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August 21, 2015 04:09 pm GMT

Giphy Cam adds just the right level of insanity to GIFs

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Say hello to the Giphy Cam app, incubator of all your worst (and best) GIF nightmares.

Whether you pronounce them “Jifs” of “Gifs” the animated “graphics interchange format” files are, nearly 30 years after they were first introduced, more popular than ever. They started their lives supporting our home-grown web pages with hidden spacer GIFs and tiny animations that everyone insisted they hated.

See also: The History of GIFs

Today, though, GIFs are the lingua franca of the web, especially in places like Tumblr, Twitter and every major media site you can think of (including this one).

Reheating my bagel #giphycam pic.twitter.com/vin27zg1Cl

— Lance Ulanoff (@LanceUlanoff) August 21, 2015 Read more...

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