TechCrunch

Gfycat’s ‘GIFs’ can now keep the sound on

Gfycat, a home for GIF-making tools and an online community, is rolling out a new way to create GIFs — it will now let you keep the sound on. With “Gfycat Sound,” as the feature is called, GIF makers ...
PC World

Gmail April Fools’ prank yanked after Minion mic drop GIFs wreak havoc on people’s lives

The only thing Google loves more than creating doodles on random anniversaries is April Fools’ Day. Google went too far with one Gmail prank during the 2016 online laugh-fest, however. Before you ...
New York Magazine

This Is the New All-time Worst Use of a Minions GIF

Take a trip backward in time with me to April Fools’ Day 2016, when Google decided to prank its users with a terrible new feature: an animated GIF featuring those yellow Tic Tacs we all know and ...
Inverse

GIPHY’s newest site “adds sound” to “GIFs” (it's video)

GIPHY has decided that the world needs a place to share GIFs with sound. If you think “GIFs with sound” makes it seem like the project is just re-inventing video: you’d be correct. In fact, the “GIFs” ...
Vox

Can a GIF Keyboard Like Riffsy Squeeze Money Out of Looping Minion Videos?

Only in Silicon Valley would there be a “GIF keyboard of choice,” but that appears to be the case with two-year-old startup Riffsy, a business that may, one day, find a way to squeeze some money out ...
Time

Gmail’s ‘Mic Drop’ April Fools’ Prank Goes Terribly Wrong

Gmail’s April Fools’ prank this year enabled users to send Minion GIFs to their email chains with the click of a button. Sounds cute, right? But it went terribly wrong. The new feature Gmail installed ...