Dip Ghuman (u/dip5ta)

Business Development Manager



Raise an upvote if you love a good GIF!

Reddit is home to many GIF loving communities – from r/HighQualityGifs and r/reactiongifs to r/chemicalreactiongifs and (for you action aficionados) r/MichaelBayGifs.

Whether you pronounce them “GIFs” or “JIFs,” all of these moving image formats are welcome here on Reddit. Because of the love Reddit has for GIFs, we are excited to announce the launch of both GIPHY and Gfycat GIF bots for the Reddit community that you can start using today!

Before GIF bots, redditors would have the cumbersome task of searching for the right GIF and copy and pasting a link into a comment. No more! Now all you need to do is type either /giphy or /gfycat with a [keyword] command when responding to a comment to call a GIF randomly chosen from GIPHY or Gfycat’s respective collections of top-shelf GIFs. The GIF bot works across Reddit desktop, iOS, iPad, and Android platforms.

Remember, redditors will be able to see the auto-generated bot link to a GIF and the bot will echo back the original keyword command to confirm. And if you don’t get a response from the GIF bot, it’s possible the subreddit you’re commenting in doesn’t allow bots, or your comment is too complex for the bot to understand.

We are excited to see the hilarity and creativity of what the Reddit community does with randomly generated GIFs.

Cheers to GIPHY and Gfycat for supporting the Reddit community!

Want to learn more? Check out the announcement posts from GIPHY and Gfycat.