Why Are the Platforms Picking Klipy?

• So the reason every service like Discord is switching to Klipy is, really, that the founders are Tenor people. I don't mean that sounds trustworthy (we clearly cannot trust Tenor, or any Google service, ever again). I mean that they're using the same general ideas and technologies. So it's easy to switch, and anyway it's the same search results for images.

Why is Klipy getting away with copying Tenor?

• Because, as I said, these are Google/Tenor people at Klipy. I think the reason they didn't get flagged by Tenor for mass-downloading their catalog...including our images...is that this is understood between them. Google WANTS Klipy to take over as an independent outsider, like an employer laying off an employee and then hiring him as an independent contractor.

Why should we use Klipy as GIF makers?

Because:

1. Klipy's getting better
   • It used to be pretty bad, now it's slightly better than Tenor (which always had a garbage interface and metrics), and they're definitely listening to user complaints about what is still lacking. I have named some improvements they needed, and they've added several of those.
2. We can claim our images there
   • Them having my GIFs without crediting me pissed me off at first, but they have a form where we can CLAIM all of our GIFs again. I have the same huge list on there now as I do here, and they are getting more views than they did on Tenor, faster. Well, other than a few I have on Tenor that are around a million. No million-counts on Klipy for me, so far. But I have more in the hundreds of thousands on Klipy than I did on Tenor.
3. Klipy didn't steal them, Tenor wanted it
   • I do think the reason they were allowed to scrape all of our GIFs is that they're the stealthily Google-anointed replacement that Tenor INTENDED to allow to copy its images, EULA or no. Google had promised to support API users, and this is, for better or worse, the enshittified way they're doing that.
4. We have no alternative, really
   • I make graphics for people to use. Klipy is now the only real place for that to happen at scale. I mean, GIPHY is a farce. And what else is there?
5. Revenue-Sharing
   • Given that we've all been posting images without getting paid — like guys who went viral on YouTube 20 years ago and got nothing for it — that Klipy claims to want to work out a way to share revenue with us as "creatives" is a bonus, if it happens.

the gif is off a dude on a couch, he turns his head to look at the camera and raising his eyebrows. kinda like that one gif of cheek doing the same thing but instead he’s looking directly at the camera.

I am sad to say this, but tenor is over. I woke up this morning, saw that some of my gifs had been approve (yippy) and was happy to see them not take a week to be approved. After breakfast (note: I live in Australia, it is morning time here) i go on to discord to shitpost as you do. BUT i try to search for a gif I made to use in chat... and it wasn't there. I think "ok, discord must have an update" so i restart discord and tried again. Nothing. I then realized what today is... it's the end of the month... the end of tenor api. This has been the second gif website i have had to leave and i hate having to do it every time, first gfycat now tenor. Oh well, I've already made a migration request with kliphy so I can continue my gifing endeavor over there. Thank you everyone and thank you tenor and I'm sorry for making so many issue reports to you just because i would have liked to see my gifs approved.

Note: I know gboard is still using the api, it's just that discord and twitter don't have it anymore that makes me say it's over.