-
Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!
The most misused GIF on the internet
- Thread starter SolVanderlyn
- Start date
- Status
SpaceShark
Member
Why?
Outside of the US, we have the ever watchful eye of Rupert Murdoch, we still have a Citizen Kane.
EDIT: It's funny, Hearst's life was actually more absurd than the film suggests.
teruterubozu
Member
Oh internets! So young, uncultured and dastardly!
That's how i see it too. Same with some other gifs where people make strange faces or emotions. People take them and post them how they think they fit. Do they always know the Movie they are from and the intention of the scene? Don't think so.
jim-jam bongs
Member
I don't think anyone is being chastised for misusing the gif, it's just misused more than any other that's all. This is the post-modern era, where appropriation is a legitimate basis for expression. I'm not sure why people are falling all over themselves to justify something which doesn't require justification.
Is your avatar depressing because he looks despondent and broken, or is it hopeful because he's just spotted the blue flower that will lead to his recovery?
I think context does matter.
TheRagnCajun
Member
I would argue that the context in which the original scene occurred is not relevant for the context in which the gif is used.
eot
Banned
Don't care about film. Might watch it someday but I'm not in a rush.
SpaceShark
Member
I think it's because the OP attempts to declare definitively that "this is what it means" when clearly that's not how everyone interprets it.
I, for one, always interpreted the image as "furious agreement", so it's interesting to see people get a negative connotation from it.
zorlaczerohero
Banned
This one.
It should only be used by men after producing a fart that lasts 14 seconds and changes pitch at least 3 times.
It should only be used by men after producing a fart that lasts 14 seconds and changes pitch at least 3 times.
jim-jam bongs
Member
Neither,
the blue flower is just evidence that Substance D is being made by New Path. His recovery will never happen, but at least he can give the authorities evidence that New Path have been making Substance D all along.
Context is important, but that goes both ways. When things are given alternate contexts, the juxtaposition of the new usage with the intended one becomes a reflection of the people or person creating that new context.
bengraven
Member
This one.
It should only be used by men after producing a fart that lasts 14 seconds and changes pitch at least 3 times.
It's actually a satisfied man who is going to be fucking miserable in about 30 minutes. WHY CAN'T WE USE THE GIF IN THE RIGHT CONTEXT?!
Sir Blaming
Member
to answer the question; I don't really know
Brawly Likes to Brawl
Member
That Harrison Ford one that got banned because it became the gif version of thread-whining.
zorlaczerohero
Banned
But now you are assuming context. A gif is a wonderful few seconds of motion, and should be taken as such. Where it comes from matters not at all. If the preceding and succeeding contexts were taken into account for every GIF, it would be a sad lonely life for the one or two gifs that made the grade.
HeisenbergLannister
Member
Dat awkward editing.
Bjoern the Smexy
Member
Thuogh regarding the topic:
GIFs are (most of the time) not about the context of the movie or whatever they're from.
It's about the content of the GIF and only the GIF itself.
Like that Lord of the Rings example up there, it's only about the sentence he says. What happens after that in the movie is irrelevant.
It's like you guys never used reaction GIFs before!
Fallout-NL
Member
Yup, that was exactly it.
User 100115
Banned
Ephemeris
Member
Thuogh regarding the topic:
GIFs are (most of the time) not about the context of the movie or whatever they're from.
It's about the content of the GIF and only the GIF itself.
Like that Lord of the Rings example up there, it's only about the sentence he says. What happens after that in the movie is irrelevant.
It's like you guys never used reaction GIFs before!
Prophet Steve
Member
Actually I think they did very recently, upped the gif size to 2 instead of 1 Mb.
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
I suppose it's ironic that many/most who use the clapping gif don't understand the original context.
On the other hand I don't think changing the context of a clip for comedic value automatically makes it a misuse.
On the other hand I don't think changing the context of a clip for comedic value automatically makes it a misuse.
Cillian Murphy taking off Pixeled Shades gif is one I don't understand at all....I know the scene from Batman Begins....he's getting fed up with Falcone trying to blackmail him for something he doesn't fully understand what hes getting into, so he takes off his glasses to put his mask on....but I don't get what the pixels shades and "Can't deal with this" means...
Huevos de Oro
Member
Yeah, that CK clapping scene seems to mean something else that's definitely not admiration. I haven't watched the movie, but I found this. Plot spoilers ahead, click at ye own risk.
Banderas one is not really misused, but overused and thoroughly annoying.
EDIT: Lol, Joker one is also amazing (the explanation).
Banderas one is not really misused, but overused and thoroughly annoying.
EDIT: Lol, Joker one is also amazing (the explanation).
It's a subversion of the "deal with it" meme, where pixel shades descend onto someone's face.
he's taking them off because he can't "deal with it"
The trick is to not overthink these memes. Most people only use them in the most base, referential way, as the Citizen Kane example shows.
way more
Member
to answer the question; I don't really know
Whats going on here?
This is the most misused gif ever.
Nothing happens after the Joker says that.
Wait...are we talking "misuse" in the context of "this is where this GIF is originally from"?
I don't think a GIF necessarily has to be used in the same way that it's being used in its source material. As long as it makes sense when it's being used, that should be fine. "And. Here. We. Go!", i.e. "I can tell that a shitstorm is about to erupt."
Don't worry, Gabe didn't really spoil Passion of the Christ. Jesus actually faked his death and stepped out of his tomb later in the end.
War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
It is kind of this, but he is applauding to make applause happen because he's invested so much in his wife, who was terrible. It's stubborn pride, I suppose.
Kuramu
Member
Quite the opposite IMO. The power of such a gif is that it lends it's original context to the current situation.
Well, usually the .gif are given new context, whatever the circumstances are. If the circumstance happens to give the .gif its original context, well, that's fine as well.
Just because a handful of people know or don't know the original context, does not make it misused. And if a lot o people use a gif with a guy clapping angrily to congratulate, then most people will think it is a guy congratulating someone, including myself.
Just because a handful of people know or don't know the original context, does not make it misused. And if a lot o people use a gif with a guy clapping angrily to congratulate, then most people will think it is a guy congratulating someone, including myself.
impetuous_silly
Member
Gifs cannot be misused because they're entirely dependant on the context of the conversation within which they've been used. The source of any gif is irrelevant to its meaning.
ChubbyHuggs
Member
NinjaBoiX
Member
I heard it was really boring and that I wasn't to "believe the hype".
they're making the right decision.
BananaSprinkles
Banned
fuck y'all
It's sad that a marionette can dance better than I can.
b&jy77VjiKn$#F
Member
It's not boring though.
War Peaceman
You're a big guy.
Completely disagree. I think it is absolutely enthralling and not from a 'I can't believe this is so old' point of view. But then again I love rise-and-fall stories.
Barbacoatl
Banned
The youngins these days are all about their webms and responsive designs.
- Status