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Pixelated text reads "Whatever floats your boat" in two mirrored lines above blue flame-like shapes on a light background.

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Pixelated text reads "Whatever floats your boat" in two mirrored lines above blue flame-like shapes on a light background.

Pixelated text reads "Whatever floats your boat" in two mirrored lines above blue flame-like shapes on a light background. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive…

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Mood

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Source terms

Animation

  • static image
  • no visible motion changes

Composition

  • text above flame shapes
  • symmetrical layout
  • horizontal lines of text

Dense Caption

The image displays pixelated black text reading "Whatever floats your boat" arranged in three horizontal lines: the first line is "Whatever Whatever", the second line is "floats yourfloats your", and the third line is "boat boat". Below the text, there are blue flame-like shapes with white highlights on a light background. The image has a retro digital aesthetic typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads "Whatever floats your boat" in two mirrored lines above blue flame-like shapes on a light background.

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2009042817103158301785

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • "Whatever floats your boat" pixel art
  • blue flame shapes text image
  • retro digital humor graphic
  • pixelated mirrored text flames

Visible Text

  • Whatever Whatever
  • floats yourfloats your
  • boat boat

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • "Whatever floats your boat"
  • two mirrored lines
  • blue flame shapes
  • light background

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
2009042817103158301785
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
522 bytes
Motion
Animated (2 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
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Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 UTC
Archive ID
92a5318fed57608f
SHA-256
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Content-safety assessments (2)
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Assessed
August 19, 2026 at 08:19 UTC
Run
1312
Input
image+text
Preprocessing
contact-sheet-4;static-256;animated-cell-256;gray192;nearest;png
Overall label
not-flagged
Overall score
0.000032

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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 19:10 UTC
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Pixelated text reads "Whatever floats your boat" in two mirrored lines above blue flame-like shapes on a light background.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 08:13 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
6,836 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,141, response 617

Review tags

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  • white (color, 0.80)
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  • white
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  • symmetrical layout
  • horizontal lines of text

Dense Caption

The image displays pixelated black text reading "Whatever floats your boat" arranged in three horizontal lines: the first line is "Whatever Whatever", the second line is "floats yourfloats your", and the third line is "boat boat". Below the text, there are blue flame-like shapes with white highlights on a light background. The image has a retro digital aesthetic typical of early internet graphics.

Description

  • Pixelated text reads "Whatever floats your boat" in two mirrored lines above blue flame-like shapes on a light background.

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 topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2009042817103158301785

Mood

  • playful
  • humorous

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • "Whatever floats your boat" pixel art
  • blue flame shapes text image
  • retro digital humor graphic
  • pixelated mirrored text flames

Style

  • pixelated
  • retro digital

Subjects

  • text
  • flame shapes

Visible Text

  • Whatever Whatever
  • floats yourfloats your
  • boat boat

Wordwall

  • pixelated text
  • "Whatever floats your boat"
  • two mirrored lines
  • blue flame shapes
  • light background
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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
2009042817103158301785
Archive entry
2009042817103158301785.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:57 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#2009042817103158301785.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#2009042817103158301785.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016