A hopelessly outdated image format that is nowadays mostly used for animated pictures.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.