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.

Researchers at MIT are analyzing animated GIFs in an attempt to catalog what they believe to be a unique, Internet-based emotional vocabulary. An animated GIF—these days often presented in the form of ...

Last time we chatted with Romain Laurent, he was well into his ambitious project One Loop Portrait a Week. Armed with a camera and a sense of humor, Laurent made mesmerizing GIFs of friends. Two years ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not everyone can get out to San Diego, California for the city’s annual Comic-Con convention. OK, not everyone even wants to. But ...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If that's true, then how many words is a GIF worth? I'm not good at math, but it's probably a lot. When you're flirting online with the future love of ...

I absolutely love Instagram stories. When they first rolled them out, I'll admit, I was a little skeptical. But once I figured out how to use them, I was hooked. Over time, they've only gotten better.