The opportunity to make the perfect pop culture reference and joke upon the situation via a gif, the small animated miracles of the internet. It was the perfect set up for a Family Guy reference! I found it but it was too big, I had to downsize it so it could fit onto Twitter, then it was too grainy, so I had to search again, even considering making the gif myself. All that work for such a small reference… but the amount of joy that that brought to my heart was immeasurable. See, you gotta understand there are two type of people in the world wide web. Those that google search a reaction gif they need and go with the first result and those that search through Tumblr, Pinterest, Imgur and page 34 of Google each in its own tab for that one gif they saw years ago that would be PERFECT for the current situation. Gifs are the perfect translators of emotion over the internet. They can explain in detail just how you feel at any current moment. For example, my father has been hitting me up to get my k in order. Each time he calls it feels like Mufasa coming back through the clouds to tell Simba to get his shit together.


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This article is from the archive of our partner. Takes deep breath. You may know what a gigantic pain in the ass it is to take a YouTube video and turn it into a passable GIF to share online. Just give yourself lots of time and lots of bandwidth. The user interface is straightforward. A big box asking for a URL.
Do you think all of this attention is worth it? Are GIFs a part of your world? If so, how big a part? Lucy Dikeou, a year-old senior at Stanford University, has long used English and the pictorial images known as emoji to text on her iPhone. A few months ago, she started messaging in a third language: GIFs. When Ms.