[_jomo]

When will they add support for long GIFs with sound? /s

There's a weird trend of taking full HD YouTube videos, converting them to soundless, bad quality GIFs and then upload them to twitter or imgur, where they're then encoded back to video. Quite often this goes without source to the original. I assume that people doing this just want to show the important content on the respective platform rather than sending a link (although twitter and reddit embed YouTube videos). Or is there another reason?

[schwap]

Viewing a gif or mp4 is much more lightweight on mobile than a youtube video.

[AndrewUnmuted]

YouTube regularly transcodes all uploaded content into several different varieties of MP4 container. If you're on iOS, then all videos you watch on YouTube are MP4s.

[schwap]

I don't mean lightweight in a technical sense, I mean lightweight in terms of user experience. To view a gif (or gif converted to mp4, webm, whatever) I know it's silent (don't have to worry about muting my phone), I don't have to load the youtube app or the bloated youtube site. All I do at the most is tap to play.

[Kiro]

When I'm on imgur I don't want to see stuff that requires me to turn off my music. I know the video I see there are tailored for soundless usage.

[LoSboccacc]

I would love to see a service that caption sounds in gifs. Not just talk, everything, you gif a video of a car starting and the caption goes 'wrrrrrrooooo'