How I learned to stop worrying and love GIFs
GIFs, emoji, stickers… they’re taking over the internet. It took me a while to come to terms with the fact that it’s okay if we use fewer words, but now I’m a flag-flying enthusiast. When they first started to become a mainstream part of internet communication, I really didn’t like GIFs, emoji and stickers. They felt cheesy, they were childish memes and unnecessary images being inserted into news to ‘appeal to millennials,’ as if millennials can’t read words. People sent me animated stickers in IM conversations and I cringed – ‘just send me words, we’re not babies,’ I thought. And…
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