> All those factors combined caused GIFs to stick around for a long time. Nowadays, there are too many standards, I wouldn't even know which format to use inste

> All those factors combined caused GIFs to stick around for a long time. Nowadays, there are too many standards, I wouldn't even know which format to use instead of GIF; is it AV1, OGG, WEBM, MP4? For an alternative to GIF, the closest web standards are animated WebP or WebM. If you've tried them, the filesizes are much better than GIF. Unfortunately support on Safari is slow on rolling out [1] [2]. And using MP4 videos instead will never be a web standard since they are proprietary formats [1]: https://caniuse.com/webm https://caniuse.com/webm [2]: https://caniuse.com/webp https://caniuse.com/webp