So you're watching a fun video on YouTube. Neat, good for you. You've seen a moment you really like, and you want to convert that fun little moment from YouTube into a GIF. I get it, pal, GIFs can be ...

The GIF has had an impressively long run amidst the usual short-term churn of the tech industry. One of the earliest ways of displaying animations on the web—long before there was enough bandwidth to ...

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Every corner of the internet is packed with GIFs, whether that's an Instagram story, a comment on a Reddit post, a chat from your friend, or a promotional email from a shoe brand. And honestly, why ...

The ancient GIF format isn’t going away anytime soon. With the birth of social media and memes, the three-decade-old format for lightweight, looping, sound-free animation has found a new lease on life ...

GIFs have become one of the best ways to spread sports highlights or comedic moments on the internet. While they have been around for 20 years, they haven’t been a part of mainstream culture nearly as ...

I love animated GIFs. As far as I’m concerned, they’re the greatest gift God ever bestowed upon the Internet. While most Mac users probably think making them requires Photoshop and some superior ...

The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) has been around — and its pronunciation argued about — for decades, and given its prevalence on social media it's not likely to disappear anytime soon. Even inter ...

GIFs are a major form of communication online, used for reactions, punchlines to jokes, simple greetings, and just about anything else. If you've spent any time messing around with GIFs, you've ...

Online “visual” reactions have come a long way since the first sideways smiley-face emoticon appeared four decades ago. Animated GIFs — those files showing a few seconds of choppy motion, like the one ...

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Did you know you can create GIFs on an Android phone? You can turn your favorite shows and movies into moving reaction images or create some fun GIFs from videos of your friends, family, or pets! You ...