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I've always thought part of the "charm" of Giphy in Slack is that does give you those somewhat silly or "not exactly what I was looking for but actually this is
by txcwpalpha 6y ago
I've always thought part of the "charm" of Giphy in Slack is that does give you those somewhat silly or "not exactly what I was looking for but actually this is funnier" type of GIFs.
The couple of times I have tried to use it to search for a very specific GIF (like searching for a specific clip from a movie) it hasn't really worked, but whenever I use it for more general stuff like "/giphy cardio sucks" or "/giphy hooray" I get some pretty pleasing results.
- badwolf 6y agoThis is kind of the charm we like in our slack. We have preview turned off so you can't cycle through, you just get whichever one it picks. It can be amusing.
- yreg 6y agoI'd just like this trend of sending reaction gifs to end. <rant> People keep posting them in Slack all the time, but I find it about as appropriate as that brief time when all my uni teachers decided that it's hip to include rage comic faces into every other slide of every presentation. </rant>, yes I know, I'm fun at parties…
- anamexis 6y agoI don't mind the sentiment, but they're so visually distracting. /collapse is your friend here.
- ProAm 6y agoJust turn them off my default, its easier to uncollapse if you need to see something.
- redshirtrob 6y agoI hear ya. I had to disable animations on gifs and emojis. I keep Slack on a workspace in my peripheral vision. The animations trigger some reptilian fight or flight part of my brain that kills my focus. I got tired of collapsing them
- yreg 6y agoThank you, didn't know there's an option for that. I might give it a try.
- NoodleIncident 6y agoGoogle spreadsheets (and maybe docs) insist on smoothly animating a black dot in the bottom right back and forth. It's in the exact spot of my peripheral vision to make me react as if it's a bug, every single time
- vitaflo 6y agoHow do you do this?
- hoorayimhelping 6y agoSettings -> Accessibility.
- gsich 6y agoThe meme market agrees with you.
- cletus 6y agoOk, boomer. In all seriousness, I and a lot of colleagues use GIFs a lot at work. You can convey a lot of meaning/nuance with a single GIF I find. Honestly I never understand the need to use emojis. I just found that annoying but GIFs are incredibly succinct forms of communication. Or at least they can be.
- servercobra 6y agoI use emojis a lot in Slack and texting. They can remove some accidental ambiguity in your writing, by making your intent clear. For example, the tongue out emoji can work to make sure people know you're being sarcastic.
- kinleyd 6y agoI've come to appreciate emojis a lot for that reason. gifs, not so much - although the really good gifs go down well with me.
- bcrosby95 6y agoThey can also be ambiguous. Some people think "high five" emojis are actually "prayer hands". Which convey wildly different reactions to something. Told your friend your Dad was diagnosed with cancer? high five
- NoodleIncident 6y agoI don't think there's a high five emoji. When I search it, I only get the praying/folded hands, and it says that it's rarely interpreted as a high five. https://emojipedia.org/folded-hands/ https://emojipedia.org/folded-hands/
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- monkeywork 6y agothat's only ambiguous if you have no cultural understanding at all ...
- Freak_NL 6y agoI can't grok this trend at all. All these replies in the form of memes make me feel like I'm in the Darmok episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. I'm grateful communication on MatterMost at my company has not seen the need for reaction gifs emerge; the wildest thing we have is a custom emoji of a dancing banana.
- artificial 6y agoHah, great anaology. Pretty crazy that 2chan/4chan popularized the reaction gif.
- anon73044 6y agoand folders full of canned reaction images long before every board supported gifs.... and before that, plaintext emoticons... ಠ_ಠ
- smegger001 6y agoif only more system would leave my plain text emotes alone an not try to convert it to a emoji
- artificial 6y agodesu desu desu desu desu
- matheusmoreira 6y agoChans have WebM support as well! Much better format in every way!
- zaroth 6y agoThe only thing more HN than debating the usage patterns of reaction gifs is to... veer further into discussing the file format used to share them. At least today it’s topical!
- cheez 6y ago
- ProAm 6y agoI turn off all images and gifs in slack. Makes it much more usable.
- zachrose 6y agoHave you ever been in a mostly white office and noticed how many reaction GIFs are of black people? The term to Google here is “digital blackface”. If you bring this to more people’s attention my guess is that reaction GIFs will become less prevalent in your office.
- monkeywork 6y agoIt is amazing the lengths people will go to find something to complain about.
