Bloggers and meme-fanatics alike will admit that very few things can convey emotion like an animated GIF, and with almost 23 million GIFs posted to Tumblr everyday, it’s needless to say that the ...
Opinions on animated GIFs range from pure hatred to unabashed overuse. “Hide your eyes,” wrote one reporter on CNET. Meanwhile, Tumblr, which is the undisputed platform for animated GIF enthusiasts, ...
Out there on the lonely ocean of Internet ephemera, two unlikely castaways have at long last crossed paths: math and GIFs. Last month, some anonymous patron saint of high school math education created ...
People love GIFs. A lot. Really a lot. So much. They’ve been around since 1987, leaving plenty of time for a prolonged and heated pronunciation debate that wouldn’t stop until the creator of the .gif ...
When Jace Cooke and Alex Chung founded Giphy, they simply wanted a convenient platform for sharing and searching GIFs. But now, Giphy, which launched in Febrary, is reaching beyond its search engine ...
Brigitte Nerlich receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust and the ESRC. The use of “GIFs” has exploded in recent years. They are used for news, views and entertainment but are most commonly seen as ...
Learn how to record terminal sessions on Linux using Asciinema and convert them into clean animated GIFs for READMEs and ...
The Internet hasn’t really changed the form of the book that much, but the book review is another matter. Yes, you still sometimes hear pundits proclaiming that books need to get with the 21st-century ...
The period from 2006 to 2010 was marked by the rise of self-started social networks. Artists were sharing GIFs on Myspace before many migrated to their own collaboratively run blogs. These sites ...