Inspired by looping videos like GIFs and Vines that have kept millions of Web and mobile users entertained for countless hours, a startup called Coub is adding an extra layer of creativity to the mix.

Don’t worry, there are 2,498 more cat GIFs where these came from. (Photo: Giphy) It used to be that when you needed a GIF you were beholden to typical search engines, trying out different combinations ...

When is Natalie Portman's laughter not Natalie Portman's laughter? An Object Lesson. Aristotle called laughter an "ensouling mechanism," and the academic discipline of humor studies has built itself ...

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 ...

Okay, so technically they’re not GIFs, but “cinemagraphs,” short, seamlessly repeating videos. Either way, these incredible loops of dramatic waves from Ray Collins and Armand Dijcks are endlessly ...

Developed by Tiny Whale (the same studio behind Lean), Lively was one of the first utilities to enable exporting of Live Photos to GIF shortly after the iPhone 6s was released. Today, Tiny Whale has ...

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 ...

As far as entertainment value goes, architecture-related GIFs usually don’t have much on cat GIFs, fail GIFs, or GIFs of Oprah surrounded by swarms of bees. But these GIFs of procedurally-generated ...