GIFs are designed to loop short clips–generally a couple seconds long–over and over until you close your browser window. But As Long As Possible is a different kind of GIF; one rendered on a geologic ...

Ade Olonoh, the founder of the anonymous Q&A site Formspring, is setting his sights on animated GIFs. Loop is an iOS app for sending text updates to all of your friends at once — à la Twitter — but ...

Popular dating site Tinder is now rolling out its Loops feature globally, allowing users worldwide to set profile GIFs rather than just photos. A picture may be worth a thousand words at times, but a ...

The Tinder profile pic tends to be where our cheesiest side comes out. There is, of course, a degree of fantasy to every profile pic, although some fantasies are more on the mark than others. And now, ...

The emergence of the animated GIF over the last few years has made short visual loops a regular part of our media diet, but the phenomenon is not an entirely new one. As Chris Baraniuk points out in ...

A service that creates an infinite loop GIF animation of 320 × 240 at 10 frames per second is "Face to gif"is. Normally you will need special software and some work to create GIF animation, but face ...

Struggling to bag yourself a perfect partner with Tinder? This new feature could leave you swimming in swipe-rights TINDER is hoping that GIFs will be the quick-fix solution to finding you a bed buddy ...

Animated GIFs have become so huge. They're everywhere. But why? On the surface, they're pretty silly—a few frames of video, endlessly looping in time. There are GIFs of Star Trek's Picard facepalming, ...

Tinder's latest addition is one cribbed from relationship-minded competitor Hinge. The dating app is testing out a feature called "Loops" in Canada and Sweden, which are essentially two-second ...

Though it’s almost 30 years old, the humble gif has had something of a resurgence of late, its simplicity slotting in perfectly as part of today’s fast, frivolous vernacular. The file format we’ve ...