A static contact sheet of two identical pixel art frames showing a quote in green, blue, and pink text on a gray background.

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A static contact sheet of two identical pixel art frames showing a quote in green, blue, and pink text on a gray background.

A static contact sheet of two identical pixel art frames showing a quote in green, blue, and pink text on a gray background. Animated 50×50 GIF AIM buddy icon from MyOldIcons / Or…

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Animation

  • no visible animation; two identical static frames with minor color variation in "HATED" and "LOVED" words between left/right frames

Animation Summary

  • Two identical static frames with minor color variations in specific words; no motion or character changes observed

Composition

  • two side-by-side frames
  • centered text layout
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image displays a 512x256 pixel contact sheet with two side-by-side identical frames (sampledFrameIndices [0,1]) against a solid gray background. Each frame contains the phrase "IT'S BETTER TO BE HATED FOR WHO YOU ARE RATHER THAN LOVED FOR WHO YOU'RE NOT" rendered in blocky 8-bit style text. The text uses three colors: most letters are light green (e.g., "IT'S BETTER TO", "BE HATED FOR", "WHO YOU ARE", "RATHER THAN", "LOVED FOR WHO", "YOU'RE NOT"). In the right frame, the word "HATED" is blue instead of green. The left frame's "LOVED" is pink while the right frame uses light green for all text except "HATED". All letters are uppercase with a pixelated font style typical of early digital art or retro games. There are no visible characters, objects, or additional graphics beyond the colored text on gray background.

Description

  • A static contact sheet of two identical pixel art frames showing a quote in green, blue, and pink text on a gray background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • "It Is Better To Be Hated For Who You Are Rather Than Loved For Who You're Not" quote | basis both | confidence high | evidence text content

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • category: myoldicons / music artists / van zant
  • alt: 1121943506_1228499399.gif
  • title: MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API

Metadata Only Entities

  • Van Zant
  • koolkidsr2kool
  • myoldicons
  • aim icons

Named Entities

  • "It Is Better To Be Hated For Who You Are Rather Than Loved For Who You're Not" quote

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • "it's better to be hated for who you are rather than loved for who you're not" quote
  • 8-bit pixel art text icon
  • gray background green blue pink text

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet 2x1 layout, sampledFrameCount=2, sourceFrameCount=2, reviewImagePixels=512x256, gray transparency background

Safety Notes

  • text contains inspirational quote without explicit content, nudity, or hate symbols

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • non-authoritative hints suggest music artist Van Zant connection and "myoldicons" category but no visual evidence supports this
  • hints mention "koolkidsr2kool" and "aim icons / character" which are not visually confirmed

Visible Text

  • IT'S BETTER TO
  • BE HATED FOR
  • WHO YOU ARE
  • RATHER THAN
  • LOVED FOR WHO
  • YOU'RE NOT

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • light green text
  • blue text
  • pink text
  • pixelated 8-bit font
  • uppercase letters
  • "IT'S BETTER TO" phrase
  • "BE HATED FOR" phrase
  • "WHO YOU ARE" phrase
  • "RATHER THAN" phrase
  • "LOVED FOR WHO" phrase
  • "YOU'RE NOT" phrase
  • two identical frames
  • text color variation
  • contact sheet layout
  • solid gray background
  • no characters or objects
  • retro digital art style
  • blocky text rendering
  • pixelated letterforms

Source & archive date

Added to archive
July 8, 2026

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival

Source title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / music artists / van zant
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:29 UTC

Wayback Buddy-Icons.info Remaining Category Portal Shard

Source title
Character icons for AIM, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo
Category
aim icons / character / page6 / character icons for aim msn myspace and yahoo
Era
Mid-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 22:33 UTC

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs

Source title
25655
Category
img / icon
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 21:54 UTC
Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
50×50 pixels
File size
556 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 8, 2026
Relative path
icons/53/538a873989a2ddcc537aa5fd825467ad20f92b0990d709ecc1e5f220d68c8316.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 10, 2026 at 04:12 UTC
Archive ID
538a873989a2ddcc
SHA-256
538a873989a2ddcc537aa5fd825467ad20f92b0990d709ecc1e5f220d68c8316
Content-safety assessments (2)
onnxOwenElliott/image-safety-classifier-sbroad
Assessed
July 22, 2026 at 13:28 UTC
Run
89
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.089899

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.912201onnx/unsafe0.089899onnx/nsfw0.055443onnx/nsfl0.034455
legacy-enrichmentqwen3-vl:30blegacy-import
Assessed
July 13, 2026 at 12:29 UTC
Run
30
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

A static contact sheet of two identical pixel art frames showing a quote in green, blue, and pink text on a gray background.

