James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. I’m going to cut the preamble here and get straight to the chase: what the hell is going ...

you are in GIF Hell. Want up-to-the-minute knowledge of which GIFs are trending on Twitter? Welcome to .GIF Hell, a site that aggregates and posts the quickie clips as they are retweeted.

and now a similar formula is being applied to the world of animated GIFs. .GIF Hell aggregates “trending” GIFs as they pop up and are retweeted by Twitter’s millions of users. The simplistic ...