Ah, the GIF. If you love the Internet, you can’t help but love that wonderfully animated, comically compressed image file format. Officially called Graphics Interchange Format, the GIF turns 25 today ...

People have been talking about the internet crashing for as long as there has been an internet. The use of the 1980s graphic format "GIF" for the common phrase used to describe "Death of the internet: ...

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"The reason everyone thought MySpace was going to die was because these (GIFs) are really ugly," says meme-master general Kenyatta Cheese, speaking at the Story Festival in London. Cheese helps to run ...

While today's internet culture thrives on the likes of dancing baby Yoda or even dancing baby Groot, the late 1990s to early 2000s cherished the oddity that was simply a gif of a dancing baby to Blue ...

Join our live video chat with the Giphy team on March 22 at 9 a.m. PT/12 p.m. ET. Submit your questions on the event page or tweet them with #GiphyChat. Tyler Menzel watches television or movies or ...

Wilhite, who famously said the word is pronounced ‘jif’, died last week after developing complications relating to Covid-19. Social media sites are buzzing with GIFs and tributes to Stephen Wilhite, ...

If you've been on Twitter at all in the past year, you've definitely had the pleasure of being acquainted with an Erivo ...

The GIF is the best gift the internet has ever given us. This isn't up for debate. It's just a fact. Another fact: The sports world is responsible for some of the best GIFs the internet has to offer.

The gif’s inventor, Steve Wilhite, insists it is pronounced “jif,” like the peanut butter, but don’t you dare say it that way. The internet at large uses a hard g, like “gift.” Case closed. The barge, ...