Originally posted by Kitt

I've seen some of the Hive use it in Base a couple times, actually. I also really liked that one Bey GIF you used a lot in the beginning here in this thread. Oh yeah, this one, lemme save it. So back to this gif: Initially, I didn't really like it as much. I felt as though it was a bit bland— for what was going on in the gif to be used as a reaction. But then after a few days of letting it sit and seeing it a few times, I caught on to a bit of it's effectiveness. Luckily for you, Beyoncé reaction gifs are my favorite the superior choice (see: me and Edge's gif entries), so this goes in the folder too.

Originally posted by Katie

Gif: 8
Examples: 8
Usability 9

Your first example killed me. I don't think I've laughed that hard in a while. The rest of the examples were just 'meh' posts but that's okay.

Originally posted by EdgeOfAddiction

Hated it the least.

Originally posted by DripDrip

Your entries always remind me of a Sunday stroll through the park, really relaxed, finest, and smooth. There isn't a need to stand out with you, it always comes naturally. Your continued use of your brand is smart. You have an obvious understanding of who you are as a member, and I think your Gif. is one of the most polished and usable of the bunch. The subtle reaction Gifs. where they're mouthing something are always fun to use and always hit off (Latoyta, Hilary, etc.) So your Gif. was a smart choice.

I don't have much critique on anything else, you know what you're doing, BUT I would say loosen up a bit. Your examples weren't really the funniest or most unique, this is such a fun challenge where you can be a little zany and fun and I didn't really see you go there.

Originally posted by Matty

Shady, Informative, Classy… I see the classy, but I find Beyonce very classy [waits for Janice/Edge to interrupt]. I just feel like, I have seen this gif before. Maybe in a whole complete different version, but I just feel “Déjà Vu” with it. Nevertheless, I do see some the shady aspect to it and it is very 1-2-3 kind of gif ATRL has. I just wish there was more sass with the class, okay Pizza Hut? Love the layout per usual though.

Originally posted by Kitt

Here's the thing: I don't think it works as a reaction gif, because I'd be too busy wondering what was going on in it. I know where it's from, even before I saw you provided the video but still felt the same way. Clever use of making an old post your entry though

Originally posted by Katie

Gif: 7
Examples: 8
Usability 8

YAS, have no fear of EdgeofProstitution. Pay it complete dust when in threads. Your examples were pretty good and I could see the gif being used. I kinda wish it was a little longer but hey, don't we all.

Originally posted by EdgeOfAddiction

"You're trying way too hard and it needs to stop."

Originally posted by DripDrip

Your Gif is outlandish, fun, and dramatic. Its a common reaction of distaste and disapproval, and yours was one of my favorite of the bunch. The size was good, length was short, but in this case it worked perfectly. I'm sure ATRL would pick this up in no time and would be used often. The examples fell a little on the stale and boring side however, but so were everyone else's so

Presentation wise, I feel like with you, less is more. Similarly to your previous entry with the male strip club flyer, it gets a bit middle school science project feels. Sometimes the overbearing colors and the big letters and vibrancy takes away from the entry and it makes it appear sloppy. The banners were giving me slight Windows 98 Word Art feelings. Especially with a challenge like this where presentation is not even needed, if you have it, then you better have it good. Yours sadly, didn't do that.

Originally posted by Matty

Those banners, just a bit too bulky for my taste with this kind of layout. As for your gif, it’s not all relatively new, we have had the ‘oh **** let me leave’ kind of gifs before. It works an all, but out of all these gifs it’s one that doesn’t really stand out from the rest. Also, the shakiness of the gif… I know you can’t control it, but it bothers me. It makes it lose quality. Now let me run on to the next comment.

Originally posted by Kitt

A bit overdramatic for my tastes. ~If I were to use it, it'd probably be in a once in a blue moon occurrence since nothing here gets that much of a emotional reaction out of me lately

Originally posted by Katie

Gif: 9
Examples: 8
Usability: 10
Use of check marks: ✔

I don't know, I kinda love this gif. I'm all for the overreaction gifs, personally. Some of your examples were trying a little too hard.

