Animated GIFs are hotter than ever, but legal precedent has not caught up with the popularity of the format. Before you start sharing GIFs in your own content, make sure you're in compliance with ...

Here at the Daily Dot, we swap GIF images with each other every morning. Now we’re looping you in. In the Morning GIF, we feature a popular—or just plain cool—GIF we found on Reddit, Canvas ...

Animated GIFs once ruled the Internet, appearing on every teenager's Geocities homepage or MySpace profile. Now I can't seem to find any that I like. Can I make my own instead?

More than two decades ago, in 1987, Compuserv developed the Graphics Interface Format, a file that allows users with incompatible PCs to exchange pictures. They dubbed it the GIF, pronounced with ...

If I had to explain the Internet to an E.T., I’d call up a bunch of animated GIFs. They’re the purest distillation of the web, its unofficial universal language.

Twitch's gaming streamers will now be able let their viewers pop animated GIFs into their live broadcasts, under a deal with Giphy. Terms of the pact are not being disclosed.

The GIF comes up as a link, not an image, which is a bummer because you have to click on it to get it to start playing, but hey — it’s a step in the right direction. ( Here’s at look at how ...