Man, the last few months have been wack.

Reddit kills third party apps (and drives away moderators, making some subs ridiculously terrible permanently, eg. /r/IAMA, in case no one's up to speed on that drama), Imgur bans NSFW content and deletes everything not uploaded by registered users, Twitter just goes fucking crazy (although that can really be attributed to one idiot), RARBG dies, Google kills sells off their domains to SquareSpace, Gfycat is just getting rid of everything, Netflix kills password sharing and plays a major part in holding back negotiations with the WGA, Zaslav kills HBO Max and turns it into reality TV central, Red Hat pulls a Canonical, Mastodon is in a potentially precarious situation with Meta...

That's just off the top of my head. There's probably a bunch more I'm forgetting.

2023 is fucking wild. Might as well get ready for the next "We Didn't Start The Fire" cover. There'll probably be enough crazy tech/social media shit for every verse before the end of the year.

Guess the value of the company wasn't in the gifs.

Wow, sad to see this much history go. It's tough running an image hosting service.

oh god damnit Can we get an open source alternative to gfycat and tenor? We can build in some slash commands everywhere for it.

Tenor has become so inundated with shitty gifs ads for shitty TV shows that it's near unusable.

$prompt> boromir this is a gift

response> (some gen Y in a shitty netflix show laughing)

I guess all these free services had to implode one day, I just didn't think they'd all choose the same day...