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continuants answered your question: Should I just TaskRabbit this?
How big is it? what kind of metadata are you looking for? what is your host of choice? Depending on the size, i could probably catalog them

There are about 650+ish images loosely categorized by show, character, and emotion. They all sit across about a dozen posts in my Tumblr drafts folder.

I’ve been looking at Giphy as a possible solution but their metadata is crowdsourced which is a pain (update: user accounts coming next month.) Even if they get this to work, I also need the gifs to be housed at media.tumblr.com links so that they show up properly in posts in the Tumblr Dashboard.

(That’s just a grey frame. I was being clever. Sorry.)

I need to expand my metadata to include season, episode, and (if rewritable) last used date.

At one point I started customizing a Tumblr theme to house everything but then realized that it wasn’t a good solution.

rhizomedotorg: “Perhaps due to their quality and size, frame-grab GIFs have necessarily abstracted authorship. They are deployed in variable contexts, as reactions, illustrations, or expressions. Art GIFs, on the other hand, are circulated to be admired. Their authorship is also more consistently policed, as their authors demand credit for their work.” - GIFABILITY by Giampaolo Bianconi A good (if rather thick) read.  The bit about authorship is interesting. There’s nothing necessary about the lack of authorship in GIFs. Yes, there are technical restrictions to .gif file metadata and tumblr upload file size limitations but neither of these things trump the values we decide to champion in the culture itself. If it were that important, creators would just watermark more. While there’s a strong sense of outrage among some creators, most gif makers that I come across aren’t upset when their work shows up somewhere they didn’t put it themselves. This isn’t because they aren’t proud of their work or think that it shouldn’t be admired.  Instead, it reflects a decade of internet meme culture that values propagation over the traditional signs of credit like authorship. The recognition isn’t in seeing your name on something.  The recognition is in seeing your actual work spread.
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rhizomedotorg:

“Perhaps due to their quality and size, frame-grab GIFs have necessarily abstracted authorship. They are deployed in variable contexts, as reactions, illustrations, or expressions. Art GIFs, on the other hand, are circulated to be admired. Their authorship is also more consistently policed, as their authors demand credit for their work.”

- GIFABILITY by Giampaolo Bianconi

A good (if rather thick) read.  The bit about authorship is interesting.

There’s nothing necessary about the lack of authorship in GIFs. Yes, there are technical restrictions to .gif file metadata and tumblr upload file size limitations but neither of these things trump the values we decide to champion in the culture itself. If it were that important, creators would just watermark more.

While there’s a strong sense of outrage among some creators, most gif makers that I come across aren’t upset when their work shows up somewhere they didn’t put it themselves.

This isn’t because they aren’t proud of their work or think that it shouldn’t be admired. 

Instead, it reflects a decade of internet meme culture that values propagation over the traditional signs of credit like authorship.

The recognition isn’t in seeing your name on something.  The recognition is in seeing your actual work spread.

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