None of that is the format, it sounds like your media player (or whatever js webshit reddit has implemented in their abominable redesign...) is just shit. "Meg

None of that is the format, it sounds like your media player (or whatever js webshit reddit has implemented in their abominable redesign...) is just shit. "Mega-fast" internet would benefit you more for gifs than it would for real video formats, on account of those gifs being larger. Why do you think reddit wants to serve you video files instead of gifs? They're not doing it to fuck with you, I promise. They do it because it saves them bandwidth, and therefore it saves you bandwidth too. The solution to your problems is not using an obsolete inefficient image format for video; rather the solution to your problems is getting software that isn't totally broken. Since your so skeptical, let's put some numbers to it: Here is a gif: https://0x0.st/zY8f.gif https://0x0.st/zY8f.gif It's a staggering[0] 3.5MB, on a 56kbps connection it would take you over eight minutes to download it. I uploaded this gif to imgur, who then converted it into this mp4: https://0x0.st/zY8O.mp4 https://0x0.st/zY8O.mp4 It's less than 700KB. On a 56kbps connection it would take you less than two minutes to download this. This is not an atypical example, an order of magnitude improvement is pretty typical when converting gif "videos" into real video formats. Eight minutes vs two minutes... you tell me, which is faster? The faster your internet connection gets the narrower the gap gets, which is opposite of the trend you're suggesting. These conversions benefit people with slow internet more than they benefit those with fast internet. [0] (For shits and giggles, I also encoded a VP9 webm with ffmpeg: https://0x0.st/zY8v.webm https://0x0.st/zY8v.webm From what I understand you cannot play this on your iphone (because Apple), but it's less than a tenth the size of the original gif and looks identical to my eye.)