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those aren't actually gifs.
they're frequently webms.
various people don't care or don't know the difference between media formats though, so they'll just call anything remotely gif-like a gif.
It doesn’t help that the shorthand for moving picture sequence is gif. I remember when internet pictures were commonly called jpegs no matter the format. I don’t know what else people should use