![]() Shortly after this, Twitter closed the loophole for using GIFs as an avatar. The article prompted this exchange between BuzzFeed’s CEO, Jonah Peretti, and Twitter’s CEO at the time, Dick Costolo: A June 2012 article on BuzzFeed explained in detail how to do it, step by step. Well, not officially, but there was a workaround: Basically, Twitter said animated GIFs weren’t allowed, but if you resized it to a certain ratio and tested it a bit, you could get it to work. BuzzFeed had only enabled animated GIFs to play on the site a few months prior, in April 2012.Īnd it was possible to upload an animated GIF as your Twitter avatar. Before Giphy, there also wasn’t an easy way to search for GIFs savvy people saved ones they found into a “reaction folder” to use at the right moment. GIFs were very cool, but still kind of a niche thing - there wasn’t an easy way to make your own without Photoshop, so most plebes couldn’t do it. ![]() Let me take you back to a simpler time: June 2012. There’s no “trick” to having a GIF avatar other than doing something that’s anathema to most teens: not changing your avatar for five years. Sadly, I always have to explain to the teens that they must give up on their dreams, that their best try is not good enough, that they cannot hope to make an impact on the world. ![]()
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