• example@reddthat.comM
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    1 year ago

    those aren’t actually gifs.
    they’re frequently webms.

    various people don’t care or don’t know the difference between media formats though, so they’ll just call anything remotely gif-like a gif.

    • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It doesn’t help that the shorthand for moving picture sequence is gif. I remember when internet pictures were commonly called jpegs no matter the format. I don’t know what else people should use