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These kinds of acquisitions intrigue me. what is valuation crieteria? from technical and innovation perspective, what part of it is worth millions?
Another commenter pointed out that Giphy is integrated into many products and buying Giphy is a way to get metrics about those products.
And the inexorable march towards tech companies owning everything continues. I wish anti-trust law wasn't such a joke across the globe.
In this case I'm not sure anti-trust would help? Giphy doesn't have a monopoly and the product is straightforward to replicate by doing the same thing they did - ie scraping and stealing content at scale.
This can fuel better ads. So consolidating this stuff further could have that effect.
To me it is so creepy how much of even our casual thoughts outside of facebook now are going into facebook servers. There's just no escaping these data addicts. That's the concern.
There is a considerable amount of porn on Giphy. I wonder if FB will ban porn on Giphy like how Verizon banned porn on Tumblr after that acquisition.
More censorship.
Then again, I am very curious if Facebook's content board will do something about wearing a bikini being a account closure level offense for sex workers/cam models and completely okay for celeb influencers.
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I've always thought part of the "charm" of Giphy in Slack is that does give you those somewhat silly or "not exactly what I was looking for but actually this is funnier" type of GIFs. The couple of times I have tried to use it to search for a very specific GIF (like searching for a specific clip from a movie) it hasn't really worked, but whenever I use it for more general stuff like "/giphy cardio sucks" or "/giphy h…
I'd just like this trend of sending reaction gifs to end. People keep posting them in Slack all the time, but I find it about as appropriate as that brief time when all my uni teachers decided that it's hip to include rage comic faces into every other slide of every presentation. , yes I know, I'm fun at parties…
I got tired of collapsing them
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Another commenter pointed out that Giphy is integrated into many products and buying Giphy is a way to get metrics about those products.
For $400m?