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I appreciate a gif when it's related to something we've talked about, but a random gif from pop culture seems kinda crass in professional conversation
But I'm with you — GIFs at work are for birthday greetings. Maybe.
Oh gosh please no. Gifs are fine on Reddit, but I personally don't think they should be used in professional communications. I don't find it humanizes companies so much as it makes it look like they're trying too hard to appear youthful. It's like a parent insisting on repeating an inside joke you had with your friends.
Can a company legally just send any old gif containing copyright material (like all these do?) I see so many companies doing it, even tweeting it.
Oh gosh please no. Gifs are fine on Reddit, but I personally don't think they should be used in professional communications. I don't find it humanizes companies so much as it makes it look like they're trying too hard to appear youthful. It's like a parent insisting on repeating an inside joke you had with your friends.
Can I just rant for 5 minutes about how the majority of the time when I pull up social media and open a trending topic or what have you, 90% of the posts are just people trying to come up with the perfect reaction gif and zinger. I often just close the page without ever knowing what happened, but just seeing the same five images trying to be forced into the same melodramatic reaction joke over and over. No I really d…
Youtube comments are the worst for written memes. The smaller or more niche the channel, the less it seems to occur. It's always a breath of fresh air to see informational/interesting comments on the smaller channels (and to have responsive Youtubers). I don't really use FB much so I don't know if it's equally as bad these days, in terms of memes as comments. Regarding the Show HN, personally I'd like such a repo for…
Can I just rant for 5 minutes about how the majority of the time when I pull up social media and open a trending topic or what have you, 90% of the posts are just people trying to come up with the perfect reaction gif and zinger. I often just close the page without ever knowing what happened, but just seeing the same five images trying to be forced into the same melodramatic reaction joke over and over. No I really d…
Youtube comments are the worst for written memes. The smaller or more niche the channel, the less it seems to occur. It's always a breath of fresh air to see informational/interesting comments on the smaller channels (and to have responsive Youtubers). I don't really use FB much so I don't know if it's equally as bad these days, in terms of memes as comments. Regarding the Show HN, personally I'd like such a repo for…
Look, the only reaction .gif I ever need is https://media.giphy.com/media/hvSsjR2F9IsybFwVjt/giphy.gif
I'm morbidly curious to know how many emails have actually signed up to be notified of a new gif. Seems like you can't throw a compressed jpeg without hitting a web page asking for an email address to "be notified" of the new thing high atop the whatever.
