gif

A hopelessly outdated image format that is nowadays mostly used for animated pictures. Has ridiculous limitations such as a maximum of 256 colors and inefficient compression but keeps being used because none of the superior alternative formats ever caught on. Also, nobody seems to be able to agree on the pronounciation, for some reason.

Person: Woah, nice GIF you got there. Sucks you can see so much banding from those pesky color limitations.
GIPHY: So, are you gonna use a GIF in your definition or not?
Person: Nah, wouldn't be caught dead using one of those things. It's not like GIPHY even really uses GIFs. They're all just looped MP4s.

by poudink December 17, 2020

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GIF or Graphics Interchange format are short videos without sound which are often used as "Memes" which are then posted on sites such as Reddit, 4Chan, Ifunny, 9Gag and other various Social media sites.
it is pronounced as GIF with a hard G because of the hard G in Graphics.

Person 1-"Mittens check this GIF out it's from the shitpost thread"
Mittens- "good meme"
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Person 1- "I just posted a GIF in #the_memes_are_dying go check it out"
Person 2- "stfu"

by FKDog January 16, 2018

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An animated picture or scene on a search engine/website. Gifs are used to express emotion or humor through live, looped movements from personal recording or TV shows. People may also pronounce it as "Jiff", but who the fuck is Jiff and why is he so popular around old people?

Person 1: "Bro, check out this Jiff."
Person 2: "No, dude, its Gif."
Person 1: "Okay whatever but its still funny right?"
Person 3: "Who is Jiff?"
Person(s) 1 & 2: "Shut up, Grandpa!"

by Dr.Generation December 26, 2023

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