Tenor
You might remember it as GIF Keyboard
This spread through many posts rather than one canonical upload.
2014·The social era
A search engine for GIFs, best known as a keyboard for phones.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- Riffsy
- Spread in
- 2014
- Made by
- David Macintosh, Erick Hachenburg and Frank Nawabi
- Original title
- Riffsy, until 2016
- Origin
- No single original
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What this wasThe story
A GIF search service built keyboard-first for phones, later bought by Google. Where Giphy made GIFs searchable, Tenor made reaching for one a keystroke, and between them the animated reaction became a normal part of a sentence.
TimelineIn order
- Made
The company is founded.1
- Later
Google buys it.1
- Later
It announces that the service other apps use to fetch its GIFs will be switched off at the end of June.1
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later
Where it came fromWhat we know
This spread through many posts rather than one identifiable original. No copy is held here — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is what this page can tell you.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this. It spread through many posts rather than from one identifiable original.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
What this was built on, each one a record of its own.
- Taken from The GIFGIF · 1996
A search engine and database for GIFs.
The social eraThe same internet
More from the social eraMore of the archive
SourcesWhat was read
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