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The Best Animated GIFs Of August, As Explained Through Helpful Diagrams

With only a few seconds of video and no sound, animated GIFs can be difficult to understand. So in this month’s installment, we’ve provided a diagram to help explain each GIF. We hope you find them helpful!

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Today, we present the Animated GIFs of August 2011. These GIFs demonstrate a down-tick in players being hit in the groin, but there has been a dramatic increase in players doing dumb things and looking confused. It is my sincere hope that the abundance of the latter will excuse the paucity of the former. Here is a GIF of a guy being frightened by an earthquake.

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GIFs, admittedly, tend to be scarce in the context department, and people would generally rather look at pictures than read words. That’s why I’ve taken the liberty of creating a helpful diagram, chart, or graph for each one. I hope you find them helpful, and I hope all this mess doesn’t reduce your web browser to cinders.

Enjoy!

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