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Gfycat is shutting down on September 1st.
Time to save all your Gfycat GIFs. The Snap, inc.-owned GIF-repository site updated its homepage on June 30th with a message saying it would be closing up shop (via Hacker News):
The Gfycat service is being discontinued. Please save or delete your Gfycat content by visiting https://www.gfycat.com and logging in to your account. After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted from gfycat.com
Snap’s acquisition of Gfycat was a sticking point last year when UK regulators reviewed a decision to force Meta to sell similar site Giphy after determining Meta wasn’t properly informed of the Snap’s pruchase. Meta had to sell it in the end.
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