Alice McFlurry Oct 11, 2024
The inventor of the gif and its dumb pronunciation was probably named Geoff.
Show threadAlice McFlurry Oct 11, 2024

To cut off the reply guys before they can say "actually"

I know the inventor of the gif was named Stephen so don’t come barreling in here with your "facts" in an effort to ruin my very intentionally dumb joke.

Show threadAlice McFlurry 
Now that the inventor of the gif has died, can we ignore his whack pronunciation and all come together to agree that it should have been a hard G all along?
Oct 11, 2024 at 1:32pmWeb
Show threadMichael StancliftOct 11, 2024
@Alice choosy memes choose 
Show threadMicahOct 11, 2024

@Alice Wait... He died?

Am I a horrible person for feeling this happy about that?

Show threadPat MadiganOct 11, 2024
@m He's certainly jone to hell.
@Alice
Show threadNitin KhannaOct 11, 2024
@Alice I once had my very own brother refer to Imgur as “imager” because “that’s how the company says it’s pronounced”. I laughed, corrected him, then disowned him.
Show threadJason Parker (he/they)Oct 11, 2024
@nitinkhanna @Alice Bluesky is definitely pronounced like blue ski.
Show threadNitin KhannaOct 11, 2024
@north @Alice and not Brew ski??
Show threadMark WhybirdOct 14, 2024
@nitinkhanna @Alice Wait… how else do you pronounce Imgur? “Imm-gurr”??
Show threadNitin KhannaOct 14, 2024
@whybird yes. :D
it's literally in their name... "im" like "him", "gur" like "guru" :D
@Alice
Show threadMark WhybirdOct 14, 2024
@nitinkhanna @Alice Wild - it never even occurred to me that it *could* be said that way!
Show threadNitin KhannaOct 14, 2024
@whybird @Alice lol and I've never thought of imgur and gif in any other way. Found it strange to know there even was a controversy! :D
Show threadNazaniOct 11, 2024
@Alice Yep. G as in Graphic.
Show threadFiXatoOct 11, 2024
@Nazani @Alice Giraffic*
Show threadRowinSpeezOct 11, 2024
@Alice people who deny the soft G are the same people who try to claim there’s a correct way to hang toilet paper, genuinely
Show threadAlice McFlurry Oct 11, 2024
@RowinSpeez 😂 The toilet paper goes over unless you have a cat, in which case it goes under or under the sink entirely to keep it away from those pesky paws.
Show threadColes Street PotholeOct 11, 2024
@Alice @RowinSpeez Thank you for speaking this truth.
Show threadAunt EefOct 11, 2024
@RowinSpeez @Alice Let me just say that I'm old enough to remember when TP companies printed flowers on TP. And they were printed so that they were only right side up when the TP was hung over the top. Just saying.
Show threadRowinSpeezOct 11, 2024
@aunteef @Alice Coca Cola also used to put cocaine in pop, not everybody thought this was the correct way to do things
Show threadOttoKatzOct 11, 2024
@Alice nope!
I pronounce it Jif!
Show threadLocksmithOct 11, 2024
@Alice
"Actual--"
Damn.
Show threadFritz AdalisOct 11, 2024
@Alice @dnsprincess
Blocked and reported
Show threadMichael WymanOct 11, 2024
@Alice no no, it should be pronounced as a voiced velar fricative consonant, so more like an H as it sometimes is in Spanish.
Show threadTerryBOct 11, 2024
@Alice I thought it was a jift from Jod.
Show threadNickOct 11, 2024
@Alice Nope.
Show threadThe TurtleOct 11, 2024

@Alice just to piss people off I sometimes pronounce leading and internal Gs hard.

Those pesky germans from germany.

Show threadJake RodkinOct 11, 2024
@Alice drink a gin and tonic in honor of the gif
Show threadMr. CompletelyOct 11, 2024
@Alice on the contrary, we will redouble our efforts to annoy those of you who care about this issue
Show threadpaulOct 11, 2024

@Alice

Jodspeed, Stephen.

Show threadRobert LinkOct 11, 2024
@Alice Uh...don't hate me, but Imma a soft-g guy for graphics interchange format.
Show threadAlice McFlurry Oct 11, 2024
@phaedral It's okay. We all have our faults.
Show threadRobert LinkOct 11, 2024
@Alice I need a vault for my faults!!!
Show threadMark WhybirdOct 14, 2024
@Alice We can all at least agree the g is pronounced like the one in “garage”, right?
Show threadAlexa FontanillaOct 18, 2024
@Alice
#PostOfTheWeek (season 1):
Stephen E. Wilhite, the computer programmer best known for inventing the GIF, the looping animation format that became a universal language for conveying humor, sarcasm and angst on social media and in instant messages, died on March 14 in Cincinnati. He was 74.