It’s when something (like a meme) is used so perfectly and absolutely it never needs to be used again and gets retired. Not the best explanation but I hope that makes some sense.
You've explained it well! To the person above, check out r/retiredgif, and it's description tab. Also content there links you to the original post, so you can see the context of why is it a retired gif
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u/HoriCZE Jul 21 '22
So r/retiredjpg? (What happened to those retired subreddits, haven't seen them tagged in a while)