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by HedgeGriffon 1438 days ago
Umm.. not compression artifacts. GIF uses lossless LZW. Maybe color palette artifacts since GIFs are usually palettized and not true color (although with a tortured use of local color tables they can even be true color)
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This is the nitpick we all come here for :)

Choosing a limited palette in order to save bytes, some might say is compression. If said compression hurts the image quality, some might call that "compression artifacts".

The point stands, GIF was a poor choice for the format here.