> Technical changes compounded the problem. The same reasons why the gif died the first time round hadn’t gone away: the technology produces large files with po

> Technical changes compounded the problem. The same reasons why the gif died the first time round hadn’t gone away: the technology produces large files with poor image quality. tfw no webm? To me the most annoying thing about gif's is their short length on repeat. The jarring nature of a one second pixelated video repeated is simply not something I want on my screen, this is most pronounced on old.reddit.com where the text based comments vibe is interspersed with some shitty reaction image inlined from people posting through new.reddit.com, I don't believe you can turn it off either.