We wanted to fix that.'įor now, the app offers no platform that allows users to create a profile and share GIFs within the app. You can even give meaningful life advice with a GIF.Īll of this is great, but until today, those GIFs were never of your life (unless you are actually Beyoncé, reading this right now … if so - OMG). 'Using GIFs to communicate is the best,' the company said in a blog post. The free app, Giphy Cam, allows iOS users to shoot short videos, add animations or backgrounds, then share the creation on social networks, email or text message. Giphy, a major search platform for gifs, released an app for DIY gifs, immediately unleashing the Internet with a flood of moving selfies with animated pizza crowns, partying cats and 'deal with it' sunglasses. The GIF-making process is so easy that even a total technological gallumph can manage it (hi).Now you, too, can join the ranks of time-honored GIFs, such as Homer Simpson hiding in a bush or Stephen Colbert eating popcorn. With the new app you can film short snippets of your squad, of yourself, of your dog, of someone else's dog, of your imaginary friend - and because there is no limit to your power now, you can animate those GIFs, add filters, and add backgrounds to ~jazz~ them up to your highly sophisticated GIFing standards. But rather than just let you pore through the best GIFs the internet offers, GIPHY is now giving you the power to be one of those GIF-making heroes yourself. You (hopefully) already know GIPHY as the GIF overlord of the internet, there for you in the times you need that one Liz Lemon 'WHERE'S MY MAC AND CHEESE?!?!' GIF most (aka, all the time). Now that I have your attention, let me tell you about this app I just spent half my workday (whoops) getting hypnotized by. Did 'The Boy Who Lived' ever send a GIF of himself getting his swag on with cartoon money raining down on him in a group text? THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. Gone are the days when you didn't believe in magic - now that you can turn yourself into a GIF, you can basically out-wizard Harry Potter himself. If you thought your selfie game was already on point, the things you can do with the GIPHY's new GIPHY CAM app are going to blow your past self out of the water.

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