Well, the animations in this thread are already pretty annoying. I hope you reconsider to use animations only rarely and wisely.
There's likely a good reason why there are few animations, at least in most of the threads I visit and read. It's often not very funny, just annoying. You don't want to promote eye cancer, do you? Joke aside, if I spot an user who irritates with animations or overuses them, this user quickly earns a spot on my ignore list.
If people love gifs, meme, funny things, they can join social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tiktok. They can get a lot of funny things but side effect is harm for your eyesight, distraction your focus on the main flow of discussion and more.
This forum is for discussion, and it's mainly in texts, not in graphics or animated gif.
We actually should not worry so much about how things are used in the forum because everything is vulnerable to misuse;
- Talk about image, people can dump annoying images with width and height dimensions.
- Colours could be abused also. I have seen people who love painting all their texts in colours or bolds
But gif is the less and unlikely abuse I have seen so far in the forum.
It's probably because limited people know how to make gif and upload it for ready use in the forum. It's more easier to use colors for texts, upload graphics and attach them in posts.
gif files are less common used and people will have to created it by themselves or get it from other sources, but size limitation is a barrier for them so that they can give up.
