The emergence of the animated GIF over the last few years has made short visual loops a regular part of our media diet, but the phenomenon is not an entirely new one. As Chris Baraniuk points out ...

GIPHY, the GIF website, has a New York office with color, a coffee bar, arcade games, and a hanging garden. The office is fun, animated, and weird. The architect designed it with help from GIPHY ...

A printing process from the 1940s produces GIFs you can hold. Skip to ... weird, 20th-century ... tradable, malleable form that can display, in a loop, a series of images or a moving ...

So, right now, at the top of the charts, we find a selection of fine VMA GIFs to help you understand what happened last night, and so, so many boy band loops.

This video loop won’t actually teach you how to make monkey bread—for that, you’ll need to go to the food website 12 Tomatoes.

From there, GIFs from Loops can be shared within Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, and other texting and email clients. Gfycat’s database of moving images is a growing one.