What makes this different from https://giphy.com/? They don't seem to be professional or consistent in anyway...
Show HN: StartupGIFs – A repo of GIFs for every situation
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Re: Show HN: StartupGIFs – A repo of GIFs for every situation
#22Can 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…
> No I really don't need to see the universe mind exploding guy in response to a story
Universe mind exploding guy haha...what you need to see is some Tim and Eric ;) https://youtu.be/FYJ1dbyDcrI
Re: Show HN: StartupGIFs – A repo of GIFs for every situation
#23Look, the only reaction .gif I ever need is https://media.giphy.com/media/hvSsjR2F9IsybFwVjt/giphy.gif
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#24Oh 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 increase engagement up to 27%.
Sigh. Just write yer email and gimme the info short and sharp. Don't bulk up my inbox with 99% image dross, it look amateurish and plain sad.
Re: Show HN: StartupGIFs – A repo of GIFs for every situation
#25Are all these licensed images?
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#26Look, the only reaction .gif I ever need is https://media.giphy.com/media/hvSsjR2F9IsybFwVjt/giphy.gif
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/RepentantSnivelingKillerwhale-size...
let the two of us bake roll-cakes, and be fast friends forever
https://media.giphy.com/media/L2ZPgw7kqJAYFRdzbm/giphy.gif
Re: Show HN: StartupGIFs – A repo of GIFs for every situation
#27Can 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.
Have also wondered about this. At this point it must be well understood/accepted that clips this small fall under "fair use" (or else there would have been a major legal sh*tstorm by now) but I would LOVE it if someone could chime in with specifics.
IANAL but basically, yeah this is probably mostly Fair Use.
You consider a few factors to determine if something is Fair Use, like what the work was originally, how much was copied, and what was done with it. For a GIF from a movie that gets put into an email/slack, you're looking at a tiny portion being used in a different format that isn't being sold directly but rather just part of emails.
If a copyright holder cared, they might be able to get an injunction stopping a company from using GIFs of their characters in promotional emails. They probably wouldn't get anything in terms of damages as what harm really occurred? It's not like I saw a gif and didn't need to see the whole movie. There might be statutory damages but those usually require bad faith which would be hard to argue.
StartupGIFs might be less fair use-y though. If they are selling access to the gifs or otherwise using it for marketing purposes, now there is money that can be directly tied to the use of GIF, which is a factor that is considered in Fair Use AND an argument to be used for damages.
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#28Man, I feel old.
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#29Be notified when new gifs are added 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.
At least they didn’t ask for a desktop notification!
Re: Show HN: StartupGIFs – A repo of GIFs for every situation
#30Can 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…
That's true if subreddits too. The smaller the niche, the more the contributors care it seems.
With regards to small youtubers, you can occasionally have an actually Q/A in comments.