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 ...

The gif or graphics interchange format, which is ubiquitous in modern internet conversations, actually turned 30 this year. Arwa Haider tracks its meteoric rise. The ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

Salty reaction GIFs have a special home on Twitter. Sometimes they just work better than anything you can write in 140 characters. Though a GIF of Giant Bomb's video producer and podcaster Drew ...