When I hear someone mispronounce gif as jif, I tend to know exactly what type of person they are.

On the slim chance you're arguing in good faith and are just unaware. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunciation_of_GIF

A number of analysis have been done on this subject. Polling showed that more people pronounce with a hard g. Most dictionaries list a hard g as the primary pronunciation. More words that begin with gi use the hard g.

It's the children who are wrong, all three billion of them. The only ones who are right are me and my friends. We don't have any justification or valid argument, we're just right because we say we are.

That's you. That's what you sound like.