I Hate X Pics, Don't Send Me Any

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About

I Hate X Pics, Don't Send Me Any refers to a series of image macro memes based on an image of an angry red-faced emoji or smiley face captioned with requests not to send a certain kind of picture, usually nudes. Employing reverse psychology, the meme format is used to solicit and bait the very type of pictures it's protesting against.

Origin

The angry red-faced emoji the I Hate X Pics memes use is an edit of a stock image (seen below).^[1] The edited version is notably used as a cover for the mobile game titled Angry Emoji, released on May 19th, 2020.^[2]

On December 6th, 2022, Redditor SamueLJacksoff_ posted an image macro based on the emoji captioned "I hate boob pics, don't send me any" to the /r/shitposting^[3] subreddit. The post (shown below) received over 5,700 upvotes in two years.

Spread

The image achieved popularity on X / Twitter in the following years where it has been used by various meme accounts, sometimes as engagement bait and a hidden promotion for OnlyFans models who would reply to it with their pictures.

For example, on May 18th, 2023, the X^[4] account @EverythingOOC posted the image, with the post (shown below, left) gaining over 8,800 reposts and 133,000 likes in one year. On October 21st, X^[5] user @ShitpostGate posted the image, with the post (shown below, right) garnering over 23,000 reposts and 335,000 likes in nine months (shown below, right).

On December 13th, 2022, iFunny^[6] user uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh posted the earliest found edit that recaptioned the original meme, with the post (shown below, left) gaining over 140 smiles on the platform in roughly two years.

In 2023 and 2024, multiple versions of the meme were circulated on X^[7] and Reddit^[8] (example shown below, right).