Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M

Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by ehsankia on Friday May 15, 2020 @02:42PM (#23195744)

I'm fairly sure this is False. GBoard uses Tenor (the next largest Giphy competitor), which Google also happens to have bought 2 years ago (undisclosed amount of money). I also just tested Messages and can confirm that the results look like Tenor too.

For Discord, while they initially used Giphy and has a /giphy command, it now uses Tenor too in the GIF picker.

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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by judge2020 on Friday May 15, 2020 @10:25PM (#23199931)

The only difference with this acquisition and Discord is that Discord might now start proxying Giphy (they previously didn't to save bandwidth).

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Re:Facebook to Buy Giphy for $400M by ehsankia on Saturday May 16, 2020 @06:12AM (#23202165)

Again, Discord uses Tenor, not Giphy (unless you manually use /giphy instead of the GIF picker, which most people don't).

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