Hundreds of GIFs saved in your camera roll? You’re not alone. <\/p>
When communicating via devices, we often want to convey complex feelings in an instant, and we don\u2019t want to faff about with fiddly little keyboards. With their dynamic images and amusing straplines, animated GIFs<\/a> allow us to do just that \u2013 in a sense, we\u2019re using other people\u2019s reactions to represent our own<\/a>.<\/p>\n When a team of researchers at Yahoo! Labs analysed millions of Tumblr posts, they found that those with GIFs were the most engaging<\/a>, and interviews with the users showed that the immediacy of the GIFs, their story-telling capabilities and their utility for expressing emotions were three of the main factors behind their popularity.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n Asked by: Luc Meadows, via email<\/strong><\/p>\n To submit your questions email us at questions@sciencefocus.com (don\u2019t forget to include your name and location)<\/em><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n Hundreds of GIFs saved in your camera roll? You’re not alone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":28707,"template":"","categories":[30],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/06\/heres-why-you-love-gifs-so-much-according-to-science.jpg",1200,800,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/06\/heres-why-you-love-gifs-so-much-according-to-science-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/06\/heres-why-you-love-gifs-so-much-according-to-science-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/06\/heres-why-you-love-gifs-so-much-according-to-science-768x512.jpg",768,512,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/06\/heres-why-you-love-gifs-so-much-according-to-science-1024x683.jpg",800,534,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/06\/heres-why-you-love-gifs-so-much-according-to-science.jpg",1200,800,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2023\/06\/heres-why-you-love-gifs-so-much-according-to-science.jpg",1200,800,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Hundreds of GIFs saved in your camera roll? You're not alone.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/28706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcsciencefocus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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