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Four identical display white text on a blue spiral background with black outlines

Four identical display white text on a blue spiral background with black outlines. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons…, Late-20…

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Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • centered text
  • consistent pattern

Dense Caption

The image consists of four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel features the text 'HATE IT BUT I CAN'T STOP' in white, pixelated, uppercase letters. The text is centered within a blue spiral background that has black outlines. The spiral pattern is consistent across all four panels. The background behind the spiral is black. The text and spiral pattern are identical in all four panels, with no visible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical display white text on a blue spiral background with black outlines

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

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • HATE IT BUT I CAN'T STOP
  • blue spiral text
  • pixelated text
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical panels display white text on a blue spiral background with black outlines.
  • quarantined wordwall: layout: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 text panels
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid

Visible Text

  • HATE
  • IT
  • BUT
  • I CAN'T
  • STOP

Wordwall

  • text: HATE IT BUT I CAN'T STOP
  • text color: white
  • background: blue spiral
  • spiral outline: black
  • background color: black
  • layout
  • text style: pixelated
  • text case: uppercase
  • text alignment: centered
  • pattern: spiral

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2008121415235311243223
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
4.6 KB
Motion
Animated (4 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/9c/9cac6394bc877fbebf34af4ef90ea5e24de78fd3e042e0cd5cca1a3055fcdbcc.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 UTC
Archive ID
9cac6394bc877fbe
SHA-256
9cac6394bc877fbebf34af4ef90ea5e24de78fd3e042e0cd5cca1a3055fcdbcc
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 18, 2026 at 13:50 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000673

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagharassment0.000673falseself-harm0.000541falseviolence0.000483falseself-harm/intent0.000241falsesexual0.000034falsehate0.000012falseillicit0.000008falseviolence/graphic0.000007falseharassment/threatening0.000006falseself-harm/instructions0.000002falseillicit/violent0.000001falsesexual/minors0.000000falsehate/threatening0.000000false

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EvidenceStrengthInputenrichment/ocr/hate-or-harassment1.000000textenrichment/visual/hate-or-harassment0.500000image
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:16 UTC
Run
1135
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.081212

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926679onnx/unsafe0.081212onnx/nsfw0.047607onnx/nsfl0.033605
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Four identical display white text on a blue spiral background with black outlines

Reviewed
August 18, 2026 at 13:45 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
9,419 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,098, response 606

Review tags

  • black (color, 0.80)
  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • conflicted (mood, 0.80)
  • repetitive (mood, 0.80)
  • pixelated (style, 0.80)
  • spiral background (style, 0.80)
  • text based (style, 0.80)

Colors

  • blue
  • black
  • white

Composition

  • centered text
  • consistent pattern

Dense Caption

The image consists of four identical panels arranged in a 2x2 grid. Each panel features the text 'HATE IT BUT I CAN'T STOP' in white, pixelated, uppercase letters. The text is centered within a blue spiral background that has black outlines. The spiral pattern is consistent across all four panels. The background behind the spiral is black. The text and spiral pattern are identical in all four panels, with no visible differences between them.

Description

  • Four identical display white text on a blue spiral background with black outlines

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

Mood

  • conflicted
  • repetitive

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • HATE IT BUT I CAN'T STOP
  • blue spiral text
  • pixelated text
  • text

Preprocessing Notes

  • quarantined description: Four identical panels display white text on a blue spiral background with black outlines.
  • quarantined wordwall: layout: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined composition: 2x2 grid
  • quarantined retrieval: 2x2 text panels
  • quarantined retrieval: pixelated text grid

Style

  • pixelated
  • text-based
  • spiral background

Visible Text

  • HATE
  • IT
  • BUT
  • I CAN'T
  • STOP

Wordwall

  • text: HATE IT BUT I CAN'T STOP
  • text color: white
  • background: blue spiral
  • spiral outline: black
  • background color: black
  • layout
  • text style: pixelated
  • text case: uppercase
  • text alignment: centered
  • pattern: spiral
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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
2008121415235311243223
Archive entry
2008121415235311243223.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:46 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#2008121415235311243223.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2008121415235311243223.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016