View post on The Deal with High-Quality GIFsĪctually, there’s a whole Reddit community ( r/HighQualityGIFs) devoted to the subject. Without needing to send a YouTube link, you can easily embed a perfectly-timed movie reference or reaction into your conversations. And since they get shared so often, the same video gets compressed and looks worse each time it gets saved and re-uploaded.īasically, most GIFs get the job done. It’s hard to make a series of moving images about the same file size as just one static image, like a JPEG. Most GIFs look small and low resolution, like the one above. For as widespread as GIFs have become, they, unlike videos or images, usually look pretty outdated. You’ll probably get teased less if you say it with the hard G and not like the peanut butter brand.Īnyway. So it really depends if you’re a prescriptive or descriptive linguist.

You might also ask: is it “jif” or “gif” with a hard G sound? The founder says “jif”. That coffee mug animation? We regret to inform you it was groundbreaking at one point in time. Just take a look at the miraculously-still-maintained Bob Dole 1996 campaign website.

With only 256 colors, they’re designed to be efficient, small files, best suited for short clips with pretty similar frames.

You might ask: why do GIFs always look pixelated and less colorful than videos? Well, the file format existed back when you needed to unplug your home phone to use the internet.

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