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More Than a Meme: Artists See the GIF Format as a Beautiful Medium for Perpetual Art
There’s something about an elevator that touches on the very nature of the .GIF format. There’s a repetition to its design, a cyclical nature of destination and return, a permanent transience. It loops, constantly, permanently. What changes is the people who are there to inhabit it—or witness it. That’s why it makes sense that the…
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Meta Forced to Sell Giphy in UK Antitrust Case
Facebook’s parent company Meta acquired the gif-sharing company in 2020, amid probes by anti-competition regulators.
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Facebook Shovels Giphy Into Its Salivating Maw
It grows: Facebook has acquired the wildly popular gif-sharing service Giphy in a deal reportedly worth at least $US400 ($619) million, even as it stares down an increasingly hostile reception in official DC and antitrust probes by U.S. feds and the states.
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News Anchor Sues Facebook, Reddit After Her Photo Shows Up In Dating, Erectile Dysfunction Ads
A Philadelphia-area Fox 29 news anchor, Good Day Philadelphia co-host Karen Hepp, is suing Facebook, Reddit, and other platforms in a U.S. federal court after discovering that a photo of her taken in a convenience store was popping up in dating and erectile dysfunction ads, per the Verge.