huh, I contributed hundreds of hand made GIFs to tenor when I was big into Twitch, yet again the hard work of people gets eaten up by a company and closed off. Fuck you Google/Alphabet, I hope your AI eats your fucking lunch
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Tenor is Google?
I feel like megacorps should have to tag their stuff.
Parent companies shouldn't be a thing. If a company buys another company, it should be fully integrated, and all branding should be legally required to reflect the new ownership.
Parent companies shouldn't be a thing
I think stopping there is best. We don't need companies buying other companies, full stop.
Or better yet, companies should break up when they're close to getting too big.
Someone should find or make a website with a graphic showcase of corporations links between them.
yea wish we got some heads up about that :/ eh I probably missed it
This news has been around for months yet I still cannot understand why they are doing this. They can't actually be thinking that anybody would want to go to tenor.com and look at gifs right???
Discord already moved to using Klipy since early Spring or so. It's ok, I guess.
Has it? My Discord channel shows me a Tenor gif I posted just yesterday that I shared using the native search.
If they are using Klipy, it must be a hybrid solution at the moment.
When I hit the Gif button on Discord it says “search Klipy”. It has for about 4 months now.
It does for me now as well. But I've got gifs shared in my channel on 6/28 and 6/29 with the URL still hosted on Tenor, which I know came from the built-in gif browser, so it may not have been applied to all clients at the same time. Could have been in an A/B state, or maybe different app versions between OS types.
Weird, you’d think they would keep it running just for data harvesting
Kids these days have sterilized the word gooner.
Every time i see “chud” I think: Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers C.H.U.D
Is it a bad sign that i have never heard of if before?
Fuuuck. Isn't that what Signal uses?
Weirdly enough, although the API was supposedly cancelled, if you have an old client it still works fine. Currently writing this as of 2026-07-02T04:34:00Z.
Discord's gif picker doesn't go directly to Tenor, it passes through their internal CDN, so it may be some caching. But it's still funny that it works.
catbox.moe for the win
I have never seen a catbox.moe gif that worked.
Annoyingly, its on one of the most common pihole/adblocker lists, and I could never find a legitimate reason for why it is.
Anonymous file uploaders are pretty commonly abused to distribute malware so considering how popular catbox is that's probably how it got on there.
Where are you hanging out that has you so bitter over gifs? Find a better community or friends.
On a related note why are you so bitter over people being annoyed by the enshittification of yet another small source of joy in this hell world?
Is this that sour grapes thing? Or do you have an issue with people using reaction gifs to convey a concept that's either too convoluted or requires too much context to type out?
For example, this entire comment could have just been;

Teams uses Tenor. It’s how I send gifs at work. RIP to me annoying my coworkers with bongo cat.
Good riddance. I hate convos that are just a long list of useless gifs rather than actual comprehensible text messages. I don't want giant images with half my screen moving to accompany each of your three-word texts.
Those are overused, overstimulating, and make conversations dumb.







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