But animated GIFs aren't dying. They're metastasizing: People festoon their Tumblrs with them, pass them around in email, and use them as Twitter avatars or signatures on discussion boards.

Add all sorts of animated elements to your own image. Or use Giphy’s pre-made GIFs in any category you want. Save, upload to Giphy, or share with your friends.

Because, for the same file size (limited to 3 MB on 4chan), you can have a higher-resolution, longer, higher-frame-rate video with more colors compared to an animated GIF, which is limited to 256 ...