r/dankmemes Oct 05 '24

I am probably an intellectual or something Save me some time brother

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u/Wajana Oct 05 '24

Nonono, he's right I love gifs as much as the next person, but god fucking damn is it a god awful file format

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u/xander012 OC Memer Oct 05 '24

It's just got low colour depth but otherwise its fine

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u/Wajana Oct 05 '24

It's heavy as shit

Try converting a video to a gif. It gains gif artifacts and like thrice the file size

Gif is abhorrent at best

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u/mossycode Oct 05 '24

probably because it wasnt even made to be widely used for videos

it was originally just an image format