[ardf]

GIF is technologically inferior and therefore wanted by no one, and therefore, allows incredible freedom of expression

I suppose I'm being quite negative, but I don't see the logic in that statement. In what way does it allow more freedom? The biggest advantage I think gif has at the moment is familiarity.

[akavi]

The more constrained a medium is, the easier it is for an amateur to make something that's "good enough" to be shared publicly without shame. It's the creative equivalent of a blur filter on glamor shots. And wonderfully, you end up with creative output from people who often wouldn't dare to create otherwise.

See also: Vine, Minecraft, Twitter, Instagram (quite literally) etc.

[Grue3]

Because you can open any GIF in GIMP and edit it. Pixel by pixel. With videos you got what... Cinelerra? Blender? Try to get a normal person to use these.

[tbirdz]

You can dump all the frames from the video to images, edit the images in gimp, and combine the edited frames back together to make a new video.