(X) Doubt.

All that matters is loyalty. They may vote in a certain manner for the majority of cases, but what matters are the critical cases of interest to their overlords.

Translation: If we can’t track you, you’re of no interest to us.

All English is based on etymology which is why it’s such a hard language to learn. Looking at how a word is spelled always takes second place to where it comes from.

GIF was pronounced with soft g since it came out, back in the 80s/90s when it was shared on AOL and CompuServe. Year, decades, later it came back into social media with Reddit and Twitter, and people pronounced it based on what it looked like it would sound like, which is most similar to hard g like gift.

That doesn’t mean GIF never had a soft g. It just shows how old you are or when you discovered it when you use the hard g.

Say gigantic. Now what you’re going to do next is stop with your ANTICs and enunciate the gig the same way.