalIcons category image folders with celebrity, entertainment, holiday, and user-submitted buddy icons

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival (myoldicons-originalicons)

Kind
myoldicons-api
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Type
current recovered OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / emotions / confused
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
1124380987_724073598.gif | longhorns Confused | animated | myoldicons id 157893
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 08:31 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and user-submitted material; research/reference only by default
Slice
recovered large-scale AIM icon and away-message archive with category, subcategory, filename, keyword, and animation metadata

Wayback CDX OriginalIcons Image Icons GIF Top Categories C (wayback-originalicons-image-icons-gifs-top-categories-c)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-2000s Dedicated AIM Portal
Type
Wayback historical portal crawl
Category
images / icons / emotions / confused
Alt
1125719364_839898165
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 02:50 UTC
Rights
mixed copyright and uncertain provenance; research/reference only by default
Slice
focused OriginalIcons GIF category folders split from the broad /images/icons/ CDX target