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Hi everybody! I need to talk to you about something. It’s not bad, don’t worry. You aren’t in trouble, I’m not in trouble. We’re all doing great. But I’d like to talk a little bit about GIFs, and what better place than in our weekly GIFs post.
Now, it’s no secret that we love GIFs here at Videogum. They’re fun, they help us express our feelings, and then some more reasons. But, and I’m sure most of you are aware of this popping up a bunch in our performance review, they can sometimes alienate non-regular commenters, and some think that they too-often bog down the comments sections and discourage actual discussion. And we think that those are fair complaints. Again, not that we don’t love GIFs! Not that we don’t love you loving GIFs. But clearly it’s a whole THING. So.
That being said, we aren’t going to tell you what to do or police you on this subject. We’re all “adults” or we are all at least humans with free will who know how to use computers. But we’d like to suggest keeping the bulk of your GIFs to this post, the weekly GIF post. And have it be like a big weekly GIF party, where you can get out all the GIFs that you really need to get out because you’ve been holding the majority of them in all week. How does that sound? We think this would be a pretty good compromise and would help expand the community and discussion and etc., etc. So, what do you think? Please phrase your answers in the form of a GIF, just kidding.
Anyway, here are this week’s GIFs! And I do apologize for how long you’ve had to look at the baby one. My bad.
The Hangover Part II was released and Gabe hated it!
Children’s Hospital came back!
Franklin and Bash premiered?
People wore baby masks and it was a nightmare!
And we all learned something very powerful about ourselves!
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Great, I threw all my gifs in the garbage because i thought we were done with them.
I am laughing. So much laughing.
THAT DOES NOT NEED TO BE ON THE FRONT PAGE OF ANYTHING EVER.
Congratulations, for everyone who reads Videogum at work, you just created a hostile environment. I’ll be reporting you to HR.
Okay. I mean, there are a lot of things to understand (and not even try to understand) about the baby-people, but one thing I just can’t wrap my (normal, adult) head around is why the baby faces are WET and how they got to be that way!!!!
Water? Just spitballing here.
Oh hush. Do you think they have hoses hooked up or do they just walk around with one of those water bottles with a little fan on it that you buy at the souvenir stand in New France at Busch Gardens? RIDDLE ME THAT.
HOW’D IT GET WET?! HOW’D IT GET WET HOW’D IT GET WET HOW’D IT GET WET?!
They are wet from the tears of all of the souls they have eaten.
Also, congratulations to everyone at work! Pat yourselves on the back. Monsters be back patting.
Mailman, that comment makes me feel very excluded.
Report him to HR!
I’m not a big fan of these gifs*. Can we make Community a year round thing so I can smile at those gifs instead on Fridays? We have that power over NBC, right?
*Disclaimer- I don’t include the bike kid in this. I propose that someone post this gif every week or so year round so that morale and belief in ourselves never falters.
I must have missed the terrifying baby masks earlier this week. Congrats creepy baby mask, you have replaced this as my nightmare:
I swear I’m not trying to be snarky, but I want to say that I think it is legitimately HILARIOUS that animated gifs are a divisive issue in any context whatsoever. Like, how is that not one of the funniest things ever to everyone?
Because the internet is SERIOUS BUSINESS.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to make a video in which Sarah Palin tries to explain Paul Revere but every time she opens her mouth it sounds like an Iguana farting.
People have different issues, but they really make the pages load slowly on systems with limited resources. I rarely visit videogum on my iPad because the gifs overwhelm it.
#whitepeopleproblems
#iPadpeopleproblems
@thatone It def makes me laugh. Try reading some of the angrier comments in your best “serious voice”.
Serious question: how will we know how many gifs is too many gifs in a regular post? Are we saying that once there are one or two no más? Or are we saying none at all except here?
Baby Friday: since you dropped some Spanish in there, I needed to run your comment through Google translate, which for some reason had a hard time translating 50% of the English to English.
Serious question: how will we know How Many is too many gifs gifs in a regular post? Are We Saying That There Are eleven one or two only? Or are we Saying none at all except here?
