Buzzfeed has bestowed a new kind of GIF upon the Internet that they claim puts the site "at the very top of the GIF game." Is this new technology really an evolution? They call it the Rubbable GIF ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Last week, the family of the man who invented the GIF, Stephen Wilhite, announced that he had passed ...

We live in an age of great GIF ubiquity. The animated images, receptacles of small, silent feeling, news, or art, are everywhere and here to stay. GIFs are malleable yet sharable, concise yet ...

Facebook is betting on the potency of GIFs by acquiring Giphy, whose technology will be integrated into Instagram, which Facebook acquired in 2012. The price was reported by multiple media outlets to ...