@rorybro and team launched gifYouTube 6 months ago as a simple site for creating GIFs from YouTube videos. They just released a big update focused on curating GIFs using an upvote/downvote system.
There are many different ways to curate content (e.g. @thejulielogan curates GIFs editorially for Nutmeg). Why did you decide to go with this model, Rory?
@thejulielogan@rrhoover Much <3 Ryan!
We felt user created GIFs is the purest of pure viral content (GIF made every few seconds, over 1.3M GIFs made to date - a new awesome video comes out and it's GIF'd almost instantly). With the content being user up voted (similar to product hunt) we want a lot of the best GIFs/videos resonate to the top, which we felt would be pretty organic process.
We're getting a ton of GIFs created/minute, and felt editorially we wouldn't be able to find all of the awesome GIFs.
We're counting on you hunters to upvote and downvote!
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