We each get five a week for use outside of “This Wee in GIFS.” If your use of a gif gains over 50 upvotes, it does not count against your five.
What if instead of one post a week, we had one post a day as the place for .gifs? Too much? Just right? Too few?
My issue with a “place for gifs” is that a gifs’ place is in the context of communication that is happening already, so what are you supposed to do, place that gif in a gif only thread and describe its context? Place a footnote where you want to place a gif saying “please see gif posted in gif thread”?
Bah. Gifs aren’t worth fighting for or against.
I don’t think we should wee in GIFs.
Just sayin…
agreed
Seriously, and I understand and relate to some of the issues being brought up and all, so I don’t want to minimize anyone’s troubles, but if you can’t see the hilarity of this situation you may need a sense of humour check. I mean, they’re ANIMATED GIFS! And there’s a whole srs bsns debate going on over them! ANIMATED GIFS! Internet, thank you for being hilarious.
You know, I’m pretty sure someone said this about slavery once.
I like gif’s because sometimes I don’t have anything to say, but then I’m like BAM, this image can totally say something for me.
(it’s like anything, gif in moderation!)
Yeah, I agree. I’m not the biggest gifaholic. More like a social giffer (I can stop any time I want). But sometimes you really want that punch of movement that only a gif can gif you.
That gif evokes the trials of having a one night stand.
i sent it to my friend this afternoon after he asked me for a recommendation on a taco joint.
“go to rubens. the tacos are shaq. and chris dudley is the stand-in for your taste buds”
Why? WHY!? I am trying to slay the white dragon known as GIF addiction and we move forward with “This week in GIFs.” I feel like I’m adrift. I need a support system. I need… I need a gif to demonstrate how alone I feel.
Ahhhhhhhh! Goddamn! I missed the sweet, sweet release of an Animated gif.
Let’s make a cake for the weekend!
That’s Octomom’s fertility doc right?
Always Be Conceiving
Can it be a gluten free cake?!?!
(Today at work, it was the bosses birthday and a girl baked a cake and made it especially gluten free for me, I think because I am new and they are trying to include me, and it tasted horrible and now I am sure everyone hates me. Work sucks guys.)
that’s a horrible explanation of why it should be gluten free…
Did I hear my name? You guys talkin’ about me?
I’m glad I’m not the only one who ADORES Beetlejuice.
bad news…
try again next time.
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if this thread were just full of thoughtful, civil, deep conversation about modern culture, politics or world events and nobody posted any .gifs at all? That would be the opposite of its intention!
I don’t actually want to downvote you, but I want to yell boo!!! and throw a tomato. but as a joke.
I was going to write JUST KIDDING! and then post some goofy gif, but I actually have no idea where to find good gifs and I spent too much time looking for one, so I just gave up and let it be how it is, which is not funny at all and also kind of bitchy. Whoops!
Need gif advice, I can help. E-mail me: lloydwrong@gmail.com
That’s like telling you I’m looking into getting hooked on crack while I know you’re trying to quit and then coming to you and asking who the best crack dealer is. I will not be responsible for your relapse, Mr. Wrong.
Fine. I’ll get my kicks somewhere else.
Which one of you is looking for crack? Call me.
Sorry. I couldn’t resist.
No no, don’t even apologize. This is the best gif. I want to print it on heavy card stock and send it out as wedding invitations. I usually shy away from making any sort of contentious comment at all (or at least intentionally so, anyway, some people find everything contentious), but I made one kind of on accident and look at this brilliant piece of brilliance it brought me!
I knew you were joking, so clearly those who know you at all will also know. No worries.
That’s a problem for me, too! I tend to pass on making jokes in fear that my Internet delivery won’t subtlety and nuance my IRL delivery might have. Not that I claim to be all that subtle, but you get it.
Gay.
I thought I would combine both in one simple gif
Please tell me that is Stephen Hawking.
As a once upon a time regular I nowknow how there’s party feels. Inside jokes are gays getting married and gifs are death panels amiright? Boo change! Learn the ropes, immigrants.