Originally posted by EdgeOfAddiction

Seems like you switched brands with Citrus.

Originally posted by DripDrip

I never like list in entries, I don't know why it feels to business formal to me
The first part of your entry felt mostly like filler, and thank God you added those last two examples because scrolling down through your examples I had a blank face the entire time. The Gif, was a bit to big for my taste, it could have been cropped, or shrunk down a few sizes. Big Gifs. usually end up way to distracting, and for all the wrong reasons, and they're very hard to catch on.

Originally posted by Matty

First off, the layout is a mess, I’m sorry. You’ve got what it exemplifies on the left, some examples on the right, an introduction on the bottom, and more examples at the bottom. I felt like things needed to be more consistent and in a different order. As for the gif, it is nice. To me it does fit each of your descriptions, but I feel like in order to really get that slayed or dead aspect, the gif should have stopped before he got up. It also reminds me of the short lived Glozell cinnamon challenge gif that was circulating around. All-in-all, it works, just wanted more. Now hold on I gotta cough up some phlegm.

Originally posted by Kitt

First off, I love this, but it needs to be smaller. I'm not here for using imgzoom everytime. Secondly, a nice feat to submit something as good as this that you created yourself. I thought it was taken from a tumblr photoset at first. And I am dying at the background image of the header being the girl mid-snatch and wig on the ground! And to be honest, out of all the GIF's submitted this round, realistically, this is the one I'd use myself. Probably moreso as a reaction gif to other posts. The GIF was effective enough to stand on it's own here and you didn't use fluff by adding more text and letting the examples speak for themselves. Good job; now it'd just be great if you could snatch the top callout after coming back.

Originally posted by Katie

Gif: 8
Examples: 7
Usability 9

Very courageous to use an avatar sized gif. It's got what ATRL loves most: queens and lacefronts. I think it would have been better if none of your posts actually contained the word "snatch." It'd be more implied which makes it look less try hard. But that's just my opinion. Also, welcome back!

Originally posted by EdgeOfAddiction

Meh.

Originally posted by DripDrip

Welcome Back Onika

A Gif. we've seen used many times and in different situations, its not the most versatile of the bunch however. I think if you had used a mix reaction of your own written post, and post you found around the forum it would have had a more impact on me, because the examples didn't really show off the Gif. that well. They were mostly stale and very boring generic post.

Originally posted by Matty

Onika, I like you and all, and you did really well during the extremely short lived and anti-climatic comeback series, but this entry… like I can’t judge it. Snatching gifs have been around for so long and there have been many versions of it. The two that come to mind is of the drag queen miss universe type competition gif where the girl gets her wig snatched off by another contestant, and the one of the women working at a convenience store and her wig got snatched off by someone. They are still used, don’t get me wrong, but it’s nothing new and don’t see people rushing off to use it. I’m sorry, I have to snatch your wig now.

Originally posted by Kitt

Oh my god, it's not the same without the music And I'm not scoring off of this, but you're entry is bothering me so much that it's not centered. Oh WAIT! It gets centered once I click the collapse button ljrdnlkjgf The gif is also a bit on the dark side. I mean, I scroll past it like 20 times because it's not catching my eye at first. I know I'd spam it for extremely celebratory reasons though, like my most anticipated album leaking or punching theREALslimSHADY out of a game via the strength of my Soul Sisters coming together. Nice touch on the custom posts as well.

Originally posted by Katie

Gif: 9
Examples: 8
Usability: 10

This was probably my favourite gif. It's a grower since it's not one of the best upon first look. You've gotta appreciate the subtly of it. It's a very creative way to celebrate.

Originally posted by EdgeOfAddiction

The fade out transitions saved it.

