The reason Imgur is doing what they're doing makes sense (downloading animated GIFs is an absurd waste of bandwidth when people just want to see really short lo

The reason Imgur is doing what they're doing makes sense (downloading animated GIFs is an absurd waste of bandwidth when people just want to see really short low-quality videos in their browsers). The way they're going about it and the way they're marketing the decision is arguably kinda silly. But the monocle-popping that is occurring in this thread is an order of magnitude sillier than anything Imgur is doing. This is really not worthy of the volume or intensity of the hand-wringing that is occurring in this thread. This is the type of news that you either ignore completely, or skim, nod, and move on. At worst it deserves some exaggerated eye rolling or a sarcastic joke to a cow-orker during lunch.