The noble GIF animated image format is over 30 years old, and despite reports that the youth think they’ve outlived their coolness, they remain popular with a certain vintage of internet user (like ...

If you've ever taken a Live Photo on your iPhone, you've probably realized that it's a bit like recording a quick GIF with your camera. However, Live Photos are a bit different — they aren't meant to ...

Sometimes, the best response to a group chat or email is a strong GIF—a small animation that can express your feelings much better than you can type them. While you can find plenty of GIFs for every ...

The gif or graphics interchange format, which is ubiquitous in modern internet conversations, actually turned 30 this year. Arwa Haider tracks its meteoric rise. In an age of 24/7 information, where ...

Editor’s Note: This story originally published in March 2018. We’re republishing the piece following news that Stephen Wilhite, one of the lead creators of the GIF, died earlier this month after ...

I have been creating LINE stickers and character assets with ChatGPT, but behind the scenes, I have also been quietly ...

With that in mind, it seems almost impossible to endorse a twee, self-aware marketing gimmick seemingly designed to whip up debate on social media. Yet, here we are! Today, Giphy and the peanut butter ...

So you saw a fun GIF on X, formerly known as Twitter. That's cool, good for you, seems like fun. Now you want to save it for your own personal use. That's cool, too, but unfortunately a bit more ...

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 ...

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, ...

As of September 2026, note has a specification where uploaded images are converted to WebP. According to verification, header ...

Google is so famous for killing products that there’s a whole virtual graveyard you can explore. Google’s latest shutdown now has a headstone of its own. Effective today, Google has discontinued the ...