Google kills Tenor GIF API, forcing changes at X, Discord, and more

Google is so famous for killing products that there's a whole virtual graveyard you can explore. Google's latest shutdown now has a headstone of its own. Effective today, Google has discontinued the Tenor API, which you may not be familiar with by name. You've probably used it, though. Tenor is a database of searchable GIFs, which used to serve animated images to sites like X/Twitter, Discord, and more. Now, it only serves Google—maybe the headstone is a bit premature. Like many Google products, Tenor started as an independent company. Google came along and bought Tenor in 2018, and it continu...