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‘GIFs are cringe’: how Giphy’s multimillion-dollar business fell out of fashion

• j0hnyl 4y ago
  It's not that they are out of fashion, it's that giphy is not the only kid on the block as alluded to at the end of the article. Every mobile keyboard has a little gif button that summons gifs on demand.
  • ancientworldnow 4y ago
    No, they are considered cringe.
• syspec 4y ago
  surprised pikachu
• benbristow 4y ago
  TIL GIFs are out of fashion. smh.
  • wan_ala 4y ago
    Yeah i have never heard that before, there is no way that's true
    • TrueGeek 4y ago
      https://media4.giphy.com/media/V9gjxvLnSSdA4/giphy.gif?cid=5e214886als49w0iy0ei1dw7fdrz5ffaquoxvugdhjd3vswg&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g https://media4.giphy.com/media/V9gjxvLnSSdA4/giphy.gif?cid=5...
• Grimburger 4y ago
  > Technical changes compounded the problem. The same reasons why the gif died the first time round hadn’t gone away: the technology produces large files with poor image quality. tfw no webm? To me the most annoying thing about gif's is their short length on repeat. The jarring nature of a one second pixelated video repeated is simply not something I want on my screen, this is most pronounced on old.reddit.com where the text based comments vibe is interspersed with some shitty reaction image inlined from people posting through new.reddit.com, I don't believe you can turn it off either.