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Is a .GIF an image, a video, or something in between? 🤔 (yiffit.net)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Technically .gif is a file extension, GIF file is simply a bitmap image format.

Sure, they can contain one frame and look like a static image, You can insert frames from a movie into them so they can appear as a silent video. Half seriously, they are glorified image slideshows with option to contain just a single slide.

So.. they land somewhere between images and animations or — if you want to be precise — images with option to be animated.