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joas
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Why are GIFs still a thing?!? I mean don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against short, audioless videos but why GIF?

GIF only provides a lossless per-frame compression so the performance sucks really bad. For example a 1 MB GIF converted to MP4 is only 100 KB.

So that's why they take longer to load and have so bad quality.

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    IMO they were dying some time back, but with improving bandwidth, and the rise of memes, it’s going to stay for quite a bit. Plus, for forever-looping animated icons, it’s be easier to have a couple of GIFs over a couple of autoload, autoplay, autoloop videos, that I can’t attach any hyperlinks to.

    But who knows. Those things might become possible down the road soon, but it will stay for quite a while still.
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