Discussion

• @glenngabe Glenn Gabe on x

  I'm going to ping my kids about this (18 & 15). Younger users say they are “cringe” -> GIF, once called “the file format of the internet generation”, is declining in use as young users say GIFs are “cringe” & MP4 videos make the format outdated https://www.theatlantic.com/ ... ht…

• @alsolikelife Kevin B. Lee on x

  fascinating take on the conditions that are bringing down a fixture of internet language. (brought some fond flashbacks to 2015 when searching for the right chat reaction .gif was its own reward) https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...

• @paulbz Paul Murphy on x

  Well, it had a good run.. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...

• @russbengtson @russbengtson on x

  pry them from my cold, dead folders https://twitter.com/...

• @apollozac Zac Hall on x

  It's pronounced em-pe-five https://twitter.com/...

• @ianbetteridge Ian Betteridge on x

  See, I knew this would happen as soon as they decided it was pronounced jif not gif. https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...

• @kendallbaker Kendall Baker on x

  As long as newsletters exist and are thriving (it's not possible to embed videos in them), GIFs are gold https://twitter.com/...

• @cooksipgo Dave Cole on x

  An on-point GIF will always resonate. The death of the GIF has been greatly exaggerated. Signed, An elder millennial https://twitter.com/...

• @laurenshippen Lauren Shippen on x

  I don't feel strongly about gifs as reactions (tho I still use them even tho its “cringe") but I love that @kait_tiffany discusses that @tumblr is a unique gif ecosystem in this article + even that is under threat given the declining use of gifs. which to me, would be disastrous!…

• @mangmangmang @mangmangmang on x

  I'm glad to learn that gifs are dying, and I have serenely witnessed their rise and fall without ever learning how to use them https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...

• @mcmurrym Matt McMurry on x

  I'm sad as I read this. I'm no Gif expert in curation or creation, but ❤️ Gifs as a hobby. The tech can evolve beyond the old gif type, but the use of the content dwindling is a sad story. Gifs and emojis and emoticons share more than just text ever could. https://www.theatlantic…

• @david_o_bedlam David S on x

  From the perspective of cultural-linguistic history this is so, so interesting, a slang or idiolect upon which an entire industry was built, now collapsing from uncoolness in the same way that slang words and vocabularies fall out of fashion https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...

• @mattnavarra Matt Navarra on x

  Why the GIF is on Its Deathbed https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...

• @kait_tiffany Kaitlyn Tiffany on x

  i wrote a short one about the human urge to create perfect animated loops: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...

• @marinakoren Marina Koren on x

  I'm a sucker for reaction gifs but this is a fascinating @kait_tiffany story: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...

• @adriennelaf Adrienne LaFrance on x

  “What I would like to suggest is that the situation is even worse than it appears. Not only are reaction GIFs ‘cringe’ to some people, but the entire GIF medium is under serious existential threat.” @kait_tiffany's latest: https://www.theatlantic.com/ ...

• @dlberes Damon Beres on x

  Reaction gifs are over, “cringe,” whatever, yes, we get it. But the actual .GIF file format is also facing an existential threat thanks to the rise of better video compression and the .MP4. What will we gain? What will we lose? @kait_tiffany explores! https://www.theatlantic.com/…