News & Reviews:   GIF

Some of you are probably using a lot of GIF images to send to your friends and family on your social apps as a reaction or joke, but do you know who invented the GIF? Well, it was Stephen Wilhite and he recently just passed away last week at the age of 74 due to COVID-19. 

Based on a statement by wabetainfo.com, it seems that WhatsApp could soon have a feature called “Expiring media” sometime in the near future which could allow users to send pictures and video that expire after a certain duration. While not much is known in regards to when this feature will be rolled out to the masses, our source also mentioned that it might also notify the sender if the recipient were to screenshot the sent media.

People love GIFs these days and we often see them as responses to things posted on social media. Well, soon you'll be able to spice up your GIFs by adding yourself into it for a cameo. Snapchat is currently working on a Cameo feature, which allows you to insert your face into GIFs.