Using GIPHY - Get Smaller Gifs

Hello wooters!

Are you tired of seeing this in posts after 5 minutes:

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You see this because we limit the size of the photos/gifs because we have to pay for all this storage. Money, people.

Anyway, if you use GIPHY - and many of you do - there’s a quickish fix for this. Follow along.


Go to the GIPHY page for your gif and look for the “Media” link:

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On that screen, there’s a “Small” option. Copy and use that link to post your gif.

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Thanks for that. I just snag whatever off of google. I don’t usually bother to go to the source. I will try this is the future, fer sure.

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gify seems to have changed how they offer images.

Now, after you click on the image you want, you have to click on [Share]. Scroll down and you will see links for [Small], [Social], [Original], and [MP4]. Select [Small] (usually) and then click on [Copy GIF Link]. This usually works.

In at least one case, though, I had to select the actual smallest sized link - which in one case was [Original]. Woot couldn’t process that link, though, so I had to paste it into a browser tab. Once that came up, I right-clicked on the image and selected [Copy Link Address]. That was the link I had to use.

Just thought I’d update this in case anyone else needs it.

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