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Its your prerogative of course but peppering your blog posts with stale meme gif after gif is an easy way to get me to not read your content. I don't understand this trend at all for talking about a professional concept. What you did this weekend, sure, but this?

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Know your audience, I guess. I enjoy gifs, and enjoy getting a sense of the author's personality when I read an article. I don't think I've ever bounced from an interesting article because of a handful of cheerful gifs, but hey, that's just me.

To each his/her own I say.

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