Gfycat is shutting down September 1st

That's gonna result in a massive amount of dead links. The internet really is dying...

I guess it's just impossible to make these types of large media storage sites profitable. The business model itself is inherently unprofitable despite there being a need for these sites. Like youtube will never bring a cent back to google, but they keep running it because it locks people into their ecosystem for data harvesting.

Could also be that snap bought gfycat just to kill it.

I'm not surprised. How can this be sustainable? Images are embedded in the websites with no way for Gfycat to make any revenue.

This past year in particular has really hammered it in for me that even if you can never truly delete something from the internet, it doesn't mean it'll still be there when you're looking for it. Saving a link to something is not saving it at all, and I'm starting to become a data hoarder.

Man, I really feel like the internet is under a major shake up at the moment. Feels weird.

edit: spelling

I used Gfycat (before uploads broke) all the time mainly for its silent autoplay in Discord to share gaming clips with my friends. Any alternatives? Or am I now just slapping my vids straight into Discord?

Wow that sucks

NO!