GIFs are the lingua franca of the Internet, short bursts of video that quickly convey a thought, emotion, or point. They're frivolous and fun, not at all the type of thing people give much thought to.

is The Verge’s executive editor. He has covered tech, policy, and online creators for over a decade. Giphy is launching another GIF-creation tool today, and the big hook is that there’s nothing to ...

Iga Swiatek, Coco Gauff, Aryna Sabalenka, Victoria Azarenka and Elena Rybakina took a brief respite from their busy schedules in Dubai to play the 'What's in the Box' challenge. The organizers of the ...

WTF?! For those unaware, there exists a certain dislike among iMessage users on the iPhone (are you one of them?) who mock green chat bubbles in their message conversations received from friends or ...

The emergence of the animated GIF over the last few years has made short visual loops a regular part of our media diet, but the phenomenon is not an entirely new one. As Chris Baraniuk points out in ...

We live in an age of great GIF ubiquity. The animated images, receptacles of small, silent feeling, news, or art, are everywhere and here to stay. GIFs are malleable yet sharable, concise yet ...

GIFs have truly taken the virtual communication space by storm. IOS integrated them into its messaging, and Twitter, too, comes with its own set. And the very creative Twitterati has gone from using ...