A Cracked.com columnist by the name of Cody has started a humorous blog with the sole purpose of posting articles from Buzzfeed without GIFs.
For those unaware, Buzzfeed is a popular website that constantly uses the Graphic Interchange Format better known as GIFs in its articles. The result is an often-humorous piece with few words and many accompanying images. What the blog called ‘Buzzfeed Minus GIFs’ shows is that when you remove the images or GIFs, the article becomes nonsensical, but still hilarious nevertheless, just for a completely different reason.
In case your wondering why someone would dedicate themselves to such a worthy cause, I believe Cody says it best: “I love Buzzfeed’s writing, but couldn’t stand those pesky GIFs getting in the way.”
Key Themes Behind This Trend
- Gif-less Trend
- A trend can be expected where content creators would produce content without using GIFs.
- Minimalistic Trend
- Minimalistic articles could be the trend in response to the GIF-heavy articles that are common today.
- Humor-based Trend
- The trend could be to create more humorous content in written form by using irony and satirical writing styles.
Where This Applies
- Digital Media Industry
- The digital media industry could reap the rewards of the GIF-less trend when they create content without resorting to GIFs.
- Content Production Industry
- The content production industry could benefit in response to the minimalistic trend by adjusting their ways of content creation and making it minimalist in form but informative.
- Satirical Publication Industry
- The satirical publication industry could innovate in response to the humor-based trend by creating humorous content that is both light-hearted and informative.
