Bound to be a classic?

Surely this one will be one of those classic animated gifs that you tell your grandkids about years from now.


GIF made with the NYPL Labs Stereogranimator

I can almost picture the scene now.

You sit your grandchild's hologram on your holo-knee and tell them about the time you were following a blogging contest between two brothers (and this is back when being someone's brother didn't just mean you were fertilized in the same genetics lab).

"Oh, those crazy halcyon aughts" you'll think before you remember that it actually happened in the teens.  Then you'll recall that one of these guys kept posting crap to run up his numbers.  Inadvertently, of course, one of these posts was of an animated gif of superior quality.  The gif was so good you immediately knew it was something special.

"Of course you now know that gif as the winner of the first giffy, but back then it was nothing more than an instant hit" you'll reminisce while patting the hologram on the back (this is as close to physical contact as your state of suspended animation will allow).

Soon enough you'll be overcome with memories of the old not-everything-was-a-hologram world and maybe a tear will come to your eye.  In the end all of this sadness for a bygone era is immediately washed away when you see the smile in your holo-grandchild's face as they come to appreciate that you were one of the first viewers of the first winner of a giffy.  If kids still asked for things like autographs this surely would have been an instance when you would have been forced to break out the signature that you hadn't had to use since universal adoption of fingerprint identification.

Cameron: 11
Neil: 0