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by pcrh 5098 days ago
Interesting use of the gif there. I wonder if there will be a migration of these gifs from meme-based humor sites to more "legitimate" blogs and news sites. They are, after all, the visual equivalent to using quotes by famous people.
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No one has ever accused me of being legitimate. There was an animated GIF on The New York Times homepage just the other day, though.
Sheeeit. We've had animated gifs on TheAtlantic.com HOMEPAGE since like 2011.
Well... ain't that a thing!

But, seriously, someone is going to write a thesis on gifs one day. It is "literally" an innovation in communications. While we currently associate gifs with memes, etc, you can see quite a few very creative ones on ffffound.com, for example. And,as you say, TheAtlantic now uses them.