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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by bombcar on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @09:44AM (#33247012)
This is all the EUs fault. They were warned multiple times that they need to get home grown GIF supplies, instead of importing all their GIFs from the US or Russia.

And now that the pipeline for dashcam videos is gone, what do they have? Nothing but a few PNGs that they sadly try to animate in a poor imitation of a GIF.

(sarcasm gif goes here)

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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by JKCalhoun on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:36AM (#33247859)
Excuse me, I feel compelled to point out that it's FIG in France.
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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by runlevel1 on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @12:02PM (#33249484)
Funny enough, in French its full name is "Le Graphics Interchange Format"[^1]

[1]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format

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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by saghm on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @12:37PM (#33250137)
Reminds me of UTC[1]. Maybe the compromise is to call it "IGF"?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time#Ety...

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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by filiphorvat on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @01:26PM (#33250920)
Theux UE teuc oueur FIGues!!!
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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by aliqot on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:04AM (#33247302)
> that they need to get home grown GIF supplies, instead of importing all their GIFs from the US

As an Amish idk how to feel about this.

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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by notadev on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:28AM (#33247726)
Did you mail this comment to HN for it to be posted?
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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by aliqot on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:38AM (#33247889)
I get that a lot. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33039793
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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by smegsicle on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @02:48PM (#33252077)
its like the english don't even want to understand
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Re:Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confi... by aliqot on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @04:06PM (#33253106)
> the english don't even want to understand

I've never found this to be the case, people are generally curious and courteous.

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