These new “audio GIFs” work on all mobile and desktop browsers at launch, and will come to Gfycat’s iOS and Android apps in 2019, as well as to its API documentation for developers.

GIF have taken over online chats, and social network feeds like wildfire. ... Shabaam will begin to log your audio while simultaneously playing the GIF so that you can perfectly align the sound.

A GIF created in 2008 has been making the rounds across the internet recently as viewers continue to be confused about why they can hear audio from the image file despite it containing no audio ...