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Member2016.. not using WEBM...
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JanitorWas about to say that. There was also WebM uploaded so I added it as parent post.
Because this has lower frame rate and whopping over 50x larger filesize of 52 MB! Even took my connection a minute to load up fully.
Gif wasn't ever meant to contain full HD material (1920x1080 gif lol) and it basically can't because of color space limitations. Of course I can't tell anyone to stop this and site allows this large files, but I assure you that far more people will be happy with ~10 MB file with under 1000px dimensions instead of this.
You can optimize the gif as well if it doesn't ruin the artistic vision by disabling camera sway, because less differences between frames, means MUCH lower filesize as well and at that point mobile users (who can't see WebM for some silly reason) will also thank you. Then just keep the sway on video formats, maybe even give tiny bit boost to bitrate.
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