- busterarm 6y agoWe need a Godwin's law for things being described as "-ism".
- wkearney99 6y agoor anything -esque.
- Volt 6y agoLike… "other people using reaction GIFs".
- benignslime 6y agoI think that's just some form of confirmation bias you've formed, as I've never noticed that. I will say most of my offices have been multi-cultural, but even then, I've been on and led teams of white-only males that never succumbed to even posting these gifs. I guess guilting people into censoring their choices is a point of action, but I think the entire process should just be faded out. Slack admins don't need to allow these plugins. Theres nothing stopping people from literally going to giphy.com or whatever, but that's not why it's popular -- and it's definitely not why FB is shelling 400 million for it.
- zachrose 6y agoDigital blackface is not my idea, nor is it something I noticed. (I am white.) Someone else explained it to me. I was probably a bit skeptical that a funny GIF of Oprah could be linked to Jim Crow, but in the historical context of blackface there are some unavoidable similarities.
- benignslime 6y agothey ruin all flow of conversation and serve as distraction rather than substance. It's mindblowing to see some Discord and Slack channels just bombarded with fancy moving pictures. It's particularly worse when people won't use the "Thread" feature to contain reactions and sub-conversation to specific comments. It can result in lost information if people aren't careful, but it's almost always better than littering the feed with semi-relevant reaction gifs.
- dijit 6y agoI’m even “uncooler” than you. I wrote a bot that denigrates employees for using gifs in slack. And that persistent dancing parrot animated emoji. Luckily the bot ended up doing more valuable things too, but the original design of the bot was purely for abusing the colleagues on my team. And it had the intended effect, people still joke but slack is not pegging my CPU, rendering animated images anymore.
- joejerryronnie 6y agoThat would necessitate a separate bot which posts random gifs to your slack thread every hour on the hour ;-)
- seph-reed 6y agoHow to choose a reaction gif: 1. Type a couple words relevant to the topic or your feelings on the topic into a gif search engine. 2. Pick whichever gif suits the context best. 3. Watch as everyone thinks you're super clever. ------ I mean, I get it. Most people just want funny pictures, and I love sharing memes with friends. But something about reaction gifs just boils my blood. I'm very, very bothered by them. If someone posts a relevant comment, or video: great. If there's something really clever about the reaction gif: good job. But most of the time it's just kind of related, and not really a discussion at all. Or worst of all, a "wow" "lol" or "wtf" expressing funny face.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoUrgh I agree, I've seen people twice my age use them in presentations, it did not improve the presentation.
- mylons 6y agoIf you can’t fix it, feature it!
- harikb 6y agoMay be it is just me. The worry that typing /giphy without knowing whether I am doing the “I am feeling lucky” version or “let me choose” version and end up embarrassing myself has kept me away from..... well I guess embarrassing myself.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 6y agoThat's a huge part of it, and what makes a huge difference compared to discord where all you get is the gif. In slack, you see a random gif and the intended message, so a weird gif just adds fun. In discord you just get a gif, so the gif has to convey more, which is hard.
- rkuykendall-com 6y agoRunning `/giphy cardio sucks` on my work slack (thankfully just to Slackbot) yields a very NSFW result: https://giphy.com/gifs/old-school-bj-oldschool-111XK1CCmGNwI0 https://giphy.com/gifs/old-school-bj-oldschool-111XK1CCmGNwI... So... confirmed?
- taytus 6y agoNSFW depending on where you work at.
- EE84M3i 6y agoI would consider this "NSFW" but not "very NSFW"
- samkater 6y agoVery off topic, but scrolling through the link you posted was amusing, but one of giphy's entries was this: https://giphy.com/gifs/RwQYRsO7s9l6w https://giphy.com/gifs/RwQYRsO7s9l6w Which, I have to say, just made me feel a little sad and now I'm actually starting to consider how giphy's are made... David Finlayson is a world-class trombone player and to have his video reduced to those tags (and associated with that context) was startling. The original video is here, in case anyone is interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soDn2puEuL8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soDn2puEuL8 Did somebody edit the video to create that gif, or could that have been machine generated? Are human-made gifs actually a source for image tagging with context???
- bduerst 6y agoI honestly thought Giphy was vyying for an acquisition from Slack that never materialized.
- ascotan 6y agoThe charm of /giphy is that it returns seemingly random nonsensical results from whatever you type in.