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Watch: The Movie GIFs That Keep On Giving

06 Apr 2020

Words by Leigh Singer

A man with long, wavy hair and a full beard wearing a brown leather jacket.
A man with long, wavy hair and a full beard wearing a brown leather jacket.
In a new video essay, Leigh Singer explores a curi­ous mod­ern phenomenon…

Movie reac­tion GIFs have become a sta­ple of online cul­ture: visu­al, ver­sa­tile and often viral. But what hap­pens when they take on a life beyond their orig­i­nal con­text – and does it real­ly matter?

In his lat­est video essay, Leigh Singer unpacks this curi­ous mod­ern phe­nom­e­non, not only show­ing how GIFs – that’s Graph­ics Inter­change For­mat – are cre­at­ed and dis­sem­i­nat­ed across social media but also reveal­ing the ori­gins of a few ubiq­ui­tous exam­ples of the form.

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