[quote=Lucian]
I don't quite understand the sentiment here. Gifs, in and of themselves, are not funny. They're just moving pictures. It's the content that should make them funny. Just seems an awful lot like saying "I used to find stand-up comedians funny, but not anymore." There's such a broad spectrum of things that saying something like that just comes off as vague and sort of pretentious.EDIT: That wasn't meant to be instigatory by the way, hope it didn't come of that way.
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It did come off that way, but don't worry I didn't take it personally. :)

And no, that comparison isn't apt. It's an aspect of internet subculture, it's not an entire genre of comedy. It's not funny, it's lazy and hackneyed. And most of the gifs are pressing the same exaggerated expressions, there's nothing new being said.