Are GIFs a thing on Mastodon?

[_elena@mastodon.social]

@hpod16 awww that's amazing!

As for me, I used to make GIFs that promote representation. Explanation here: https://elenarossini.com/giphy/

Main channel with mostly IG stickers: https://giphy.com/elenarossini

My second channel promoting the visibility of women in film: https://giphy.com/thisiswhatafilmdirlookslike

I made so many GIFs of women directors and cinematographers (200+) that I created a gender gap in GIPHY search results!

What about yours?

[mook@possum.city]

@hpod16@eupolicy.social there are but mastodon by default converts them into mp4 which annoys me

[eetschrijver@mastodon.social]

@hpod16 Oh hi!

[wcbdata@vis.social]

@hpod16 This is how I post. Also, Tusky on Android lets me use the GIF feature on the keyboard.

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

@_elena @hpod16 I was mostly making gifs for many years. I took it really seriously for a long time. I was one of the first 20 "artists" added to Giphy's artist spotlight thing back before they were sold to Meta.. I was recently trying to get some of my old 3D film photography gifs back up at @gesticulation

[lazy@fedi.at]

@hpod16 Isn't GIF a totally dead format? GIF was a big thing back then. But now usually you'd have animated webp and modern video formats for animated stuff and of course jpeg, png and webp for static.

[negschaumburg1@hessen.social]

@hpod16 es fehlt einfach der GIF Button 😔

[scandigonian@pnw.zone]

@hpod16
(How many GIFs do I use in a week?) 🤔

[edporras@c.im]

@hpod16 @Gargron @Erased_Citizen wow, I also have a library and also search when I’m missing one but often use the giphy creator app myself because either the ones I find are not exactly what I want or I don’t find them at all

[soaproot@sfba.social]

@hpod16 We love them as long as they have alt text.

(Only half joking).