What are GIFs?
Is it "guif" or "dif"?
The most used by Brazilians in 2018
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If there's one thing Brazilians like on the internet, it's the GIFs. These small animations, which in many cases describe well the user's emotion, whether on social networks or in exchanges of messages, made Brazilians' heads in already discontinued tools, such as MSN Messenger and the famous Orkut, one of the pioneers of social networks.

Nowadays, even after much reluctance from Mark Zuckerberg, GIFs are already part of the daily routine of the Facebook and Social media coordinator, in addition to having already invaded the WhatsApp, perhaps the greatest messenger on the planet.

In other social networks, such as Twitter, GIF has been a strong presence for years, always bringing a good pinch of good humor in the publications of users of the microblog network.

What are GIFs?

But where did the GIF come from? The idea was presented in 1987 by Steve Wilhite, through the company CompuServe, as a color alternative to the download areas, at the time always in black and white.

GIF supports up to 8 bits per pixel for each image in the animation and uses a compression technique called Lempel-Ziv-Welch, which ensures further reduction in file size without losing image quality.

Despite having been launched in 1987, it was not until 1995 that the browser Netscape Navigator, the most important at the time, implemented looping GIF playback within the program environment. From there, world domination began.

Is it "guif" or "dif"?

Perhaps the biggest dilemma for internet users, especially those who have a huge library of GIFs, is about the pronunciation of their name: it is “guif”, with the sound of G, or “dif”, with the sound of J in English. ?

Major international dictionaries and encyclopedias accept both forms, but the creators of GIF introduced the new file to the world with the sound of “dif”, making this perhaps the official pronunciation, but not the most popular.

Among programmers around the world, the preference is actually for the other option, the “guif”, as shown in an informal survey of the site Stack Overflow.

The most used by Brazilians in 2018

But enough talking, let's get to the point: the GIFs most used by Brazilians in 2018, according to information from the Google made available by the website Tenor.

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