GIFs can be generated in such a way that they don’t loop. Most are not. Therefore, a once-only gif can be used to mess with people’s heads since no one is accustomed to it and most don’t know it’s an option.
Another recent example of this that was briefly popular on lemmy is a webcomic that showed a crowd scene featuring Waldo (or Wally if that’s your way), then removing him while keeping everything else identical.
Oh interesting. On my phone, when I wrote that, it was displaying as a static image. But on my desktop now it works.
Still, this raises more questions. wtf?
GIFs can be generated in such a way that they don’t loop. Most are not. Therefore, a once-only gif can be used to mess with people’s heads since no one is accustomed to it and most don’t know it’s an option.
Another recent example of this that was briefly popular on lemmy is a webcomic that showed a crowd scene featuring Waldo (or Wally if that’s your way), then removing him while keeping everything else identical.
They definitely can, but can WEBPs? Anyway, this particular webp definitely doesn’t do that.
I don’t know anything about webp’s, but it does do exactly that for me. Maybe it’s a client thing?
Oh weird. All sorts of weird inconsistent behaviour going on depending on client.
Jerboa shows a static image. Web browsers loop indefinitely. And something else just plays once…
Indeed, I think each developer has their own idea of how things should be done. Sometimes it’s a negative, sometimes a positive.
But FWIW, I’m on Connect and rarely have issues with images other than when they’re in spoilers.
lol love it