The GIF That Keeps On Giving: Malta GIFs Revives On Facebook To Add Some Drama To Your Salott Comments
GIFs are great. They’re the perfect placeholder for when you’re at a loss for words. Someone just confessed their undying love for you over a Messenger conversation? Hit them with a GIF of Adam Levine hiding behind his shirt. Is a foreigner cleaning a beach that you just buried a few cigarette butts at? GIF them with a short snap of one of the Real Housewives giving a side-eye.
Whether you understand them or not, GIFs are a staple in online communication these days
And thanks to an old Tumblr account that has been revived on our favourite blue social network (while we’re here, this really ought to mean Twitter but it doesn’t) – Facebook just got 20% cooler thanks to the revival of Malta GIFs.
Malta, rejoice and embrace the movement. We’ve got some absolute gems of animations that can serve as any reaction to any situation below to help you get to grips with GIFs.
1. Żgur?
Group chat blowing up with weekend plans while you’re at the office? Żgur. Want to stand your ground with a point you’ve made? Żgur. Are you sure? Żgur.
2. When you know your shit has just hit the fan.
Has Shyli’s ex-fiancé exposed more of her drama or another Tinder account? Slap this bad boy down in the comments as if it were Eddie Murphy shoving his face with popcorn but better.
3. When you need to just accept your fate.
Has a friend just dropped you in it by tagging you as that one friend who is always late to things on Bolt’s latest giveaway post? This GIF is like a sigh of solemn mela if ever there was one.
4. Has LovinMalta really ground your gears again with their latest listicle about, like, totally living in Malta?
Int bis-serjeta? Sometimes a little satire can be just what the doctor ordered. That is, of course, when it is understood by the intended audience and not hijacked by the collective cave-dwelling population who can’t see the forest for the trees.
5. Did you like Greta Thunberg’s latest Facebook status? Let her know with this little condescending piece.
6. When your favourite local activist makes a good point on an early morning status update and the comments are still quiet…
A double entendre of “louder for those in the back” and “come on out from the under bridge my little trolling lovelies”.
7. Save yourself the effort of having to type “Go back to your country”
8. When the comments thread banter dies down and you realise you’ve just had a joyous few minutes of hilarity with total strangers who may or may not be your neighbour/cousin/uncle/mother/teacher/local councillor.
9. When your medieval mentality can’t shine through with your Menglish and you really think hanging should still be used today.
Or you’re just really pissed.
10. When your partner makes one of those “if they don’t comment in an hour they owe you X” posts and you get there in 30 minutes flat.
11. When you’re trying to slide into the DMs but have the grace and charm of a Kardashian eating a Kit Kat.
12. When she’s being nasty but doesn’t accept unsolicited nudes.
And you wanna show her what she’s getting herself into.
BONUS: When you think you know better than everyone else.
Can also be used to say no, announce your imminent ignore of a message, disagreement with a statement, sarcastic denial acknowledgment.
These really are the GIFs that keep on giving and we can’t wait to start using them in The Salott.