• wraptile
    3·
    4 years ago

    Hard G. It’s funny when the creator of the gif format said it should be pronounced with j when it stands for “graphical interlaced format” — pretty clear case for G.

    Though isn’t it too late for this question as gifs are dead? as in we’ve migrated to video formats. AFAIK all of the modern browsers support playing short videos on a loop these days just like gifs just more efficient and hackable/extendable.

    • EffSee
      1·
      4 years ago

      Agreed. It’s not Jraphical.

      Although, given Facebook just paid $400 million to buy Giphy, so they’re pretty much alive and kicking thanks to social media and chat apps.

      • wraptile
        3·
        4 years ago

        most of giphy’s “gifs” are in mp4 though.

  • Maya
    2·
    4 years ago

    I think both ways sound unnatural spoken aloud because it’s one of those words that should only exist on a screen. like “lmao”.

  • SnowCode
    1·
    4 years ago

    ‘jif’ sounds so unnatural, I can’t use it. Also it doesn’t really matters to me.

  • falx
    1·
    4 years ago

    the wrong way, due to my native language where gi is soft g (think how an italian would read the name giovanni)

    but I’m slowly correcting that