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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The same purpose as a PNG or JPEG?

You know that GIF is not specifically a format for animations, right? It’s just a lossless image format.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but it's almost always used for animations. Seeing one that's not animated just feels... weird.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Now, that’s just a recent development. 20 years ago it was a common format for images on the interwebs.