Web Archive Search Animated GIFs on the Web - Giphy
About this Item
- Title
- Search Animated GIFs on the Web - Giphy
- Summary
- Giphy, founded by Alex Chung and Jace Cooke in February 2013, is an online database and search engine that allows users to search for and share animated GIF files. This site contains a large collection of reaction GIFS, animated GIF, typically of a body in motion that is used online as a response or reaction.
- Created / Published
- United States.
- Subject Headings
- - Social media. Semiotics
- - Memes
- - Search engines
- - Folklore and Mythology
- - Nonverbal communication
- Genre
- website
- Form
- electronic
- Repository
- Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 20540 USA
- Source Url
- http://giphy.com/
- Access Condition
- None
- Scopes
- - giphy.com (domain)
- - www.facebook.com/pages/thisisgiphy (domain)
- - twitter.com/giphy (domain)
- Online Format
- web page
- Additional Metadata Formats
- MODSXML Base Record
- MODSXML Supplemental Record
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Chicago citation style:
Search Animated GIFs on the Web - Giphy. United States, 2013. Web Archive. https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0010391/.
APA citation style:
(2013) Search Animated GIFs on the Web - Giphy. United States. [Web Archive] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0010391/.
MLA citation style:
Search Animated GIFs on the Web - Giphy. United States, 2013. Web Archive. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/lcwaN0010391/>.
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