If you wish to express yourself better online these days, then just using text won’t work at all.
Without a doubt, using an image can enhance that message especially if you’re attempting to convey a witty and knowledgeable one.
Probably, the best option of the lot is the animated GIF that you can get from a number of online repositories or create with just as many tools that are available.
Having said that, here are 2 simple ways to find or create the most appropriate animated GIF:
#1: YouTube
If you’re looking to create a GIF with a new custom overlay, then you can use YouTube’s new GIF creation tool. That said, this feature is only offered only for a few videos but if you are looking to make animated GIFs from channels such as Vsauce, Epic Rap Battles of History and the PBS Idea Channel to name a few, then YouTube is what you should use. For everything else Imgur’s video-to-GIF tool would be ideal for videos from other sites as well.
#2: Hulu
Hulu has started a Tumblr site called “The Perfect GIF” that you can use to get GIFs from its TV show collection. Some examples of GIFs have been taken from Castle, Star Trek, Ugly Betty and Modern Family and so on and so forth. You can easily find the GIFs you like by using hashtags such as #fail, #gross and #LOL among several others. What it doesn’t have on offer are tools to add text to the images.