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April 14, 2013 06:59 pm -07

Meet the Guy Making the Viral GIFs During MTV Movie Awards

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If you see a GIF go viral Sunday during the MTV Movie Awards chances are T. Kyle MacMahon will have assembled it. The popular GIF creator, who believes GIFs are the new emoticons of online conversation, will be the human machine behind the show's "Giffies."

The Giffies is MTV's new GIF-based "awards show" that will honor memorable moments from the MTV Movie Awards in real time. MacMahon will team up with comedians from VH1's Best Week Ever to quickly create GIFs for made-up categories (e.gSexiest Lip Licking).

We interviewed MacMahon, who this week also won Best GIF Maker at the Shorty Awards, to learn how he determines what makes a great GIFable moment, how he produces the GIFs and how he got his start turning split-second moments into viral artwork Read more...

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