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> Giphy has plenty of competition and gifs seem to he waining in popularity anyway.

Am I in a bubble? I post and receive like 20+ gifs per day with my IRL friends and family. The rate has shown no signs of declining.

[EDIT] And what's replacing them?

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You're not in a bubble, you're just old. The youths think gifs are corny and uncool.

What are they into, tiktoks/instagrams (I'm still annoyed that I can't know if an instagram link is going to be an image, or a video, these days—it's for photos, damnit!) with captions? That's just gifs with worse UI.

Stickers is the new thing now. The world outside of old people in America have moved their discourse to private chats such as WeChat and WhatsApp and Snapchat

Memes with JPEG artifacts.

Sending gifs from TV shows hasn't been popular since 2012 maybe. On Twitter it means you're attracting a horde of middle aged moms.

TIL that I, a member of the youth, am attracting middle aged moms.

In all seriousness, I completely disagree with your stance. My friends and I send gifs to each other almost daily.

how do you do, fellow kid? ;)

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