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Interesting use of the gif there. I wonder if there will be a migration of these gifs from meme-based humor sites to more "legitimate" blogs and news sites. T
by pcrh 14y ago
Interesting use of the gif there. I wonder if there will be a migration of these gifs from meme-based humor sites to more "legitimate" blogs and news sites. They are, after all, the visual equivalent to using quotes by famous people.
- wmhartnett 14y agoNo one has ever accused me of being legitimate. There was an animated GIF on The New York Times homepage just the other day, though.
- alexismadrigal 14y agoSheeeit. We've had animated gifs on TheAtlantic.com HOMEPAGE since like 2011.
- pcrh 14y agoWell... ain't that a thing! But, seriously, someone is going to write a thesis on gifs one day. It is "literally" an innovation in communications. While we currently associate gifs with memes, etc, you can see quite a few very creative ones on ffffound.com, for example. And,as you say, TheAtlantic now uses them.
- wmhartnett 14y agoThen there is Hyperwocky, of course: http://partners.nytimes.com/library/cyber/hyperwocky/indexhyper.html http://partners.nytimes.com/library/cyber/hyperwocky/indexhy...