This is a really annoying trend in blogging / internet writing recently. It's very common now for even technical articles (like this one) to have multiple irrelevant movie/TV gifs embedded, almost like the author is replying with reaction gifs to their own writing.

Not only is it a bunch of irrelevant content that makes reading the actual text more annoying because you've got at least one short video looping on your screen the whole time, it also increases the data usage massively. This article transfers over 70MB, with over 50MB of that being from the gifs.

What do you expect when everyone and their dog is pretending to be quirky and "cool".

Yeah, unfortunately reader mode on firefox cuts out the relevant screen shots as well.

Yes. An otherwise well-written and informative article, but those gifs just kill me.

Author here. Try this: document.querySelectorAll('img[src$="gif"]').forEach(_ => _.parentNode.parentNode.remove())

Now you know what HN thinks of your detailed and laborious $300,000 review. We hate the GIFs.

Doesn't really work because the gifs lazy-load as you scroll down. So you'd either have to run it repeatedly, or scroll through the whole post first and then do it.

It's hard to know if there's a lot of people wanting text only or if they're just very vocal. Either way I'll publish my next review in two versions; one with memes and one without. I appreciate you taking the time to tell me