[quote]"ecdce":/users/276786 said: The only reason I can think of for this being a video is so that people can't save it from within the twitter mobile app. [/quote] On super technical level, GIF is just an image format like JPG or PNG and it was only lossless format that was useable online in the 90's, so you can, even now, just save image as GIF, it does not have to be animated. Problem is that all these platforms assume that GIFs are animated and people assume that GIF is soundless animation that loops. Recent trend on 𝕏 has been that every single image has a button to edit it with Grok, this button doesn't show up on videos. Considering this artists bio says [i]"❌FUCK AI❌"[/i], yet they refuse to leave the platform where even videos are used for Grok training, could be the case. E: Yeap, was right, this seems to be the new "one simple trick" for people still using 𝕏 to disable the "edit image" button. Being here for fucking decade and thinking that internet speeds getting faster, new sites competing and resolutions being high even on phones we finally get to everything being PNG and improvement moving forward. Fucking, nope, now we get fucking 90's GIF fileformatted images, converted to low res MP4 files. Thanks Elon!

The only reason I can think of for this being a video is so that people can't save it from within the twitter mobile app.