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The Morning GIF: High five

Whatever you do, don't leave Tony Stark hanging.

 

Lorraine Murphy

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Posted on Jul 27, 2012   Updated on Jun 2, 2021, 1:49 pm CDT

Here at the Daily Dot, we swap GIF images with each other every morning. Now we’re looping you in. In the Morning GIF, we feature a popular—or just plain cool—GIF we found on Reddit, Canvas, or elsewhere on the Internet.

Whatever hegemony the feline may claim, cats, however beloved of the interwebs, cannot claim to be the greatest, most powerful iteration of social media.

That’s left for the fans.

Fandom, as has been described in these pages time after time, is one of the most powerful forces online. And today’s is the consummate fandom: Avengers fans cannot be gainsaid; they cannot be hushed up. They can only be acknowledged.

Go ahead, resist. Try. When Iron Man calls, something primal within us answers. Hands up, we, along with the 183 notaries, are just his playthings. High five.

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*First Published: Jul 27, 2012, 7:36 am CDT