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Re:Gifski: Optimized GIF Encoder by latexr on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @10:28AM (#40428927)
> Some websites use looping videos and call them GIFs

That’s exactly what they’re doing. Just used the web inspector on one of their GIFs. Imgur does the same thing.

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Re:Gifski: Optimized GIF Encoder by recursive on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @12:25PM (#40430546)
Not from here. Here's one I got from their front page. https://j.gifs.com/qjOKXp.gif

The content-type response header is image/gif.

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Re:Gifski: Optimized GIF Encoder by jonnybarnes on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @12:32PM (#40430617)
Interestingly you can change the `.gif` to `.mp4` and you get a video _with_ audio.
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