This same logic could be used to argue that the government forced people to get the covid vaccine.

Have you ever used cheats on single player games when that was still a thing developers put in games? I did, it was fun. That’s why.

I remember a similar case regarding Windows shipping with IE. Whatever happened with that?

I tried it on these platforms:

• Twitter: it works
• Mastodon: it works
• tumblr: it works
• Reddit: it doesn’t loop, video must be at least 2 seconds in length, not allowed in comments
• Discord: not autoplay, no loop
• Lemmy: no video hosting

In that case the only people that can answer the question are the engineers from those platforms.

Yes, but if you tried to share that mp4 on other platforms it would be treated as a video, and that’s why gifs are still relevant.

mp4 is a video format, the key differences with animated images being autoplay, looping and maybe transparency.

Of all the formats you mentioned these are supported on popular platforms:

• Twitter: gif
• Discord: gif
• Mastodon: gif
• Reddit: gif, apng
• Tumblr: gif, webp
• Lemmy: gif, apng, webp

That’s why gifs are still a thing.

The fact that GIF is still a thing in 2023 is baffling

As opposed to what widely supported animated image format?

no offense

I really enjoyed the concept and story of In Time

If you liked the concept you may want to watch the 1987 short The Price of Life.

Your link talks about the element zapper, the icon that looks like a lightning. The instructions above talk about the element picker, the icon that looks like an eye dropper.

You can do that now with a heat gun and some very basic tools.

A heat gun is a specialized tool. That’s the problem.

I will not ask my fellow lemmy community members to blindly trust me on this.

Ok, I don’t trust you.