Gfycat.com shuts down on September 1 and all Gifs will be taken down

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Gfycat.com shuts down on September 1 and all Gifs will be taken down - gHacks Tech News
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Gfycat had the excellent business model of hosting a load of high bandwidth content and not making any money from anyone

You forgot the excellent idea of being highly integratable to the point end users don't even know the gifs they're seeing are from gfycat

Really though. On Reddit at least, how often did you actually go to gfycat instead of just viewing on Reddit's webpage or a third party app?