Gfycat.com shuts down on September 1 and all Gifs will be taken down

Wow, the 'enshittification' of the internet is really taking off now. Sites are either already dodgy, or well on their way there!

I know this has been a bit of a slow burn for a while now, but it really feels like it's all coming to a head suddenly.

Oh sweet, it's dot.com 2.0. Grab your popcorn, it's time for the internet to implode... again! Never ever underestimate shareholders' willingness to self-destruct a product for short-term profit.

The Great Internet Recession™ has begun

It’s like the enshitification cycle somehow synced! https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

Had no idea this was even at risk of shutting down...

The times, they are a changin'...

I've watched the internet evolve since I first logged on to CompuServe in 1990. I don't think I have seen such a dramatic and fast change since the beginning of the WWW over crap like CompuServ.

Gfycat was the only good gif hoster. The rest, tenor, giphy, etc, are all corporate buzzfeed slop, that were primarily used by dimwits to decorate their shitty blog posts with (remember the various reddit admin feature announcements that had like 300 stupid gifs in them?)

So, twitter, Reddit, Imgur, and now Gfycat are all killing itself

Has the internet bubble finally popped?

Where are my data horders??

Kinda glad GIFs are dying.. they were beyond annoying specially in discussions. didn't help that reddit started incorporating them into the comment section.

Damn, and end of an era...

Quick question.... Discord uses an inbuilt gif thingy. Is that Gfycat or going to be impacted in some way?

This is insane. I wonder what other relatively large internet service will go down.

So what's the open-source alternative for gfycat? We got a trend started here let's keep it going!

What the hell is going on?

so do we also know why they're shutting down?

Goddammit. Could the internet not break all at once for 5 minutes please?

The death of the old internet continues..

anyone have an archive?

RIP Nippy Kind Langur

That's crazy. Things are moving fast these days. It seems every private company owning a big website is trying to squeeze money out of user or closing.