“On my Block” stars Jason Genao and Brett Gray try to guess movie titles just by looking at gifs. Read more…More about Humor, Netflix, Gifs, Mashable Video, and Comedy
View More The cast of Netflix’s ‘On My Block’ play Gif PictionaryCategory: Gifs
How to make Mondays feel less draining
March Mindfulness is our new series that examines the explosive growth in mindfulness and meditation technology — culminating in Mashable’s groundbreaking competitive meditation bracket contest. Because March shouldn’t be all madness.
The Sunday Scaries suck, but Mondays often suck more. After a weekend of friends, family, and ideally, naps, you’re thrusted into deadlines, meetings, and spreadsheets. That’s one way to look at it, at least; another is to think of Mondays as a day to start fresh.
The DeStress Monday initiative uses that mentality to encourage users to press the refresh button with simple tools that will help them unwind every week. In doing so, they hope to help people start their Mondays in a positive way and then reduce stress throughout the rest of the week. Read more…
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Morphin instantly Deepfakes your face into GIFs
Want to star in your favorite memes and movie scenes? Upload a selfie to Morphin, choose your favorite GIF, and your face is grafted in to create a personalized copy you can share anywhere. Become Tony Stark as he suits up like Iron Man. Drop the mic like Obama, dance like Drake, or slap your […]
View More Morphin instantly Deepfakes your face into GIFsChill out with these 10 mesmerizing breathing exercise GIFs
March Mindfulness is our new series that examines the explosive growth in mindfulness and meditation technology — culminating in Mashable’s groundbreaking competitive meditation bracket contest. Because March shouldn’t be all madness.
When you’re stressed — consumed by thoughts about your next career move, that embarrassing thing you said a few weeks ago, or anything else that makes your chest tight — it’s helpful to bring yourself back into the present by taking a few deep, steady breaths.
Obviously, that’s not always easy, but there are plenty of captivating GIFs that can help you visualize your way to mindfulness. These 10 will shift your focus away from your thoughts and toward your breathing. Take a look, breathe in, breath out, and wind down. Read more…
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View More Chill out with these 10 mesmerizing breathing exercise GIFsJibJab, one of the first silly selfie video makers, acquired by private equity firm Catapult Capital
JibJab, one of the first companies that let people insert selfies into videos, gifs, and e-cards, has been acquired by Catapult Capital. The Los Angeles-based private equity firm announced the deal today, but did not disclose financial terms. A portion of financing was provided by investment firm Cloud Capital. According to Catapult Capital’s site, it […]
View More JibJab, one of the first silly selfie video makers, acquired by private equity firm Catapult Capital‘The Simpsons’ featured a meme of Homer and it’s so wonderfully meta
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If you thought Inception was mind-blowing, just wait until you see a GIF of Homer Simpson using a GIF of himself.
That’s right folks, this is 2019, and things are about to get freaky.
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On Sunday night, The Simpsons official Twitter account tweeted a GIF from the latest episode.
Even Homer uses that GIF#TheSimpsons pic.twitter.com/Gw7V6mbxID
— The Simpsons (@TheSimpsons) January 14, 2019
That tweet has now been shared well over 5,000 times. Needless to say, it went down well.
First time I laughed hard at this show in years.
— Serious Guy (@jerjef) January 14, 2019 Read more…
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View More ‘The Simpsons’ featured a meme of Homer and it’s so wonderfully metaGfycat’s ‘GIFs’ can now keep the sound on
Gfycat, a home for GIF-making tools and an online community, is rolling out a new way to create GIFs — it will now let you keep the sound on. With “Gfycat Sound,” as the feature is called, GIF makers will have the option to retain the audio from the video file they’re using to create […]
View More Gfycat’s ‘GIFs’ can now keep the sound onHere are the 10 most used GIFs of 2018, according to Giphy
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In 2018, GIFs have never been more prescient.
Many people rely on GIFs to express a range of emotions daily — sometimes, hourly, if we’re being honest.
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Currently, there are about 7 billion GIFs and stickers being used by about 500 million people daily on the first and largest GIF search engine Giphy. Suffice it to say, people love GIFs.
And while new GIFs are constantly being created, shared, and reused, there are a select few that have risen above the many others as favorites this year.
Here are the 10 most used GIFs of 2018, according to Giphy: Read more…
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View More Here are the 10 most used GIFs of 2018, according to GiphyHere’s the astonishingly simple hack to spice up your Instagram Stories
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Instagram Stories have become a dominant force in our visual-obsessed culture, and a little-known hack is about to make it a bit GIF-ier.
For this tutorial, a third-party keyboard is your secret weapon (Gboard, Bitmoji, and Giphy are all good options).
But before we get started, we should point out that Instagram’s partnership with Giphy has already made it easy to insert some GIFs into your stories — the problem is that the in-app database doesn’t include every GIF you could ever want.
But with this trick, noticed by Matt Navarra on Twitter, users can copy a GIF from, say Google Images, Tumblr, or GIF sites, paste it natively in an Instagram Story, and then arrange it however you want. The world of GIFs is your oyster. Read more…
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View More Here’s the astonishingly simple hack to spice up your Instagram StoriesWith its goofy video loops, YC backed Splish wants to be the ‘anti-Instagram’
Is there any space on kids’ homescreens for another social sharing app to poke in? Y Combinator backed Splish wants to have a splash at it (😊) — with a super-short-form video and photo sharing app aimed at the under-25s. The SF-based startup began bootstrapping out of their college dorm rooms last July, playing around with […]
View More With its goofy video loops, YC backed Splish wants to be the ‘anti-Instagram’Twitch streamers can now let viewers react with GIFs
Giphy is coming to Twitch . For the first time, Giphy is bringing its library of animated GIFs to the Amazon-owned game streaming service. The company today is launching a Giphy extension for Twitch streamers that will allow viewers to react in real-time using GIFs during a broadcast. The idea is that GIFs could make […]
View More Twitch streamers can now let viewers react with GIFsEurope considers internet copyright law that would kill your favorite gifs and memes
Say goodbye to Doge and Grumpy Cat.
The European Parliament legal branch voted to pass a new copyright laws today that could possibly kill internet culture as we know it: no more memes and no more gifs.
The new set of laws dubbed the Copyright Direct…