Please, no.
Show HN: StartupGIFs – A repo of GIFs for every situation
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#32The second a company sends me a gif email is the second I take my business elsewhere.
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#33Can 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…
Unfortunately it's not just social media. I've seen this creep into programming tutorial articles, including ones that are otherwise high-quality. Time to install a browser add-on to filter this noise out?
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#34"increase engagement up to 27%" What's the low end of that statistic? Is it negative?
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#35no
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#36Can 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.
You can do whatever the hell you want as long as you’re prepared to face consequences. In the case of sending gifs in an email, someone will first have to litigate you and then get to some kind of financial settlement/award. Then you gotta convince the other party to pay up / try and collect. The juice ain’t worth the squeeze. So yeah, you can.
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#37Pls no Kevin Spacey ;c
https://www.startupgifs.com/tags/your-contract-has-been-rene...
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#38FYI if your startup or company starts sending minion or any gifs to my inbox I'm done with your service and / or product.
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#39Waiting for their 2 billion dollar valuation.
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#40Oh 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.
Once people adapt to it, that conversion rate of 27% will dwindle, just like click-through rates on banner ads were great in the 90s. It only works while it's novel. Once everyone does it, it's no longer a differentiator.