Reviewed
July 13, 2026 at 12:29 UTC
Run
30
Version
v3
Elapsed
15,437 ms
Tokens
prompt 3,140, response 1,162

Review tags

  • gray background (background, 0.95)
  • light green text (color, 0.95)
  • inspirational quote (content, 0.95)
  • pixelated text (subject, 0.95)
  • uppercase letters (text style, 0.95)
  • blue text variation (color, 0.90)
  • blocky font (style, 0.90)
  • retro digital art (style, 0.90)
  • pink text variation (color, 0.85)
  • two frame contact sheet (composition, 0.85)

Animation

  • no visible animation; two identical static frames with minor color variation in "HATED" and "LOVED" words between left/right frames

Animation Summary

  • Two identical static frames with minor color variations in specific words; no motion or character changes observed

Colors

  • gray
  • light green
  • blue
  • pink

Composition

  • two side-by-side frames
  • centered text layout
  • solid background

Dense Caption

The image displays a 512x256 pixel contact sheet with two side-by-side identical frames (sampledFrameIndices [0,1]) against a solid gray background. Each frame contains the phrase "IT'S BETTER TO BE HATED FOR WHO YOU ARE RATHER THAN LOVED FOR WHO YOU'RE NOT" rendered in blocky 8-bit style text. The text uses three colors: most letters are light green (e.g., "IT'S BETTER TO", "BE HATED FOR", "WHO YOU ARE", "RATHER THAN", "LOVED FOR WHO", "YOU'RE NOT"). In the right frame, the word "HATED" is blue instead of green. The left frame's "LOVED" is pink while the right frame uses light green for all text except "HATED". All letters are uppercase with a pixelated font style typical of early digital art or retro games. There are no visible characters, objects, or additional graphics beyond the colored text on gray background.

Description

  • A static contact sheet of two identical pixel art frames showing a quote in green, blue, and pink text on a gray background.

Identity Hypotheses

  • "It Is Better To Be Hated For Who You Are Rather Than Loved For Who You're Not" quote | basis both | confidence high | evidence text content

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • category: myoldicons / music artists / van zant
  • alt: 1121943506_1228499399.gif
  • title: MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API

Metadata Only Entities

  • Van Zant
  • koolkidsr2kool
  • myoldicons
  • aim icons

Mood

  • thoughtful
  • inspirational
  • minimalist

Named Entities

  • "It Is Better To Be Hated For Who You Are Rather Than Loved For Who You're Not" quote

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • "it's better to be hated for who you are rather than loved for who you're not" quote
  • 8-bit pixel art text icon
  • gray background green blue pink text

Preprocessing Notes

  • contact sheet 2x1 layout, sampledFrameCount=2, sourceFrameCount=2, reviewImagePixels=512x256, gray transparency background

Safety Notes

  • text contains inspirational quote without explicit content, nudity, or hate symbols

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • non-authoritative hints suggest music artist Van Zant connection and "myoldicons" category but no visual evidence supports this
  • hints mention "koolkidsr2kool" and "aim icons / character" which are not visually confirmed

Style

  • 8-bit pixel art
  • blocky text style
  • retro digital art

Visible Text

  • IT'S BETTER TO
  • BE HATED FOR
  • WHO YOU ARE
  • RATHER THAN
  • LOVED FOR WHO
  • YOU'RE NOT

Wordwall

  • gray background
  • light green text
  • blue text
  • pink text
  • pixelated 8-bit font
  • uppercase letters
  • "IT'S BETTER TO" phrase
  • "BE HATED FOR" phrase
  • "WHO YOU ARE" phrase
  • "RATHER THAN" phrase
  • "LOVED FOR WHO" phrase
  • "YOU'RE NOT" phrase
  • two identical frames
  • text color variation
  • contact sheet layout
  • solid gray background
  • no characters or objects
  • retro digital art style
  • blocky text rendering
  • pixelated letterforms
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Full source records (3)

MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons Revival (myoldicons-originalicons)

Kind
myoldicons-api
Era
Recovered 2000s Icon Portal
Type
current recovered OriginalIcons API
Category
myoldicons / music artists / van zant
Title
MyOldIcons / OriginalIcons API
Alt
1121943506_1228499399.gif | koolkidsr2kool Its better to be hated for who you are than for loved for who your not | animated | myoldicons id 176129
Observed
July 8, 2026 at 09:29 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 Buddy-Icons.info Remaining Category Portal Shard (wayback-buddy-icons-info-remaining-categories-portal)

Kind
static-gallery
Era
Mid-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Internet Archive preserved categorized AIM icon portal
Category
aim icons / character / page6 / character icons for aim msn myspace and yahoo
Title
Character icons for AIM, MSN, MySpace and Yahoo
Alt
It Is Better To Be Hated For Who You Are Rather
Observed
July 10, 2026 at 22:33 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
remaining AIM portal categories spanning identity, emotion, school, holidays, sports, symbols, and everyday culture

Wayback CDX Buddy-Icons.info Native AIM Icon GIFs (wayback-buddy-icons-info-img-icon-gifs)

Kind
wayback-cdx
Era
Mid-to-Late-2000s AIM Portal
Type
Wayback direct native asset enumeration
Category
img / icon
Alt
25655
Observed
July 11, 2026 at 21:54 UTC
Rights
mixed user-submitted and licensed imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
native Buddy-Icons.info AIM icon assets spanning user submissions, fandom, identity, relationships, school, sports, music, movies, and celebrity culture