[flashdance]

You're an all-star. Thanks for this, the GIFS took up half my screen.

[nkozyra]

Do people enjoy reading in this format? Beyond being a bit passé at this point, are these things ever even amusing. I know they interrupted the flow of an interesting story here, but why are people still doing this?

[rnhmjoj]

Judging by the number of commenters here complaining or providing the cleared text this format has definitely got old.

[icebraining]

Complainers always make more noise. I personally find it cute, a bit like listening in person to a very expressive story teller.

I sympathize with the critics, by the way - I have gripes with plenty of online content, even if not with this one. A button to enable the GIFs would probably be best for everyone.

[excalibur]

I don't know about amusing, but Rashida Jones is cute, and I did not mind having her on my screen.

[LeifCarrotson]

And they took up more than 10 MB of data. The text itself is less than 10 kB!