GIF in Instagram post
Normally, you can as follows a GIF in Instagram post:
- First, you need to select the Instagram App to take a photo or Video to the Post.
- Then tap on the stickers Button in the upper-middle and can then embellish the photo/Video.
- One of the functions bears the name of "GIF" - tap on it.
- Now you can enter different search terms for the GIF. If you type in some snow, you can create your Video of snow and thus, a Winter-GIF.
- Alternatively, you can also pick out on the GIF platform Giphy, a GIF, and via the Instagram Button to share.

GIF in Instagram post (Screenshot Giphy)
Instagram prohibits GIFs
- Currently, it is unfortunately not possible to post a GIF in Instagram. After the User have used in Instagram racist GIFs from Giphy, took Instagram, the GIF-function offline.
- Giphy apologized for the racist GIF is not already deleted. It was a GIF with the saying "Nigger crime death counters", that would supposedly count the number of deadly crimes committed by African-Americans.
- Instagram wants to turn on the GIF feature, as soon as the racist GIFs disappeared at Giphy from all of the databases.
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