Ok I don’t get the appeal. Lets all be friends and gang up on the next group of newbies.
How’d you get your name because I have no idea what you just said.
droid auto corrected Tea Party to “there’s party.”
You’re in ‘Mericagum now, speak inside jokes!
Droid autocorrected tea party to there’s party. Keeping up with political lingo is something droid doesnt.
problem solved. sneakily downloaded firefox in order to comment on videogum and use twitter without it freezing.
fuck the rules!
Question regarding gifs:
Why is it that a lot of gifs get slowed down on IE and work on FireFox, but some gifs are the same speed?
Yaaaay! I like this compromise. Too much of a good thing, you know? Let’s only GIF when it’s very appropriate. Restrained deployment leads to maximum impact, probably.
But gifs out of context, while funny, are maybe not as funny. Right? If you find the perfect gif as a response to a joke or something, wouldn’t that have maximum impact? Whereas here it would just be a series of random images. Probably amusing random images, but still.
Eh. I don’t know. “She doesn’t even go here!” etc.
Sorry, what I meant to say was YAY FRIDAY!!!!
Being a nerdly nerd, I have to say that I love gifs. First because they are hilarious, but second, because they are totally cool new mediums for expressing yourself! Basically you are saying “I am going to respond to this text discussion using something visual and it will speak for itself”. We are communicating in text AND visual languages!
*nerd*
Sir or Madame,
You are awesome. This is what my pro-gifness comes down to also. Taking them away is taking away part of the wonder and fun that the Internet brings to communication.
I’m not a big fan of lots of animated GIF postings, but I’ve got to admit, sometimes, a single GIF makes a thread. I’ll miss the GIFs that are clever, poignant and make me laugh, and I won’t miss the other ones at all. So, new rule, make me happy, always.
Also, that babymask GIF is less disturbing if you just imagine it’s Natalie Portman after V tells her he faked the prison thing.
P.S. Too late spoiler alert.
As long as Thursday Night TV open threads are still filled with adorable gifs from Concert Addict, I am cool with this!
I came across this a couple days ago and basically haven’t stopped swagging since.
I don’t want to ruin anyone’s good time, but honestly this new idea for a weekly feature doesn’t seem too appealing to me. If there are to be GIFs on this site (and by all means I think there should be, to some extent) I’d prefer them in context, following the articles they are relevant to, or else as a response to something in the comments. Maybe it speaks to the quality of ‘GIFs-for-comedy’ as a whole but this page just had a lot of things one after the other where responses were mainly “yup, that is a small clip of a thing that happened this week”.
agreed
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Yeah, I agree. That was an unrelated point alright.
Did you also see a whole lot of “chubby/fat girls” who were funnier and more likeable than you and did that make you uncomfortable?
@ Hugh Manatee
At first I was all like “Wow, what can I say to that?”.
And then I thought…
ha ha ha ha, Chris Brown fans like your blog
booooo
I live for comments like this.
So what you’re saying is the site needs more GIFs AND more belittling and heckling people for their weight? I have to say I’m SHOCKED that your very popular site does not have a devoted commenting community if that’s what you think constitutes a good blog.
*This comment took fewer than 30 minutes to come up with in my cubicle/dorm/parent’s house.
A real actual compromise about gifs would be if we decided to limit the file size in places other than posts like this/Thursday TV. That way we can use them when they make sense, but try to keep the files under 2MB or something so that people don’t have a hard time loading the page.
Obviously this is over a day after this post was made, so no one will ever see this, but still.
i see you eagle………..i see you
I am one of the non-regular commenters, as in, I just signed up to comment on this thread. I have silently read Videogum for years and love the community, so much so that it is giving me unexpected anxiety while writing my inaugural comment. I just wanted to say, please, please leave the GIFs in their original context. The first comment in the Design the Skyline post was a Jimmy Stewart GIF that made me laugh out loud, and some other examples. Anyway, that is all, back to my silent gummin’.