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What ever happened to WEBMs? Weren't they supposed to dethrone GIFs or something?
What do mean? It's used pretty extensively.
What people call GIFs these days are almost always not actually GIFs. GIFs will usually have high dithering due to it using an 8-bit color palette and an odd frame rate because the per-frame delay is specified in jiffies so you can't really get normal framerates (especially high ones).
What dethroned GIFs was the
<video>
HTML element. The video format doesn't matter.