It can be exhilarating, exciting, ecstatic and plenty of other adjectives that begin with an e. All stories that I could go to work the next day with and regale with glee. In fact, many of my pals find it downright nervewracking!
1. THE BUILD UP…
It can be awkward AF ?
GIFs are the Esperanto of our Internet culture, a semi-nonsensical, visual language that acts as a stand-in for everything from random thoughts and reactions to intricate art and instructions. GIFs live on our websites, blogs, emails, Slacks and messages. Today, they're as ubiquitous as air and as inescapable as a Donald Trump soundbite. Creation is not a concern, instead culling through the thousands of GIFs available on sites like Gfycat , Giphy , Imgur , Reddit and Tumblr to find the perfect reaction, meme and visual joke is the challenge. To the casual observer, the GIF phenomenon is relatively new, a canny, looping-image file format built for maximum entertainment at minimal file sizes. So imagine the shockwaves when Unisys piped up in laid claim to the LZW-patented compression algorithm inside every single piece of GIF-creation software, and was prepared to charge a license fee for all the applications that used it. Tiny, looping GIF animations like that graphical construction sign were everywhere in the late '90s and early s, and they could be found in abundance on one of the earliest personal website-hosting platforms, GeoCities. Launched in , GeoCities rose to become one of the most popular sites on the web. Millions of people built personal websites on the free platform. In hindsight, incredibly tacky, but to my teenage brain, this was so awesome.
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Zac Efron decisively ditches his squeaky clean High School Movie persona for one as a red-blooded horndog with this week's That Awkward Moment , an R-rated adventure in the grand tradition of '80s sex comedies. That Efron's latest can't hold a candle to those hormonally charged classics isn't an enormous surprise, since as the past two decades have shown, making a boisterous sex romp takes more than just a handful of pimply actors and some women eager to flash their wares for the camera. With GIFs, naturally. Ivan Reitman and Bill Murray's movie careers were jumpstarted by this gem, in which Murray stars as the head counselor at a low-rent summer camp, where he mentors — and is aided in his own quest for love by — a lonely nerd. Though not quite as out-and-out raunchy as its sequels the best of which is Meatballs III , it's nonetheless an amusingly juvenile slice of sex-charged silliness. Headlined by three Playboy Playmates — and Danny Bonaduce! Which they do, while wearing tight-fighting shirts with the film's title emblazoned across their oft-bouncing chests. Set in the '50s but defined by a distinctive '80s mix of slapstick-y humor and boing! Inane, immature, and less than flattering to women, it stands as an almost pitch-perfect look into the mind of a pubescent boy. The less moronic counterpart to Porky's , Fast Times at Ridgemont High made a star out of Sean Penn, confronted teen romance — and the serious consequences it can sometimes entail — with both comedy and sobriety, and bestowed a generation with its signature cinematic wet dream in the figure of Phoebe Cates exiting a pool.
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