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After years of obscurity, the GIF has made a mammoth-sized comeback to the Internet. These moving pictures evoke emotion and affect on those who view them combined with the power of pop culture. As our reading tells us, the rhetoric of GIFS \u201callows the user to provide a visual representation of how they are feeling, or how they act in a particular situation\u2014expressions which are perhaps less well suited to text; GIFs are \u201ca visual language unto themselves, an emotive vocabulary made out of culture\u201d\u201d(Miltner and Highfield). One of the sites that has really taken advantage of this popular internet trend is Buzzfeed. They specialize in creating what are known as \u201clisticles\u201d, or articles centered around a list of certain points about a topic. Many of these contain GIFS for each point the Buzzfeed writer is trying to make. This one <\/b><\/a>in particular was created for Netflix crazed college students, comparing their emotions during finals with scenes from the popular TV show The Office<\/i>. This article shines when it comes to audience identification, since the emotions taken by the show\u2019s characters accurately depict \u201cour\u201d emotions as students during the scenarios listed. For example, situations include \u201cwhen you read the first question of a test and struggle\u201d(Pentak) or \u201cwhen you thought you aced your test\u201d (Pentak). Each scenario is accompanied by a GIF featuring a character or more from the show.<\/p>\n

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