No Filter: Jasmyn Lawson

Note to Self

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4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The woman behind some of your favorite gifs takes us to the future. See what being a woman on the web may look like.

We couldn’t close out No Filter, our series on women owning it online, without profiling Jasmyn Lawson, former culture editor at Giphy. That's the search engine that houses all those looped videos we use to express emotion - and ourselves - online. But when Jasmyn started working there, she couldn’t find many gifs that looked like her. "Just having Beyonce and Rihanna and Nicki Minaj is not enough to say you're representing black women." So she made her own.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Anouche Summerodi and last week we had a very special series called
0:06.0	No Filter.
0:07.0	We did it in collaboration with New York magazines The Cut.
0:11.1	Every day a conversation looking at how women of all different ages own it online.
0:19.5	And today a final conversation, one to help us think about the future.
0:25.0	And how we make sure that women, all kinds of women, are heard and visible on the internet.
0:34.3	And oddly, GIFs, GIFs, however you pronounce it, those little tiny looping videos are actually
0:42.9	the perfect way to explain what we mean by making all women visible.
0:50.9	Because if you are a GIF or GIF user, when you find the perfect one, it is so satisfying.
0:57.3	And it just may be because of the work of this woman.
1:01.5	My name is Jasmine Lawson.
1:03.6	I am 26 years old and I was previously the culture editor at GIFI and now I'm going to be doing
1:11.3	social media at Netflix.
1:13.4	I just love to be kind to the few people who are listening who are like what the heck is GIFI,
1:18.4	what's a GIF.
1:19.4	So GIFI is the world's largest search engine for GIFs.
1:23.5	So a GIF is just an animated image that loops over and over normally between two and six
1:29.1	seconds.
1:30.1	And you can make a GIF out of almost anything, but most GIFs come from pop culture.
1:34.5	And now there's almost a GIF of everything that you can think of from Cardi B to Beyonce,
1:39.6	to Trump.
1:40.8	The world really moves in this way of short images.
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