“It’s actually pronounced ‘jaslight’, and you’ve been saying it wrong this whole time”

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Wikipedia: Gaslighting
Gaslighting is the manipulation of someone into questioning their perception of reality. The term derives from the 1944 film Gaslight and became popular in the mid-2010s.
 
Wikipedia: GIF
The Graphics Interchange Format(GIF; /ɡɪf/ GHIF or /dʒɪf/ JIF, see § Pronunciation) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on June 15, 1987.
   
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It’s actually pronounced “jaslight”, and you’ve been saying it wrong this whole time.
7:20 AM · Aug 20, 2026