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> Also what's so special about Giphy? Seems it could be duplicated fairly easily by any serious competitor. Imgur already exists, and I believe (?) Giphy was c

> Also what's so special about Giphy? Seems it could be duplicated fairly easily by any serious competitor. Imgur already exists, and I believe (?) Giphy was created as an answer to it?

lopis 5y ago
Giphy started as the place to upload mp4 "gifs" to post on reddit. There was the giphy bot that would convert any .gif to a giphy. But naturally they had to pay the bills, so the grew.