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> On this basis, we consider that Facebook would also have an incentive to foreclose its rivals from access to GIPHY. That seems like a slightly more intellige
by ch4s3 4y ago
> On this basis, we consider that Facebook would also have an incentive to foreclose its rivals from access to GIPHY.
That seems like a slightly more intelligent wording of the same bad argument to me. There’s no real limit on the supply of gifs on the internet, and they aren’t really in particularly high demand. In fact they’re already falling out of fashion with younger users. You’ll be hard pressed to find many people under 25 using them at all.
- duckmysick 4y ago> You’ll be hard pressed to find many people under 25 using them at all. What do they use instead?
- ch4s3 4y agoFrom what I've seen, text. I've heard a lot of younger folks call gifs "cringe". It seems like a dead trend, even millennials I know have mostly stopped using them.
- duckmysick 4y agoIt seems like we've come full circle then. Maybe we can expect text emoticons (the ones with a hyphen for a nose) making a comeback soon.
- viridian 4y agoThey never went away, they just started being used ironically, but yeah, I do think we've already entered a post-ironic phase of text emotes :-)
- notahacker 4y agoThere's no real limit to the supply of gifs on the internet, and yet Meta spent $600m on a website hosting third party gifs that made almost zero revenue. I don't think they were going to get very far with arguments that nobody cares about gifs... One the other hand, the owner of Giphy absolutely does get to limit which websites get to continue displaying the gifs that several years' of their user-generated content backlinked to Giphy.com Not surprising that some bodies think the party making that decision shouldn't be Meta.
- ch4s3 4y ago> One the other hand, the owner of Giphy absolutely does get to limit which websites get to continue displaying the gifs that several years' of their user-generated content backlinked to Giphy.com I guess my question would be so what? You can cache them on your own system, if you wanted. However, I doubt historical shit posts and reaction gifs have any real value to anyone. Frankly it seems laughable that Facebook paid $660m for Gify in the first place.
- Apocryphon 4y ago> Frankly it seems laughable that Facebook paid $660m for Gify in the first place. It's another vector for collecting user analytics.
- ch4s3 4y agoI question the value there. Who cares that someone likes Seinfeld clips with George? Is that worth anything at all? You can get basically that data from Experian anyway without all of the hassle.
- Apocryphon 4y agoMaybe someone should have told Meta that when they bought Giphy!
- ch4s3 4y agoI’m pretty sure the general tone here at the time could be summarized as “what they fuck are they thinking.”
- viridian 4y agoCan confirm, reacting with gifs is 100% a boomer thing. And when I say boomer I mean anyone born before 1995.