Google discontinues Tenor GIF API, cutting off X, Discord, and other platforms
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Ryan Whitwam
4h ago· 2 min readenNews
Summary
Google has discontinued the Tenor GIF API, which previously served animated images to platforms like X/Twitter and Discord. While Tenor still works within Google's own apps, third-party platforms must now find alternative GIF services. This marks another addition to Google's history of killing products.
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bskyGoogle discontinues Tenor GIF API, cutting off X, Discord, and other platformsarstechnica.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledGoogle is so famous for killing products that there's a whole virtual graveyard you can explore.
Effective today, Google has discontinued the Tenor API, which you may not be familiar with by name.
Now, it only serves Google—maybe the headstone is a bit premature.
Tenor still connects to Google apps, but other platforms must look elsewhere for GIFs.
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