As a massive supporter of the Internet and the awesome things that come of it, I feel this needs to be addressed-and I want answers. When did the integrity of gifs start sliding so much? I started noticing these about a month ago on Facebook, and my first thought was "Why the hell is this a gif?" It would still be just as funny with the picture and the text. Why do we need something that looks like Michael Cera having a seizure or wrongly lip-syncing the bottom text that supposedly goes with the scene?

Here, I'm gonna scan my Facebook news feed really quick to see what I can find:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1vwu2ys3j1qhnavvo1_500.gif http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1vqj3qqpx1rsui0uo2_250.gif http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5vvhwM9ar1qec0d1o1_500.gif

That didn't take long. We've got decades of comic books that have done an excellent job of capturing a still emotion with accompanying text. Legendary gifs are weeping because of this. Gifs that didn't need text, only the wonder and amazement of simply being stared at, repeating their frames over and over again ad infinitum.

Where did these gifs come crawling up from? Why do we use them? Why in the fuck do they make the front page?

I leave you with a gif I thought was hilarious, and have cherished for ages:

http://i.imgur.com/SIKLr.gif