CW: Early late-night shit post
Gif is a new trickster god. They have many forms, and even if the thumbnail is something g you've seen before, it might've been altered and there is no way to tell until you've seen it all the way through.
We can't even decide how it's pronounced (it's yiff, fite me)
The moving image has always been with us, starting with puppetry and probably back further.