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May 20, 2016
Navneet Alang
Why Animal GIFs Make Us Feel Better
They're the only thing on the internet nobody fights about.
November 13, 2015
Elspeth Reeve
If you grew up playing racing games, there’s something soothingly familiar about staring into a horizon on an infinite road.
February 19, 2013
Chadwick Matlin
Inside the GIF-Industrial Complex
How the animated image file took over the Internet

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