Don’t worry, there are 2,498 more cat GIFs where these came from. (Photo: Giphy) It used to be that when you needed a GIF you were beholden to typical search engines, trying out different combinations ...

There's nothing quite as momentarily incapacitating as a perfect loop GIF. No matter what is occupying your mind at the moment -- be it work, a first date, a bank robbery, whatever -- show someone a ...

Though it’s almost 30 years old, the humble gif has had something of a resurgence of late, its simplicity slotting in perfectly as part of today’s fast, frivolous vernacular. The file format we’ve ...

When is Natalie Portman's laughter not Natalie Portman's laughter? An Object Lesson. Aristotle called laughter an "ensouling mechanism," and the academic discipline of humor studies has built itself ...

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, ...

WhatsApp has expanded its media options by adding the ability to share short video clips as looping GIFs, allowing users to create custom GIFs from their stored videos. This feature, accessible on ...

Plenty of tech startups dream of building a new consumer brand that's used and recognized by hundreds of millions of people every day. Few of them get as close as Giphy, the four-year-old GIF search ...