- I see that all over my Twitter.
- I even do it sometimes. - Yeah.
- I'll just go...
- (FBE) So we're gonna have you pick your favorite GIF
from the ones we just showed you and have you recreate it.
♪ (dramatic chord) ♪
The year is almost coming to an end, so we're gonna look back
at some of the most popular GIFs of 2017.
- Oh, that's exciting. GIFs, okay. I'm ready.
- I've GIF'd a couple times. (chuckles) I'm a GIF giver.
- Are they "jiffs" or "giffs"? No one knows. I'm team "giff."
- I say "giff." I understand the guy who made them says "jiff,"
but you're wrong. - I'm more of an emoji guy.
Poop emoji for everything.
Sister's getting married! Poop emoji.
- (FBE) These GIFs were chosen from lists compiled
by both GIPHY and Tenor based on the data
they've collected from their users, so all of these are GIFs,
though some are memes. - Perfect.
- Okay. Yes! - I am so excited.
This is exactly what I need right now.
- (in high pitch) Let's just look at some GIFs, man. Let's do it.
- Ah, yes. Ah, yes, I remember the guy.
- I do this in just real life. Any time someone says something,
I go...
- I feel like this GIF gets used to me a lot,
because I feel like someone is always being like,
"Tana, think a little more."
- I saw one... he was doing this, and it's like, "You can't get fired
if you don't have a job." (laughs) I was like, "Dang."
I've been there.
- (FBE) So this comes from the web series, #HoodDocumentary.
- Yeah, I knew that one.
I'm probably not gonna know the rest of them.
- (FBE) So people have called it things like the Think About It GIF.
Tenor actually ranks this as the number one meme of the year.
- I can see that, 'cause everyone can use it.
- (laughs) Here's a check for nothing, 'cause no one
gets paid for a GIF. - (FBE) What is it about this
that makes it stand out more than others?
- It's relatable. Everything that goes viral is relatable.
- That one can be used in so many scenarios.
So can't fight with your folks at Christmas if you don't go
to Christmas dinner.
- Of course. Every single girl in the world loves this one.
- Ahh! I love this one!
- Get Him to the Greek, I never saw that movie,
but I did see that GIF.
- Fun fact, from my favorite movie of all time.
Get Him to the Greek, my favorite movie.
- This one's so basic. I would never use this.
My mom would use that.
- (FBE) They actually call that one the Jonah Hill Yay.
- The Jonah Hill Yay! That's a new dance.
Everybody do the Jonah Hill Yay!
- (FBE) Tenor ranked this as the third most-used GIF of the year.
- Yeah. That doesn't actually surprise me.
- (FBE) Was this a GIF that you used a lot this year
to express or excitement or do you have another go-to excitement GIF?
- I go for the emojis. I'm less of a GIF guy,
and more of an emoji guy.
My go-to excitement GIF is always gonna be Kermit the Frog
flailing like, (imitates Kermit) "Yeahhh!"
- I've never used it. - Yeah.
- I think it's so cheesy. I don't know.
I like GIFs that are a little more smart.
(laughs) - Salt Bae.
The man, the myth, the legend.
- (both) Ohh. - Salt Bae.
- I never saw the GIF format of this one.
I only saw the meme format.
- This was so viral. - So many different variations
of it, like people would Photoshop faces as the salt.
- I think that's what made it viral.
- I actually was gonna try to be slutty Salt Bae for Halloween,
and then it didn't really work out.
- How do you even use that as a GIF?
There's no circumstances that I would ever
send this to my friends. - (FBE) So that was
Turkish chef Nusret, or more commonly known online
as Salt Bae. - Salt Bae!
- (FBE) We covered Salt Bae on our Adults React show
way back in January. This particular meme
spawned several other versions of it and became one
of the first big memes of 2017.
- You might say that it seasoned the internet.
- What does it take for a meme to truly catch on like this?
- I feel like just the sass with it. Like, that's not--
like you could just, you know, put a little salt,
but he was just like, "Mm."
- It's just the confidence in it. You've never seen somebody
be confident with sprinkling salt, 'cause usually we're just like,
"Ooh, I need my salt on this."
- When you are so genuinely extra, like people just love it,
'cause that's not how ordinary people cut steak
or put salt on it. - Everyone uses it,
but they make edits of it and just add on to it, you know?
And that's what makes it more viral.
- That's so cute! I have never seen that.
- Aww! That is so cute! I feel like parents on Facebook
would really use that. - What... is this?
That's not shareable in my opinion. - People are really out here
just sending this to each other?
- (FBE) That one's actually called Love Gnome.
According to GIPHY, he's actually the number one
most viewed GIF on the website this year
with over 340 million views. - Seriously? I am becoming a gnome,
because I'm gonna just take that and run with it.
- I feel like a lot of people just left their computer on
and let it replay, 'cause that is not
worth 340 million views.
- (FBE) Do you find this GIF deserving of the title
most viewed GIF of the year?
- I mean, it's cute. Someone made that (laughs),
so I gotta give it respect.
I've seen other ways of showing love with GIF forms.
- Maybe not that many. It's cute and when couples
are trying to be sappy on Twitter and Facebook,
"Oh, I love you!" and then they send that.
So I get that.
- A lot of hard work goes into it,
so it's well deserved. - And it crocheted a little heart!
- That 100% deserves most viewed. - For sure.
It's so cute. - Mm-hmm.
'Cause I'm not gonna sit and watch Salt Bae for three hours.
- No, I like those ones where I'm like, "Aww!"
- That's really funny. That's really funny.
For a guy that knows nothing about what he's doing,
the guy's doing his best.
- I believe he drew it.
- When you go into the politics world on the internet,
there's a big audience. - There were so many variations
of this GIF. It was beautiful! Imgur took ahold
and Reddit took ahold of this, and went, "I drew a thing,"
and they put everything on there.
