"The emoticon was once our best method of conveying feelings in a digital space where facial expressions and inflection weren’t possible. Today, memes have made GIFs (or have GIFs made memes?) part of everyday communication, a much better way of expressing what was once digitally inexpressible. GIFs are a way of conveying discrete moments in time. In an essay for Motherboard, “The GIF that Keeps on GIFing,” Joshua Kopstein writres,"

The Golden Age of the Animated GIF - Technology - GOOD