So there was a set of movie gifs I almost rebageled – until I realized they had put a © symbol in the text and (as is more usual) put their url in the gif.

Really? You’re copyrighting someone else’s work. That whole, what, 5 minutes it took you to make 3 gifs totally gives you ownership to that pirated clip of a major motion picture. I don’t think you know what © really means. Dumbass