Right this moment, in a Broadcast Channels chat with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Instagram chief Adam Mosseri introduced you can now submit GIFs in Instagram feedback.

As you’ll be able to see in these instance screens, now you can search and share GIPHY GIFs within the remark stream, offering one other approach to reply to Instagram posts.

Which feels prefer it ought to have been a factor years in the past – although Mosseri did additionally notice that it’s ‘a little bit of a ‘lastly’ characteristic’.

It’s much more uncommon while you additionally contemplate that Instagram added the capability to answer to Tales with GIFs again in 2020, whereas you too can use GIF stickers inside Tales themselves, so interacting through GIFs has been a factor on IG for a while. Simply not in remark streams – although Instagram has additionally labored to maintain its feedback as clear and text-based as attainable, with no linking choices or different instruments.

However now, you’ll possible see twitching photographs of response GIFs everytime you scroll down. That would facilitate new inventive capability, and supply extra methods to have interaction with followers.

It’s not a significant shift, particularly on condition that GIFs can be found in remark threads in most different apps. However it’s one other consideration.

GIFs in Instagram feedback can be found within the newest model of the app.