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Cool Stuff Daily

Mon. 09/26 - GIFs Are Dead, Long Live the GIF

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Thanks to a court filing from the largest search engine of its kind, it’s official: GIFs are cringe. How did they fall so far? Plus, the Colorado River is drying up and part of the reason has to do with politicians ignoring the science one hundred years ago. Sponsors: American Musical Supply, Use code COOL at https://ter.li/AmericanMusicalSupply-COOL for $20 off your next purchase of over $100 I Am Bio, Subscribe at bio.org/podcast Links: ‘Gifs are cringe’: how Giphy’s multimillion-dollar business fell out of fashion (The Guardian) Fri. 10/29 - Disease and the Vampire Myth + Hallowmeme History (Cool Stuff Ride Home) How a 100-year-old miscalculation drained the Colorado River (Vox) Science Be Damned: How Ignoring Inconvenient Science Drained the Colorado River by Eric Kuhn and John Fleck  As Colorado River Dries, the U.S. Teeters on the Brink of Larger Water Crisis (ProPublica) How to Watch NASA’s DART Spacecraft Slam Into an Asteroid (NY Times) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:28.3

Music lines and stores subject to availability ends 14th of february it's monday september 26th 2022 i'm jackson bird today thanks to a court filing from the largest search engine of its kind

0:35.4

its official jiffs are cringe How did they fall so far?

0:41.2

Plus, the Colorado River is drying up, and part of the reason has to do with politicians

0:47.3

ignoring the science 100 years ago. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.

0:56.0

This morning I was responding to an email for the experimental theater company that I'm a part of.

1:02.4

Given that we are an experimental theater company, you can imagine email etiquette is a bit more

1:08.1

informal and creative. So when I wanted to express my hype in response to a

1:14.3

certain Halloween proposal, I went over to jiffy.com, typed in Halloween, and quickly located one of

1:20.8

my favorite trusty jiffs, the one of a news anchor dancing in a black Unitard with a pumpkin

1:26.2

mask on. I did a segment on the history of

1:28.9

that jiff a while back. I'll try to dig it up and put a link in the show notes. And once upon a time,

1:33.7

I would have pulled this jiff, and yes, I say jiff, not gif, sorry. But once upon a time,

1:39.8

I would have pulled this jiff from the hundreds of meticulously tagged and organized gifs that I kept on my

1:46.5

hard drive. But as jiffs at once became easier to search for online and less popular in their usage,

1:54.1

I stopped downloading and storing them and started just doing a quick search for what I wanted

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