Naming Conventions

We get a lot of questions about our URL generation conventions. As you may have noticed, Gfycats are named using the convention “AdjectiveAdjectiveAnimal.” This is a loooong-standing practice of ours, dating way back to when Gfycat was two guys working out of a garage on weekends. We decided to…

IFRAME Player for a better GIF experience

Alexa tells us our content is embedded in tens of thousands of sites. Frequently, an editor will create content on Gfycat, copy the IFRAME snippet, paste it into their site, et voila, lo and behold, a Gfycat in all its glory, with millions of colors and at…

Managing Your GIFs: Now Easier Than Ever!

We’ve unveiled a new feature! Our Library page now makes it easier to manage privacy settings, albums, and more for individual GIFs or your whole library.

The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show Is Very Confusing To Me, A Straight Woman

Victoria’s Secret is a strange and confusing brand. The people who buy their products are primarily women (and a handful of kinky men), and yet their fashion show seems to be targeted primarily at…

Gfycat GIFs in WordPress through the power of oEmbed

One of the top use-cases for why people love to create content on Gfycat is the ability to augment a story with an embedded GIF from Gfycat. With the amazing quality of Gfycat, the moment highlighted in the article really shines.

Halloween Creatures Ranked by Spookiness

Everyone knows that Halloween is the best holiday. Candy, costumes and camp — what’s not…

Gfycat is now HTTPS-only!

At Gfycat, the privacy and security of our users is a critical concern of ours. Early on, we enabled anonymous users to create content. Users who were looking to organize their content were given the option to create accounts and log in. They could then manage their GIFs, organize…

Humans Are Foolhardy

A Philosophical Treatise

“Sense entered into a short, violent skirmish with instinct and inclination, and was overwhelmed.”
 — JK Rowling

It’s Impossible to Think About Anything Other Than This Bat-Shit Election, But I’m Going to Try Anyway