- (FBE) So that Trump Draws meme. it was a big year for Donald Trump
in terms of memes and GIFs. - Yeah.
That's one way of looking at it.
- (FBE) But then again, it's not just Trump.
Presidents and public figures in general get the meme treatment
with former President Obama also getting a fair share
made of him as well. - Oh! True.
- (FBE) What do you think about the virality of Trump
now that he's president? - Yeah, I mean,
it's pretty easy for him to do anything
and then it goes viral. He's a big bullseye.
- It's funny to look at these memes and just giggle.
No matter who's side you're on, that's funny.
- It's a different angle for sure than past presidents.
It's definitely more mean-spirited. - Yeah.
And the people who are creating this obviously have their thoughts
about him. - Yeah.
- Obama had a lot of memes 'cause people actually love Obama,
you know? Like you could just-- I would send a cute GIF
of Obama to someone if I was gonna send a GIF.
But Trump, people hate Trump. People love to make fun of Trump.
He really, really [bleep] sucks.
- Pre-president Trump, it was more, "Hey! Look at this guy! He's crazy.
Here's a meme. Here's a GIF," whereas now, it's like,
"Look what he did. Here's a meme. Here's a GIF." (laughs)
- Haters gonna hate. Oh my god, yes!
- He's got the walk down, jeez.
- This wasn't from this year. - Yup!
- This video's from the 1940s. - Are you sure?
- If you showed me that with 100 other ones,
that would not make my top 10. It's clever, but top 10?
- For social media influencers, that's a big one,
'cause we all have a lot of haters.
- (FBE) Well, this GIF is usually called Haters Gonna Hate
and has been viewed this year over 134 million times
according to GIPHY. - (both chuckle) What?!
- I've never seen that!
- (FBE) Why do you think that works so well?
- Those are actually my favorite types of GIFs are the ones
where they take something old and put something current
on top of it. - I feel like
it's everyone's spirit animal. They just wish they were like that,
you know? Like, walking into any room that confident.
- Everybody has some haters somewhere
so it's just that much more relatable.
If you're doing well, if you're doing bad,
they're just gonna hate you. Trollers gonna troll. Mm-hmm.
Salt Bae's gonna salt.
- Ahh! (whispers) Stranger Things. Oh my god, obsessed.
- Ohh! That's funny. I've never seen this.
It's the old forward-reverse boomerang GIF.
- Just skyrocketed as soon as Stranger Things 2 came out.
- I remember that from the trailer. (laughs) It was like all these
creepy and scary things happening. They're upside down
and then all of a sudden, "Hey, party time."
- Your screen is not broken,
I was just trying to create a GIF for you. You're welcome.
- (FBE) So obviously that was a GIF made from the Netflix series,
Stranger Things. - I've seen both seasons.
Great show. - (FBE) So that show has been huge
and social media's a big reason why with things like GIFs and memes.
Do you think that a big reason why a show
might get so popular as it has
is because of kind of its ability to be a part of meme culture,
internet culture in general? - Oh yeah. I think so.
- I think sometimes even memes from shows make that show popular,
'cause I didn't know about Stranger Things
until I saw a ton of memes about it.
- People use GIFs on Twitter all the time. People are talking
about Stranger Things on Twitter all the time.
That one makes perfect sense.
- If you aren't really a meme on the internet,
you're kind of seen as irrelevant.
You've got Wendy's, for example. You know what I mean?
Everyone was like, "Wendy's... ehh." Now people go to Wendy's
just because they killed the Twitter game.
- I don't think it has anything to do with it.
If you're already a fan of the show, you like the GIF.
But no one's gonna watch a GIF, and be like,
"Oh, I gotta watch that show."
- (claps) Thank you. (laughs) Every time someone was surprised
in any form at all, this GIF came into play.
- I love this GIF. This is my favorite one by far.
- That is one of my favorite memes. I've definitely used that meme.
- I see this one constantly. - I see that all over my Twitter.
- I even do it sometimes. - Yeah.
- I'll just go...
- (FBE) So that was the Blinking Guy or Confused Guy, which Tenor ranked
as the number one most shared new GIF of 2017,
while GIPHY named this the number two most viewed
on their platform with over 226 million views.
- (exhales in awe) That is a lot of views!
- (FBE) A lot of people say this might be the GIF of the year.
Would you agree? - I would fully agree,
and I think it is very deserving of number one.
- Yes, and I'll tell you why. That I've exclusively seen as a GIF,
which means that the viewership on GIPHY or whatever
or Tenor, was it? That's just there. That doesn't even include
all the millions of times I've seen it on Twitter and stuff.
- Definitely, because you can put it for anything.
- You really can. - You can use it for anything.
When someone doesn't make sense, when there's a weird picture.
- When someone posts something awesome, you...
- (FBE) So finally, we've got a great post department here at FBE.
So we're gonna have you pick your favorite GIF
from the ones we just showed you and have you recreate it.
- Yes! Yes! Here we go.
- (FBE) So which one do you wanna recreate?
- We're doing the.. - We're going to the...
- ...confused... - (both) ...man.
- I gotta do the Think About It. I'm gonna do a Think About It.
All right, here we go.
- I'm gonna do the Jonah one.
- (chuckles) Haters gonna hate!
- Let's do the happy one. Ready? - Ready?
Set, go.
- You can make it this so you can write something
on a piece of paper? - (FBE) Yeah.
- They can do that?
- I wanna draw Trump as a doggy.
Woof, woof, bitch.
I tried. I drew a thing.
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Make sure you tweet it to all of us.
- Hey, guys. Ethan here from FBE. Thank you so much for watching
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And happy holidays and happy new year
from all of us here at FBE.