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		Someone on July 10, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Visualizing and Understanding JPEG Format Do you? I thought many ‘animated GIFs’ aren’t GIF files anymore. Twitter, for example, serves MP4 files (https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/19/gasp-twitter-gifs-arent-ac...)

ourcat on July 10, 2020 [–]

As well as the compression, I think this also had a lot to do with native mobile app support, where MPEG4 was far easier to deal with than animated GIFs.

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