About
Album Cover Gifs / Animated Album Covers are a fanart meme which pertain to making GIF versions of album covers.
Origin
The first ever known instance of this meme was done by the band R.E.M. as part of promoting their “greatest hits” album, Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage 1982–2011[1].
Spread
There have been blogs made with the intent of making gif versions of album covers, such as jbetcom’s music[2] and animatedalbums[3], as well as several articles about the meme[4][5][6], as well as a sub-reddit created for it[7].
Examples
Search Interest
Not Applicable
External References
[1]Consequence of Sound – R.E.M. unveils first-ever GIF album cover
[2]Tumblr – jbetcom’s music[NSFW]
[3]Tumblr – animatedalbums[NSFW]
[4]Metal Sucks – These Animated .GIF Metal Album Covers are Mesmerizing[NSFW]
[5]Alternative Press – Famous album covers brought to life as animated GIFs[NSFW]
[6]Crave Online – 15 Awesome Animated Album Covers Gifs[NSFW]
[8]Tumblr – Search Results for album cover gif[NSFW]