I'm old enough to have written a gif decoder and for my effort receiced a threatening mail from Unisys, demanding protection money USD 10000 up front, which absurdity - after consultation with my national patent office - I laughed off and ignored.
Back then I didn't imagine I would one day come to almost wish the Unishysters had in fact managed killing the damn format off for good.
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#42Can 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.
The answer is no, a company cannot legally just send any old gif containing copyright material. The only time it’s automatically legal is when the copyrights holder gives explicit license or permission. Under the Fair Use doctrine, it depends on what the source material is, how much of it is used, whether it damages the copyright holder’s ability to make money, whether the infringement is for commercial or non-profit purposes, etc..
A company is really unlikely to get sued for one or a few GIFs though, because there is an absolute deluge of minor copyright violations on the internet. If your entire business model depends completely on distributing minor copyright violations, you might be at risk for legal trouble...
Some companies do actively defend their copyrights and are actively suing over GIFs and YouTube clips. There are brands that you don’t see in most GIF collections. Many companies don’t bother, or don’t have the money to bother, or can’t stop the flood, or don’t want to piss off the public who thinks that anything they can find in digital form can be legally distributed on social media. For some companies, they might like it and view it as free advertising.
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#43Can 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…
You guys must be fun at parties. Emojis = hieroglyphs, gifs = animated hieroglyphs. A lot of meaning is embedded without using words.
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#44Great, now I can get the Medium Experience[1] in my inbox!
[1] The trend of having blog posts where there's a reaction gif after every other paragraph
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#45It seems insensitive to communicate an outage to a customer using an animated gif. If I’m paying for and/or depend on your service, i would like to know that you’re taking the issue seriously.
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#46Can 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…
It doesn't bother me as much on social media, as it does on tech articles where other developers are the primary target audience. When I'm at work, I really don't need to see a reaction GIF every 5 paragraphs. Not only does it add nothing to the article, it also makes me uncomfortable, as people might be passing by and see this on my screen. It makes me look unprofessional, and to be honest, it makes the author look unprofessional.
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#47Can 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…
You guys must be fun at parties. Emojis = hieroglyphs, gifs = animated hieroglyphs. A lot of meaning is embedded without using words.
Maybe I’m harsh, but I’d say a lot of the point is signaling that one is fashionable, in a sense. Meme styles and popularity changes so fast, it’s like a niche sport keeping up with it.
That is, it’s much less about concisely (or arguably lazily) communicating meaning and more about scoring internet points.
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#48Can 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…
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#49I think if a startup I was trying to do business with used any of these, I'd start to question how professional they are.. A few emoticons or emoji? Fine. Reaction gifs in business email? Ehhh, no thanks.
Sometimes I've yearned for a 'Serious' checkbox, similar to 'Dark mode'. Depending on mood and context, I'd love to turn off all the cuteness and baby talk I've encountered in error messages and mail responses. Do why really need a pastel rhino crying over a failed banking transaction?
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#50>Add GIFs to your emails to increase engagement rates
Adding a gif to an e-mail you sent me is a sure way to make me not respond.