>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.
What's next ? Custom animated emoticons in your e-mails ?
Show HN: StartupGIFs – A repo of GIFs for every situation
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#52Can 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…
On ocasions it might be an ice breaker. I have started to use a few scenes from movies (not quite reaction gifs) as boundaries on some presentations to make the audience laugh (a bit of relief from very technical topics) and also add a clear boundary where I can ask them "did you all get that? let's move on to another topic then".
Re: Show HN: StartupGIFs – A repo of GIFs for every situation
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You're not harsh, you just read as the typical post on https://reddit.com/r/iamverysmart
Re: Show HN: StartupGIFs – A repo of GIFs for every situation
#54Can 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?
Could probably train a neural network to detect memes
Re: Show HN: StartupGIFs – A repo of GIFs for every situation
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
On ocasions it might be an ice breaker. I have started to use a few scenes from movies (not quite reaction gifs) as boundaries on some presentations to make the audience laugh (a bit of relief from very technical topics) and also add a clear boundary where I can ask them "did you all get that? let's move on to another topic then".
In a presentation, sure, you can catch the attention of the audience. But in online articles, I would refrain from using it.
Re: Show HN: StartupGIFs – A repo of GIFs for every situation
#56Can 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.
"The juice ain’t worth the squeeze", hadn't heard this expression before but I will definitely be adding it to my repertoire :)