Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M

Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by artificial on Friday May 15, 2020 @11:59AM (#23193693)

Hah, great anaology. Pretty crazy that 2chan/4chan popularized the reaction gif.

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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by matheusmoreira on Saturday May 16, 2020 @06:51AM (#23202361)

Chans have WebM support as well! Much better format in every way!

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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by zaroth on Saturday May 16, 2020 @09:47AM (#23203335)

The only thing more HN than debating the usage patterns of reaction gifs is to... veer further into discussing the file format used to share them. At least today it’s topical!

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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by anon73044 on Friday May 15, 2020 @03:45PM (#23196534)

and folders full of canned reaction images long before every board supported gifs....

and before that, plaintext emoticons... ಠ_ಠ

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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by smegger001 on Friday May 15, 2020 @05:37PM (#23197776)

if only more system would leave my plain text emotes alone an not try to convert it to a emoji

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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by artificial on Monday May 18, 2020 @11:39AM (#23223765)

desu desu desu desu desu

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