As we enter the ultimate weeks of the 12 months, we’re now within the annual awards and recognition season, the place the key platforms acknowledge the highest creators, content material developments, and extra amongst their communities.

As we speak, it’s GIPHY’s flip to showcase its high developments, with a list of the most well-liked new GIFs which have emerged amongst its many hundreds of thousands of customers.

And whereas I can’t provide the full animated GIF expertise right here, these have been the highest new GIFs of 2023, based on GIPHY information:

The highest GIF of the 12 months was “Yay” by artist Mo Willems, which options characters from his in style ebook collection.

As per GIPHY:

“This GIF has an ideal stability of expression and animation that clearly connects Gerald (Elephant) & Piggie — the celebrities of 25 New York Occasions best-selling books — with GIPHY customers.”

Different high GIFs included “Glad Birthday” that includes singer Saweetie, “Aggravated Coach”, “My Existence Angers Him”, and, unsurprisingly, a GIF of Ryan Gosling as Ken from the Barbie film.

Different in style GIF developments stemmed from TV reveals “The Final of Us” and “Succession”, whereas GIFs of Taylor Swift put Travis elevated by 497% after Swift began attending Chiefs video games.

GIPHY has additionally highlighted its high channel companions, together with the NFL, Peacock, and Howdy All.

GIPHY has additionally introduced that GIF creator Jinzhan took out top-billing because the most-viewed creator of the 12 months.

Different GIF artists on the checklist have been Adam J. Kurtz, DINOSALLY, Megan Lockhart, and Chippy the Canine.

It’s an attention-grabbing overview of evolving GIF developments, and the way these animated pictures may help individuals specific themselves on-line. And positively, utilizing the precise GIF may help to spice up your messaging, so it could be price being attentive to the most recent GIF developments to contemplate how they could additionally improve your messaging.

It is also been an enormous 12 months for GIPHY itself, which was all however acquired by Meta, earlier than a U.Ok. ruling overturned the acquisition. So now it is owned by Shutterstock as an alternative, although it will have been attention-grabbing to see what Meta had deliberate for broader GIF integration and utilization.

We’ll by no means know. 

You possibly can try GIPHY’s full annual evaluation publish (together with animated examples) right here.