Bloggers and meme-fanatics alike will admit that very few things can convey emotion like an animated GIF, and with almost 23 million GIFs posted to Tumblr everyday, it’s needless to say that ...

it will send it as a GIF. Back in the Albums screen, under the Media Types header, you’ll see Animated as one of the options. You can find all the Live Photos you’ve turned into GIFs there.

After the invention of the GIF file format in the late ‘80s, pixilated animated GIFs—those "under construction" signs and goofy flames—became a staple of the early Internet in the ‘90s.

A moving picture in GIF format, which comprises a series of frames. When displayed, they provide an animated sequence that cycles over and over without stopping. Although popular on the Web ...

Q: Animated GIFs once ruled the Internet, appearing on every teenager's Geocities homepage or MySpace profile. Now I can't seem to find any that I like. Can I make my own instead? A: Created way ...

A single gif file can feature multiple frames which are displayed in succession in order to create an animated clip, these can either be looped endlessly or just stop at the end of the sequence.

A designer for X (formerly Twitter) polled users about adding animated GIFs for profile pics. Twitter banned GIF profiles in 2013, but old ones were allowed to keep them — including me.

If I had to explain the Internet to an E.T., I’d call up a bunch of animated GIFs. They’re the purest distillation of the web, its unofficial universal language. If I had to explain the ...

Those short, animated loops that have captivated the Web for decades? They’re pronounced like a brand of peanut butter. Steve Wilhite created the Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, while ...

They dubbed it the GIF, pronounced with a soft-g, like Jif, the peanut butter. Since then, as the animated GIF has become a mainstay of Internet culture, GIF creators and watchers alike have ...