GIPHYAs a year's worth of news cycles, cultural phenomena, and creativity trundled through the internet in 2015, the GIF trundled with them. As the internet's visual language of choice (challenged only by the emoji), the GIF captured the most memorable human moments and emotions netizens and artists felt, from Star Wars hype to the cult of Donald Trump. Artists have been challenging the meaning of the word GIF through Instagram video and augmented reality books. Award-winning filmmakers have adopted them and John Travolta has been lost in them. And we saw the whole thing.
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Below, we've laid out the most memorable moments and loopy loops we found throughout 2015.
+George RedHawk proved you can be a captivating GIF artist and legally blind at the same time.+Cannes-winning director Ely Dagher made some award-worthy GIFs about The Self-Help Dance.+Okkult Motion Pictures made a series of GIFs that hide secret audio files.+We washed all that down with Kitchen Ghosts' infinite food porn, and then rung in the new year with 12 Days of GIFmas.
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+Some clever designers at Balight stuck GIFs onto bike wheels, and Germany-based artist Eran Amir made the first 360° cinemagraphs.+George RedHawk proved you can be a captivating GIF artist and legally blind at the same time.+Cannes-winning director Ely Dagher made some award-worthy GIFs about The Self-Help Dance.+Okkult Motion Pictures made a series of GIFs that hide secret audio files.+We washed all that down with Kitchen Ghosts' infinite food porn, and then rung in the new year with 12 Days of GIFmas.