By separating laughter from humor, the laugh-loop GIF allows us to see laughter on its own, separate from the activities of human affect that produce it. Laughing as a noun rather than a verb.

How do you build a GIF that takes 1,000 years to loop? Use 48,140,288 frames that tick forward on a 10-minute interval. That's what artists Juha van Ingen and Janne Särkelä have done.