There are some striking similarities between the career of Robert Downey Jr. and the GIF. After the invention of the GIF file format in the late ‘80s, pixilated animated GIFs—those "under construction ...
The year 2012 was a momentous one for the animated GIF. The popularity of Dump.fm was just beginning to fade, but the platform, which facilitates real-time chat with images, had sparked GIF-making ...
Animated GIFs have become so huge. They're everywhere. But why? On the surface, they're pretty silly—a few frames of video, endlessly looping in time. There are GIFs of Star Trek's Picard facepalming, ...
From its humble beginnings on black and white computers to its now ubiquitous usage in memes and how Facebook is celebrating the GIF's birthday THE GIF turned 30 today, so, let’s wish the Graphical ...
You know how people sometimes say that jazz is the only truly American art form? Animated GIFs are like the jazz of the internet: they could only exist, and be created and appreciated, online. That ...