What caught my attention this week was the addition of gifs for stories on Instagram and how people have been using them. This feature came out this week and when I read about it, I thought it was pretty dumb but this is likely due to the fact that I have never used Instagram stories so this feature would be useless to me. What I noticed from how people I follow have been using this new function is that there has been a trend where people “post their aesthetic in gifs,” or another one where you “search your name and the first gif describes you,” or things of that nature. I haven’t really seen anyone use gifs on Instagram in another way yet and I’m curious as to if this is just the people I follow or if this trend is on most accounts right now. Another thing that I think is interesting is that Snapchat added “animated stickers and filters” last year. Instagram has taken a lot of ideas from Snapchat, like stories for example, and the timing of animated stickers and gifs makes me wonder whether it was a coincidence or not.