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Brown background with green text reading "I HATE ALEX" repeated twice, and a distorted pixelated pattern below.

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Brown background with green text reading "I HATE ALEX" repeated twice, and a distorted pixelated pattern below.

Brown background with green text reading "I HATE ALEX" repeated twice, and a distorted pixelated pattern below. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons…

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Depicts

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Composition

  • horizontal symmetry
  • centered text
  • bottom pixelated band

Dense Caption

Brown background. Two identical instances of dark green blocky text: top line "I", middle line "HATE", bottom line "ALEX". Both text blocks are horizontally centered. Below the text is a horizontal band of heavily pixelated blue and brown shapes resembling distorted figures or abstract forms with visible noise artifacts.

Description

  • Brown background with green text reading "I HATE ALEX" repeated twice, and a distorted pixelated pattern below.

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

Named Entities

  • ALEX

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown background green text I HATE ALEX
  • pixelated blue brown pattern
  • two identical I HATE ALEX texts
  • distorted pixel art angry message

Visible Text

  • I
  • HATE
  • ALEX

Visually Supported Entities

  • ALEX

Wordwall

  • brown background
  • green blocky text
  • "I HATE ALEX"
  • two identical text instances
  • pixelated blue/brown pattern

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20080310135025316367299
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC

Original record Source download Source page

Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
719 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/c9/c9547bc56fb124a485fb4e3c3b40c044d402eddf4abe743628f05bbbd13bd406.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 UTC
Archive ID
c9547bc56fb124a4
SHA-256
c9547bc56fb124a485fb4e3c3b40c044d402eddf4abe743628f05bbbd13bd406
Content-safety assessments (2)
openaiomni-moderation-latestnarrow
Assessed
August 4, 2026 at 06:11 UTC
Run
1266
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.195583

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagharassment0.195583falseviolence0.001243falsehate0.001193falseharassment/threatening0.000815falseself-harm0.000460falseself-harm/intent0.000212falsesexual0.000091falseillicit0.000022falseviolence/graphic0.000015falsehate/threatening0.000003falsesexual/minors0.000003falseself-harm/instructions0.000003falseillicit/violent0.000002false

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 23, 2026 at 19:41 UTC
Run
1140
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.093744

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.911123onnx/unsafe0.093744onnx/nsfw0.055939onnx/nsfl0.037805
Enrichment records (1)
wordwall-v1qwen3-vl:30bcontact-sheet-smartok

Brown background with green text reading "I HATE ALEX" repeated twice, and a distorted pixelated pattern below.

Reviewed
August 4, 2026 at 06:04 UTC
Run
57
Version
v5
Elapsed
7,281 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,140, response 580

Review tags

  • blue (color, 0.80)
  • brown (color, 0.80)
  • green (color, 0.80)
  • aggressive (mood, 0.80)
  • angry (mood, 0.80)
  • blocky text (style, 0.80)
  • distorted pattern (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • pixelated figures (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Colors

  • brown
  • green
  • blue

Composition

  • horizontal symmetry
  • centered text
  • bottom pixelated band

Dense Caption

Brown background. Two identical instances of dark green blocky text: top line "I", middle line "HATE", bottom line "ALEX". Both text blocks are horizontally centered. Below the text is a horizontal band of heavily pixelated blue and brown shapes resembling distorted figures or abstract forms with visible noise artifacts.

Description

  • Brown background with green text reading "I HATE ALEX" repeated twice, and a distorted pixelated pattern below.

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

  • angry
  • aggressive

Named Entities

  • ALEX

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • brown background green text I HATE ALEX
  • pixelated blue brown pattern
  • two identical I HATE ALEX texts
  • distorted pixel art angry message

Style

  • blocky text
  • pixel art
  • distorted pattern

Subjects

  • text
  • pixelated figures

Visible Text

  • I
  • HATE
  • ALEX

Visually Supported Entities

  • ALEX

Wordwall

  • brown background
  • green blocky text
  • "I HATE ALEX"
  • two identical text instances
  • pixelated blue/brown pattern
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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
20080310135025316367299
Archive entry
20080310135025316367299.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:18 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#20080310135025316367299.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20080310135025316367299.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016