GIFs. As with most other things on the internet there are the good, the bad and the ugly. I really hate the goddamn things though when they pop up amidst text. Part of me is trying to read the text while another part is driven to distraction by these fucking endlessly looping images.
The back-flipping poodle is way cool, and can one really do that on a fire extinguisher? 
some are faked or done with video editing, surely. like the cow floating away
No. Like most of these it was an obvious fake. The back flipping poodle was pretty good though, and I liked the one of the horse standing by as a man being chased by a bullock went running past. Basically, anything with animals doing something amusing will grab my attention and make me happy.
I think they’re fucking fantastic when used appropriately in context.
Like if a female poster started a thread about how she’d slept with ten different guys over the weekend or something, and then someone came along and was all
That’d be funny to me.
Yes that would be funny to me as well.
This is Robert Redford in the movie Jeremiah Johnson. He made his way into the mountains, betting on forgetting all kinds of trouble and stuff. Then he killed a bear, and some indians, then he made friends with some indians and another mountain dude and he got a wife who was then killed and all kinds of shit went down. Great movie.
