OK folks, I think it’s time for a #GIF & #meme #MegaThread for all your #shitposting needs – including handy-dandy #ALTtext (of course) because everyone deserves to be able to join in the fun & normalising #accessibility is #coolAF… 🤘 💁♀️
I use my phone’s text replacement function to save ALT text in a way that allows me to easily drop it on images in any subsequent shitpost, & I encourage you to do the same if your device(s) also have a text replacement / text extender function
personally, I use // in front of the trigger word so that I don’t accidentally expand text all the time, but you can pick anything that’s easy to type & unlikely to accidentally trigger the text replacement
let’s start with the classics as a worked example…
for the GIF below (posted here as a vid ‘coz masto converts actual GIFs to vids anyway to save on bandwidth), I use
trigger: //getout
expands to: A clip of Cary Grant from a black and white movie. He has an exasperated look on his face and is motioning towards the door with one arm while saying “Get out.”
once I have a bunch™ of these in the thread I’ll turn it into a blog post complete with all the GIFs / vids / memes for ease of future reference & archiving 🙃
please feel free to reply to this thread with your own examples of #artisinal #HandCrafted GIFs & memes and the ALT text you use to describe them
itgrrl
in reply to itgrrl • • •another of my faves that I’ve used since forever – #Tealc is #indeed always Teal’c… 💁♀️
trigger: //indeed
expands to: Teal’c from Stargate SG1 saying “Indeed”
#Stargate #SG1
#GIFs
#memes
#ALText
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itgrrl
in reply to itgrrl • • •this is a great #GIF to give someone a classy nod of appreciation (usually in response to their own #classyAF #shitpost 🤪)
trigger: //champagne
expands to: Anne Hathaway in the movie The Hustle raises a glass of champagne in tribute. An animated glint appears as she tips the champagne glass forward.
#GIFs
#memes
#ALText
itgrrl
in reply to itgrrl • • •a classic (static) #meme this time, from my first #fandom love, #StarTrek 🖖
I post this on just about every “#HappyBirthday” post or comment I ever make, as I am nothing if not a creature of habit 🌶️🧠 🤓
trigger: //commendable
expands to: Mr. Spock from Star Trek (TOS) raising an eyebrow and saying, “You successfully made a full transit around your local star. Commendable.”
#LLAP
#GIFs
#memes
#ALText
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in reply to itgrrl • •All of my fave GIFs are smaller and of a 1990s flavor, especially when a spam-hacking operation invaded my Win98 machine via which I got their info and invaded THEIR machine to swipe 'em.
itgrrl
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • • •@claralistensprechen5th welp, they’re all vids on masto now & all under 7KB 🙃
(also, bold choice to (allegedly) admit to potential (alleged) CFAA violations on social media… 😜)
Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to itgrrl • •@itgrrl
There were no CFAA violations in the early 1990s. New rules came about BECAUSE of entities like the ones I described (Yatoula and Xiti, both of which have been out of business since then).
I don't doubt it about the masto vids, but the account I'm posting from is a Friendica instance and it doesn't do videos, so there's that.
itgrrl
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • • •@claralistensprechen5th
> Robert Tappan Morris has entered the chat… 😜
the GIFs you attached show up in my timeline as vids, I’m not sure whether they get auto-converted by my instance or yours
Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to itgrrl • •Ah. They're uploaded as GIFs because Friendica doesn't do vids, so it's clear they've been converted. Can't say that I see the logic in that design.
itgrrl
in reply to Radio Free Trumpistan • • •@claralistensprechen5th I’m pretty sure it’s a bandwidth decision, since (e.g.) a 1.4MB GIF will convert to a 73KB MP4^ without any noticeable loss of quality
convert once from GIF to MP4 on upload (or federation of toot), serve the MP4 version for a 20x reduction in bandwidth 💁♀️
from my own experience working with websites, MP4 is still much more widely supported by browsers than either WEBP or AVIF, which I’m assuming is why the conversion to video instead of another image format
^ based on a GIF / MP4 pair in my photo library that was converted by my masto instance on upload
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in reply to itgrrl • •Ah--I was wondering about that, and yes there is a file size limit such that elaborate animated GIFs won't upload to a Friendica instance either. The fewer frames, and the smaller pixel numbers, the better.
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