A picture may or not be worth a thousand words, but sometimes you need a series of moving pictures to represent just one word. Or at least that’s the case when a word has no direct translation in ...

Animation by Slate. Yawning cat via Giphy. Recently Adam Leibsohn, the COO of the GIF platform Giphy, made his case that GIFs are superior to words as a medium of communication. Could this possibly be ...

If you needed another clue that the Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, the short, looping digital animation file, has become totally ubiquitous, the Oxford Dictionary has selected the term as its ...