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> Is there any economic utility in being able to quickly find a gif?

Giphy gets used all the time in my company's Slack channels..

It's a morale thing I think (at least a bit).. People enjoy putting a bit of fun into the work chat, in a way that's acceptable (in our office culture - don't want to speak for everyone) and low-effort..

If Giphy was suddenly 5-10$/month (like RightGif is for example), I think my company would gladly pay that to continue to let our employees use it during their work conversations.




Fair enough. In my company's experience giphy only attaches a relevant gif around 25% of the time, the rest of the time the gif is an odd non-sequitur. Relevant and amusing gifs are probably closer to 5-10%.

We used it a bunch when we first moved to slack, but now we probably use it less than once per day across the whole team. We'd turn it off without hesitation if we had to pay for it.


Yeah I guess it depends on your viewpoint. I definitely don't always get the most relevant GIF but that tends to add to the joke in most cases.. ;-)




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