Random Talk

[Polident]

I miss gifs, I like gifs

I like gifs partly because they're usually small and can sit inline with other things and don't have audio or maximize on your screen or anything

it feels like there was a period 15 years ago where it was so easy to find a gif of anything you wanted, and they were all labeled senorgif or 4gifs in the corner

over time whatever sites used to host all the gifs have rotted and you can barely find what you want anymore

at some point imgur mass converted many of their old gifs into webms or webps or some dumb video type format with a play button which doesn't embed most places and is harder to send to people in chat apps

the site yarn has somewhat revitalized the gif industry, with all kinds of movie quotes and scenes you can find with a quick google search, I think they're being made automatically somehow?

...except the problem is, somehow every single one of them encompasses the thing you want in the gif, plus like 3 frames from a different shot, so it's jarring and shitty

Old gifs were crafted. Optimized. Finding the balance of cropping, deleting frames, and compression. Or doing so for impact. 

Sometimes I still see gifs I made 10 or 15 years ago being used on random forums or twitter.