{"id":11307,"date":"2023-08-24T10:37:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T08:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/24\/gifs-arent-cool-any-more-and-now-i-feel-very-very-old\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T10:37:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T08:37:17","slug":"gifs-arent-cool-any-more-and-now-i-feel-very-very-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/24\/gifs-arent-cool-any-more-and-now-i-feel-very-very-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Gifs aren\u2019t cool any more \u2013 and now I feel very, very old"},"content":{"rendered":"

I shrugged off my dodgy knee and the grey in my beard. But if my beloved animated graphics are no longer fashionable, does this make me obsolete too?<\/p>\n

At the risk of sounding like a show-off, I\u2019m really good at gifs. Not the pre-packaged kind: there\u2019s no man-blinking-in-polite-disbelief in my repertoire, no woman-in-a-turquoise-top-doing-a-spit-take<\/a>, and certainly no Ron Burgundy saying: \u201cThat escalated quickly.\u201d We\u2019re talking bespoke, artisanal gifs, hand-selected for each occasion. Sometimes, I even make my own, noting down a bon mot or a wry facial expression from a TV show and saving it for a special occasion. Super Hans from Peep Show saying: \u201cThe secret ingredient is crime\u201d? It\u2019s not a multipurpose gif, like Homer Simpson backing slowly into a hedge, but that only makes its rare deployment more effective.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s only one problem with this, and if you\u2019re gen Y or younger you\u2019re probably already doing a TikTok to explain it to me: gifs aren\u2019t cool any more. Middle-aged people use gifs now. Twitter and WhatsApp have gif search bars that help even the most technophobic users find a little girl having a sugar rush at a baseball game, or Steve Carell yelling: \u201cNo!\u201d They\u2019re universal, therefore lame. I don\u2019t make the rules, as Natasha Lyonne says in a gif <\/a>from a show I haven\u2019t seen. I wish I did.<\/p>\n

Joel Snape is a writer and fitness expert<\/p>\n

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\nI shrugged off my dodgy knee and the grey in my beard. But if my beloved animated graphics are no longer fashionable, does this make me obsolete too?
\nAt the risk of sounding like a show-off, I\u2019m really good at gifs. Not the pre-packaged kind: there\u2019s no man-blinking-in-polite-disbelief in my repertoire, no woman-in-a-turquoise-top-doing-a-spit-take, and certainly no Ron Burgundy saying: \u201cThat escalated quickly.\u201d We\u2019re talking bespoke, artisanal gifs, hand-selected for each occasion. Sometimes, I even make my own, noting down a bon mot or a wry facial expression from a TV show and saving it for a special occasion. Super Hans from Peep Show saying: \u201cThe secret ingredient is crime\u201d? It\u2019s not a multipurpose gif, like Homer Simpson backing slowly into a hedge, but that only makes its rare deployment more effective.
\nThere\u2019s only one problem with this, and if you\u2019re gen Y or younger you\u2019re probably already doing a TikTok to explain it to me: gifs aren\u2019t cool any more. Middle-aged people use gifs now. Twitter and WhatsApp have gif search bars that help even the most technophobic users find a little girl having a sugar rush at a baseball game, or Steve Carell yelling: \u201cNo!\u201d They\u2019re universal, therefore lame. I don\u2019t make the rules, as Natasha Lyonne says in a gif from a show I haven\u2019t seen. I wish I did.
\nJoel Snape is a writer and fitness expert Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I shrugged off my dodgy knee and the grey in my beard. But if my beloved animated graphics are no longer fashionable, does this make me obsolete too? At the risk of sounding like a show-off, I\u2019m really good at gifs. Not the pre-packaged kind: there\u2019s no man-blinking-in-polite-disbelief in my repertoire, no woman-in-a-turquoise-top-doing-a-spit-take, and certainly …<\/p>\n

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