Look. We do hard work here. Very hard work. The hours are long. The deadlines tight. And all of us buy cars that no sane person would touch so that you can be entertained. There walks among us, however, a true hero. A man who doesn’t know the word “quit” or, well, if he does know the word quit, he at least also knows how to use Photoshop like a real sonofagun. The man I speak of goes by the name Peter and he does most of the excellent social media stuff you’ve been enjoying.
The great thing about Pete is that he starts and finishes his shifts with a little banner or a GIF. The GIFs are excellent. Feast your eyes on these GIFs (pronounced with a hard-g, because we’re not animals). I’ve added the best to Giphy. So you can enjoy.
That’s what you need to understand if you want to understand the below:
If you were curious, Pete edited a video of the kid from “Half Baked” getting hit by a burger on loop for one minute straight!
Oh, here are some of his banners:
Just delightful
See, 99.99999999% of the reason why I really don’t want to go back into social media is having to compete with Pete. He’s too good at it. It’s scary, and I have decided to stay the hell away from doing that line of work ever again.
(Also, it’s a hellscape of opaque, ever-changing algorithms, terrible news about our terrible world regardless of how curated your feeds are, and the nonsensical whims of billionaire ghoul platform owners. Should we have used some of the felled wood from last month’s ice storm to make some guillotines? Probably. Wasted opportunity, that.)
Damn, Stef. Piquant rant, that. Deserves framing-and it’s a reminder we need an article from you.
JIF Goddamnit! Who are these insane people who say it like Gift, but without the T? Absolute weirdos you are!
Honestly, I prefer using the soft G (J) way because it just sounds right to my ear. The hard G way always sounds forced for some reason. However, oddly, Giphy with a soft G would also sound wrong to me. It makes no sense whatsoever, but that’s why I prefer saying it Jif.
I approve of this Half Baked message.
Pete isn’t the only thing out. Had skin pulled out of my mouth then put back in my mouth today, and it wasn’t a penis.
1) Pete is awesome
2) Gifs are, and have always been pronounced with a soft G and anyone who does otherwise sounds stupid.
I will fight you!
Oh yes, of course, because you say “graphic” like “jraphic”
You are obviously correct.
Dude who created the format says it is pronounced like the peanut butter. That’s good enough for me.
Yeah, cause I always go to code monkeys when I want help with word prononciation and how the english language works.
CodeMonkey like you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYodWEKCuGg
And Henry Ford was a rabid anti-Semite.
Creators aren’t always correct, especially about topics outside their specialty areas. (I doubt graphics guy was also a lexicographer.)
He was laughing while saying it. Ha! Ha! for 35 years.
Graphics Interchange Format, the real question, is the “I” in interchange silent?
So kif?
For the confused, Kraft peanut butter dominates the market here in Canada.
The dude who created the Likert scale (Rensis Likert) insists that his name is pronounced “lick-ert”, but try pronouncing it that way amongst your friends and co-workers and see how stupid you sound.
Hard-g GIF is the only correct pronunciation of that acronym.
Soft-g JIF is like pronouncing NASA as “NAYSAY”
sorry – forgot the reference for Likert: https://www.thesocialsciencesofa.com/2022/01/likert-scale-pronunciation/
WHERE’s the DAMN EDIT BUTTON?
But language is usage
Sorta like how nonplussed means both taken aback >and< completely un-phased (which is completely WTF to me)
Hard-g gifs are tasty, like a visual snack.
Soft-g Jifs are peanut butter, which is one of the meh-est of all nut butters. FIGHT ME, ALL OF AMERICA. YOU ALL KNOW NUTELLA EXISTS AND ACTUALLY TASTES NICE.
Almond butter, cashew butter… All much better than peanut butter. I only have it to fill my dog’s Kong to keep him distracted. But I’m still soft-G.
Nutella ist ausgezeichnet – es schmeckt nach mehr!
THAT’s the hill you wanna die on??
I tried dying on the “Miata isn’t actually always the answer” hill already and MY TAKES ARE ETERNAL. I CANNOT BE STOPPED.
Was once Nut Ella, now New Tella to protect the tree nuts.
I’ve had a shit day at work due to another (now fired) guy’s MASSIVE incompetence and potential on-the-clock drug use.
I needed to know that Pete is out there doing God’s work. You guys helped
https://tenor.com/view/wilson-dan-appreciate-about-you-letter-kenny-hick-gif-9506960
Also, really doubt this will work, but some HTML tags work. Let’s try it.
It should please you to know that Letterkenny references are also quite rife in the Slack!
https://giphy.com/gifs/cravecanada-letterkenny-season-9-7Vr4JQNv1BwigmOKVT
Well, to be fa-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-air…
That’s what we appreciates about ya.
I mean, there’s so much to say about that. I just don’t know where to start.
Well, https://giphy.com/gifs/cravetvcanada-cravetv-letterkenny-3o7btTrbvYPAINx2Rq
That fact is https://giphy.com/gifs/cravecanada-letterkenny-season-7-j3WMXwN1rAoW2rMmrd
It just kinda makes me feel like going https://giphy.com/gifs/cravetvcanada-cravetv-letterkenny-xUA7aNevTMySDSoZMI
I just… https://giphy.com/gifs/cravecanada-letterkenny-season-7-XZsiVSYgTf7iwvR2LQ
Know what I don’t like? Not putting these dadgum gifs in here as actual gifs. C’mon guys, https://giphy.com/gifs/cravecanada-letterkenny-season-7-d8QPbam0yloxId5U8G
Oh, is that what you appreciate about them?
You must work with one of them skids…
https://media.giphy.com/media/3ohzdMvc1w2VlFOpRC/giphy.gif
No for Petes Sake
No Pete and Repeat
And how about a Gif Petes out and a human cannonball?
I’m glad my Vinyl money is being put to good use. Haha. Seriously though this is why I love you goons. You guys work hard, and you play hard. I wish gifs worked but you guys can click if you want. Also it’ll probably help to explain the reference to DT.
https://offloadmedia.feverup.com/secretldn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/18173004/work-hard.gif
Hot stuff coming through!
EVERYBODY DANCE NOW!!