Don't worry — if you don't know what the word "GIF" means, now you can look it up in the Oxford American Dictionary, which just named the 25-year-old acronym, which stands for "graphic interchange ...

If you needed another clue that the Graphics Interchange Format, or GIF, the short, looping digital animation file, has become totally ubiquitous, the Oxford Dictionary has selected the term as its ...

Donald Trump is our brains on GIFs. Many people who are thoughtful and analytical have a hard time understanding the appeal of Trump's empty but crowd-roiling provocations. But think about the ...

Animation by Slate. Yawning cat via Giphy. Recently Adam Leibsohn, the COO of the GIF platform Giphy, made his case that GIFs are superior to words as a medium of communication. Could this possibly be ...

The Oxford English Dictionary has named GIF the American word of the year. Some people might see this as a reason to declare language dead and start communicating only in a mixture of grunts and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If the adage holds true that a picture's worth a thousand words, then the value of a GIF is boundless. GIF stands for Graphics ...

If you were to choose the word of the year, the year being 2012, what would you pick? Trust this will be a matter of much enjoyably conflict-filled discussion as we gear up for end of the year word ...