Site: Gif Bin

by Matt on 13 April 2010

http://www.gifbin.com

Look out! It's moving! It should be still but it's doing something crazy.

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Pros

Poetry in motion

We bloody love animated gifs (or as they may even sometimes be called, motion gifs). They’re a piece of web heritage that still can’t be beaten for instant gratification.

Remarkably nothing else has come along that can give you a little animation in spaces where you are supposed to put a still image - allowing a bit of web subversion. The true genius though lies in the simple repeating nature: like an endlessly looping joke punchline.

Gif Bin is the equivalent of an episode of You’ve Been Framed: a whole load of animated gifs for your viewing pleasure. Sometimes the easy laughs really are the best. Or sometimes the jokes can be a bit more canny. Either way, you can kill hours on this site.

Cons

Motion sickness

It’s not exactly an amazing looking website and they’re not doing anything particularly original here. You can rate and comment on each gif but the colour choices and background texture means these parts don’t exactly pop out.

And they’re not really pushing the boundaries of what an animated gif can be. We want to see more things like the elaborate story of WW2 in gamer-speak (possibly the best animated gif ever).

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