A bit off-topic, but why do people still use the GIF format? The "example-hn.gif" is 8.5MB, for 45 seconds of pretty stuttery video. I converted it to a similar looking VP9 video, and it was only 1.5MB, and with AV1 I got it down to 550KB with basically lossless quality.
from what I have noticed - many of the "video instead of gif" sites / apps disable (right click-save , long press-save) saving.. so many users prefer and use gifs because they are easy to save and share and many times the video version is impossible.
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A bit off-topic, but why do people still use the GIF format? The "example-hn.gif" is 8.5MB, for 45 seconds of pretty stuttery video. I converted it to a similar looking VP9 video, and it was only 1.5MB, and with AV1 I got it down to 550KB with basically lossless quality.
from what I have noticed - many of the "video instead of gif" sites / apps disable (right click-save , long press-save) saving.. so many users prefer and use gifs because they are easy to save and share and many times the video version is impossible.