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by billmalarky 4381 days ago
"Videos allow Twitter to leverage the browser. This means play, pause, and seek, but also cool things like slow-motion. Think your GIF is funny now? Wait til you see it in slow motion."

Gifs have built in slow motion, it's called waiting for the 10mb file to download frame by frame upon initial play-through.