"At the time, we defeated an enemy that wanted to take over the world," Segal says. "Not only Europe; they wanted to come get us. We feel as though we did a great thing." ...

That one, though, was still waiting for its GIF. So we made it: The extended deadline for Fast Company’s Brands That Matter Awards is this Friday, June 6, at 11:59 p.m. PT. Apply today.

We use the group messaging app Slack to communicate with each other, and one of the quirkiest things you can do in there is call for Slack to load a random moving image from GIF search engine GIPHY.

My hope is that we end up with a consensus of 30 to 50 gifs and their translations. Reddit did not disappoint, with dozens of great responses across a couple of threads .

In 2011, fans made hundreds of animated GIFs of the best, worst, silliest, and most amazing moments in the world of sports. Here are the 50 greatest animations we saw all year.