nip94 gives us the ability to build giphy on nostr itself. Anyone can publish a nip94 note of a gif, and clients can optionally publish these notes when you share a gif, so you can find gifs your friends use. gif services can also publish these notes.

nip94 is file metadata. It’s a perfect usecase for this.

The contents of file metadata is a description of the gif, search engines can use this to do gif searches.

You can also add tags to the metadata note, so you can search on the image/gif mime type and the “lol” tag to quickly find lol gifs.

We have everything we need to start building this.