Mobile GIF platform Tenor is out with the list of its top 5 gifts this year. The company's co-founder and CEO David McIntosh explains what they say about sentiment in 2017.
The top five GIFs of 2017 are the guy blinking, baby crying, Jonah Hill's "yay," Shaq laughing, and Obama's "Oh yeah." McIntosh says negative emotion searches went up 31 percent in 2017. Meanwhile, positive emotions decreased 18 percent.
"We can get a great sense of how people are actually thinking and feeling," says McIntosh. Though GIF searches were more negative overall, searches for "laughing" nearly doubled since 2017.
The entire Eastern Seaboard is in the path of Tropical Storm Isaias; Dr. Fauci comes to the aid of Dr. Birx; retail bankruptcies keep on coming; first drug to treat actively suicidal patients & NHL back on the ice.
Parents in Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee are among those who will be the first to navigate the new academic year as schools open up in parts of those states this week.
Tropical Storm Isaias looks likely to impact just about everyone on the Eastern Seaboard this week. What does Microsoft want with TikTok? Plus, SpaceX completes a milestone.
CEO of DroppTV, Gurps Rai, and rapper Kid Daytona talked to Cheddar about the e-commerce revenue generation for musicians the platform provides.
Authorities say British man, a Florida man and a Florida teen hacked the Twitter accounts of prominent politicians, celebrities and technology moguls to scam people around the globe out of more than $100,000 in Bitcoin.
Heads up, east coast: a hurricane is coming. The president suggests delaying the election as the worst economic data ever recorded comes out. Plus, tech earnings blowout, Obama's stirring eulogy for John Lewis and the return of Love, Hate, Ate!
Former NFL player and current Rock Church pastor, Miles McPherson, discusses his 2018 book 'The Third Option' on embracing differences along racial lines to achieve equity and justice.
John Lewis was celebrated as an American hero during his funeral as former President Barack Obama and others called on people to follow Lewis’ example and take action in the face of injustice.
Magic Johnson just closed a new deal with CBD company Uncle Bud's. The NBA legend talks benefits of CBD and joining the team at Uncle Bud's.
Statues commemorating the Confederacy are being torn down across America as a result of racial unrest following the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. But the largest monument in the country has been left out of the conversation: Stone Mountain monument in Georgia. The 42-foot-deep, 76-by-158 foot carving of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, and Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson sits on the face of the world’s largest piece of exposed granite. Removing it could require bitter political debate and a year-long demolition. But for most, the racist history it represents is too hard to ignore.
