My friend and podcasting partner Michael Branson Smith (MBS) proclaimed before a recent recording that “GIFs are dead.” This coming from one of the foremost artists in the field. I was not only taken aback, but deeply hurt. Some of my very best blog posts are simple GIFs from the heady days of ds106, are they now just meaningless artifacts forever looping in a vacuum during this post-GIF era? I don’t want to believe that GIFs are dead, so to counter MBS’s irresponsible claim I’m back to making GIFs. I’ll die for GIFs!
Gifs are not dead. Make a gif to celebrate how not dead gifs are. Share it with the Rev, and with MBS as well if you like. Make sure you share it with the DS106 community as well.
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dogtrax
@creating #tdc4918 #ds106 #DailyCreate
Don't believe the hype!
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dogtrax
@creating @jimgroom
#tdc4918 #ds106 #DailyCreate
I found some old GIF-themed comics that I had done years ago. Not sure they still make sense but I got a chuckle out of them.
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Sarah Honeychurch
@creating #tdc4918 #ds106 gifs are not dead, says Google AI, making reference to @jimgroom
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Sarah Honeychurch
@creating @jimgroom #tdc4918 #ds106 very not dead
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Paul Bond
@creating #tdc4918 #ds106 If GIFs are dead, then why do they dance?
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Alan is @cogdog
@creating #tdc4918 That's not dead. Nope, that either. That's moving! Not dead. Not dead. Not dead.
(remixed from a previous giphy)
https://giphy.com/gifs/QlgsL6UDIx7u1F9gvJ
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jimgroom
@creating #tdc4918 I found one that the "GIFs are Dead" author @mbs made as penance. He might be wrong, but damn he is good! #ds106
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