Originally posted by DripDrip

The amount of times I kept looking for yours

Yours was one of the few entries where the examples provided actually made me laugh. Especially the Adele one

The sizing is perfect for the gif. not to big, not to small, and it fits in nicely with the post. Although aren't celebratory and praise sort of similar . Its pretty versatile for what it is. It fit mostly with the three types of common post on ATRL which is where its usability would soar. The presentation is clean, precise, and you get to the point. You were the only one that actually had no extra fluff in your entry and let the Gif. talk for itself, I think. Very observant .

Originally posted by Matty

How is your ratchet example ratchet? It’s more like another praise example. Also, celebratory and praise are somewhat the same thing example wise. It has shady qualities, it has humour factor, but yet again it doesn’t bring something new. I remember there used to be a gif very similar to this one that was widely used and very popular. It’s also quite long too, the interest in the gif could be lost very quickly. That’s all I have to say, I’m late for church now…

Originally posted by Kitt

So it's like gaycat in gif form. The introductory and concluding description is gold, btw, which is funny because usually Matty prohibits using too much wording outside of examples for this challenge... yet it's what saved yours for me. You also did a decent job presenting posts that fit well with each other— post and gif. Not to mention its efficiency by itself.

Originally posted by Katie

Gif: 10
Examples: 10
Usability: 9
DripDrip imitation:-2
Tab penalty: -2

There can be only one Drip. This would be like someone other than me using a Barbie gif. Or someone other than Edge using a PSA for herpes awareness. Your identity was lost. Also, what did I say about tabs? Your actual gif and examples were amazing, though.

Originally posted by EdgeOfAddiction

Those links? Not cute.

Originally posted by DripDrip

See what I said about Funky and big Gifs

However, reading through your entry, it kind of gave life to your Gif. , because when I first saw it I wasn't really impressed. It was too short, to big, and I thought it could have only been used in certain situations, but you sort of proved me wrong (sort of). The size of it is way to unappealing I think of all the girls that had extra writing in their entries yours was the most funny, and you stuck to your brand was good, but overall I think there should have been some tweaking done, like Ru told Jade. Edit

Originally posted by Matty

I honestly think that your gif and entry is the strongest out of the bunch. First, you are sticking with that character as a source of inspiration for you. Second, you are sticking with your brand which is humour and I see a lot of that in your entry. Lastly, the gif just works for a lot of things. Every time I view it the phrase “How yew doin” comes in my mind. While I like your gif and entry, it’s far from perfect. There is a lot of text and the banner and gif are a bit large. Things could have been formatted a bit better, nothing too big, but sometimes less is more. Werq bitch.

Originally posted by Kitt

I don't get it

Maybe it's because I have the slightest clue who Kenya Moore is or what she does, besides being a character on one one of the Housewives show, but I don't see how this works in any of the examples you gave. I do see the sophisticated shadiness in it, but I just didn't feel the effectiveness with the posts. It feels as if the gif was just tacked on for randoms sake.

Originally posted by Katie

Gif: 7
Examples: 10
Usability: 8
Tab penalty: -2

The gif goes kinda fast. I wish it was slower, or longer, but that's for Edge to discuss.

Originally posted by EdgeOfAddiction

Getting lost in the shuffle.

Originally posted by DripDrip

To big and to short, you're kind of on the same page as Cirtus here, expect with his, he made his work for him. I was hoping when I would open the examples it'd change my mind, but it didn't do that exactly. I kind of got lost here.

Originally posted by Matty

Where’s my Britney “I don’t get it” gif. Your gif is just way too fast to get any kind of emotion, like I do not see this sophistication or confidence that you speak of that this gif shows. A better version of the gif is something that Jeremy/Drip provided. It’s a bit longer, but you get more emotion and more impact. What could have been just wasn’t presented in this gif. I liked your layout though, very sophisticated.

Originally posted by Remember

I lost. Bai gorls

Originally posted by CBXC

Anddddd I'm out.

Originally posted by Katie

Y'all are safe. I'm pretty sure Retro is the one that's leaving.