This is the gif I have just recently made myself. I saw that a lot of whales, dolphins and minnows alike used personalized gifs and I immediately wanted one as well. I did some reseach and found pixteller.com. It's easy and free.
What I did was started with the text @patriot on a blue background. Then I cloned the page and added a picture. Then I repeated until everything there. Next I went to my designs, hovered over my project and selected the gif icon. It downloaded and then I put it into steemit.
I will most likely put this on the bottom of every Steemit post. Tomorrow you will see this in action in my post about the Jedi Plo Koon.
Thanks for reading and may the force be with you!