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by JulianMorrison 1665 days ago
> Also what's so special about Giphy?

At a guess: a large existing library of GIFs.

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This might be the real motivation. Facebook(Meta) is data hungry and data driven company. It cares about existing data and the potential for getting more data. Known platform has a high chance to provide more data.