--- description: Watch President Barack Obama on a skateboard title: This GIF Won 2014's GIF of the Year image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b9cef4c7fc670a1/69878311e20a875fe6a85828/465683960-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=828&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This GIF Won 2014's GIF of the Year by [Drew Mackie / People](/author/people/) ## Drew Mackie / People Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 10, 2015 8:59 PM CUT  U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the National League of Cities annual Congressional City Conference in Washington on March 9, 2015. U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the National League of Cities annual Congressional City Conference in Washington on March 9, 2015.Pool—Getty Images by [Drew Mackie / People](/author/people/) ## Drew Mackie / People Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 10, 2015 8:59 PM CUT We continue to live in a world of GIFs. We use them to talk and to mock and to react when words fail us. It may not surprise you to learn, then, that there is an awards show that celebrates GIFs specifically: the GIFYs. After accepting votes from the public for 2014’s best GIFs in categories such as “animals,” “cats” (in a class by themselves), “weird” and “art + design,” winners were announced March 5. The No. 1 gif, according to voters, featured President Barack Obama skateboarding. It debuted on an episode of _The Tonight Show_. For comparison’s sake, 2013’s GIF of the Year featured Oprah Winfrey unleashing a swarm of angry bees upon her studio audience. And because your day may be lacking in amusing GIFs, here also are the GIFs of the year in the categories of animal, cat, weird and art + design. See the rest of the winners on [the GIFYs’ official site](http://giphy.com/gifs/oprah-bees-dcubXtnbck0RG "undefined"). Nominees were submitted by the general public and also hand-picked by a panel of expert GIF-ologists. The awards show itself is presented by the Los Angeles branch of ad agency [Crispin Porter + Bogusky](http://www.cpbgroup.com/ "undefined"). _This_ [_article_](http://www.people.com/article/obama-skatebording-best-gif-2014 "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://www.people.com "undefined")_._ _Read next:_ [_TIME’s Eric Garner Video Wins World Press Photo Award_](http://time.com/3739455/eric-garner-world-press-photo-award/?iid=time%5Freadnext "undefined") [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3739732/gif-won-obama-skateboarding/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3739732/gif-won-obama-skateboarding/"},"headline":"This GIF Won 2014's GIF of the Year","datePublished":"2015-03-10T20:59:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:17:33.132Z","description":"Watch President Barack Obama on a skateboard","url":"https://time.com/3739732/gif-won-obama-skateboarding/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Barack Obama","Internet"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b9cef4c7fc670a1/69878311e20a875fe6a85828/465683960-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Drew Mackie / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b9cef4c7fc670a1/69878311e20a875fe6a85828/465683960-copy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the National League of Cities annual Congressional City Conference in Washington on March 9, 2015.","caption":"U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the National League of Cities annual Congressional City Conference in Washington on March 9, 2015.","creditText":"Pool—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3739732/gif-won-obama-skateboarding/","name":"This GIF Won 2014's GIF of the Year"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"30-Second Tech Trick: Make Animated GIFs from YouTube Videos","description":"I made one of me crying on a five-second loop for...reasons.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/Ee0VXzc0/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-09-03T19:00:33.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/Ee0VXzc0.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3739732/gif-won-obama-skateboarding/","duration":"PT30S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3739732/gif-won-obama-skateboarding/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```