Gchat convos about animated gifs from 2009

1/10/09: First mention of necessity of animated gifs to the revolution

Christopher: wasn’t she the one that said, “If there are no animated GIF’s in your revolution, I want no part of it”
me: hahaha

6/29/09: First time I saw an animated gif of myself

8/17/09: First expression of desire for immediate reaction gifs

Aminatou: can someone make a GIF of sal falling on the bed and send it to me?! Yes i’m catching up on mad men
me: i know, right? SO GOOD.

11/06/09: First declaration that the gif renaissance is upon us

me: i am planning on posting this soon http://www.nastyhobbit.org/forum/animated_gifs/banana-hat.gif
Aminatou: hahahahaha so good
me: let’s face it, we’re in the midde of a gif renaissance
Aminatou: this is very true. i wish the gifs as party pics would catch on http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd120/hipsterrunoff/photographs/07.gif Imagine seeing a 10 frame gif of a crowd dancing at a Girl Talk concert
me: my friend lindsay was all over this trend like 2 years ago. her myspace page was full of party gifs. i wonder if i could find them in the depths of the intertubes…
Aminatou: myspace. a trend i did not explore too hard thanks to bad african broadband internet
me: i did not explore it too hard thanks to being a luddite