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GIF are a great example of a medium that succeeded specifically DUE to it's shortcoming/constraints. In fact most "gifs" on highly visited sites are mp4 videos
by aub3bhat 9y ago
GIF are a great example of a medium that succeeded specifically DUE to it's shortcoming/constraints. In fact most "gifs" on highly visited sites are mp4 videos (which can have audio and longer length). But they pretend to be gif in order to convey original set of affordances of gif format.
- abhi3188 9y agothat's exactly what I'm doing.. it records an mp4 but I'm using the term GIF to denote a short looping audioless animation