For Those Using The Gift of The Gif Properly (We Salute You)

So I’m on twitter RT’ing this artist’s renditions of gender swapped heroes (yall know who I am), right? and I come across a convo my friends are having. I wanna stress that I came across the convo on my Twitter feed cause really Twitter as a whole is just eavesdropping on folks’ conversations in general right. They’re fellow writers/performers and one forgot her neck pillow for her flight. Her friends shared her grief with a “Nooooo.” And there in the moment of them comforting their friend and being decent human beings a window of opportunity was opened. The opportunity to make the perfect pop culture reference and joke upon the situation via a gif, the small animated miracles of the internet.

@asgharthegrouch NOOOO — franny choi (@fannychoir) November 7, 2015

@kaysarahsera @fannychoir @asgharthegrouch “OOOOOOOOOOOOOH YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!” pic.twitter.com/G20vhoPZ3f — Omar Holmon (@OmarHolmon) November 7, 2015

It was the perfect set up for a Family Guy reference!Behind the scenes of making that reference, SO MUCH WORK went into getting the gif. I found it but it was too big, I had to downsize it so it could fit onto Twitter, then it was too grainy, so I had to search again, even considering making the gif myself. I then found one the right size but it wouldn’t save to a format my computer recognized, I THEN had to post the URL to my Tumblr in a private post and save it from there before I was finally able to transfer it over into Twitter and make this joke th…