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gifs are waning in popularity? Giphy serves up 10B gifs a day and Instagram now allows you to post a gif as a comment. Why do you say they're waning?
by xwowsersx 3y ago
gifs are waning in popularity? Giphy serves up 10B gifs a day and Instagram now allows you to post a gif as a comment. Why do you say they're waning?
- giobox 3y agoIf giphy was doing so amazing, how does that explain the enormous write down today? Sure you can argue Meta overpaid, and there are some bounds applied by the regulator on how they could sell it, but I don't think that accounts for the entire gap.
- stonogo 3y agoYou appear to have confused "popular" and "profitable"
- ec109685 3y agoApparently they are cringe: https://junkee.com/giphy-gen-z/341589 https://junkee.com/giphy-gen-z/341589 It also seems like most of the ones I see are screen caps of older tv shows.
- hackernewds 3y ago> “Marketplace commentary and user sentiment towards GIFs on social media shows that they have fallen out of fashion as a content form, with younger users in particular describing GIFs as ‘for boomers’ and ‘cringe’,” the company wrote in a submission to the CMA. actually reading the article in full, it's clear GIPHY and Meta are mentioning this with a BIASED motive to present their investment as non competitive.