I think I have seen that about GIFs in general, regardless of size. We're in the 2020s for JavaScript, people are fine with that slowing everything down, but suddenly if you use GIFs you have to pretend that we're back in 90s internet speeds.

900 KB would be a pretty big one, so you wouldn't want too many of those on every page (though you would need fucking 50 of them to get even close to the size of a bunch of websites), but it's fine. It's just like any other image, you don't want a ton of gigantic PNGs in your website either.

My mentality is that anything that was fine in the early 2000s is DEFINITELY fine now. It worked back then, and it works now, on much faster connections. If you use small GIFs, you can use a massive amount of them with no negative effect on performance.

And you can use small ones, because one thing that people don't get nowadays is that not everything has to be as big as possible. Most images don't really benefit from being in a huge resolution, and some of them, like buttons on a website, don't benefit from not being as small as possible.

You can see it in art nowadays, how there are so many pictures in really simple art styles, that have no reason to be even 1 MB in size, but are like, 5, or 10. Why does a stick figure need to be drawn in "4K"? It doesn't, it's a stick figure, it's a simple thing, it doesn't have the amount of detail that would require that.

Also, you see this in video. Why do people record videos that are mostly static images in 60 FPS? Or even 30, even that is overkill. If you are going to record a game running at 60 FPS, then record it at 60 as well, but if you're doing a tech video, then why not do 20? Or maybe even less? There's just not enough motion to justify that many frames.

And it applies to resolution as well. Have you ever noticed how people that do tech videos are constantly making their font size bigger during the video, so people can see what they're doing? Are they slow in the head? Why don't people just lower the fucking resolution?! It makes things larger, and easier to see without fullscreen, AND it makes the file sizes smaller, so it's easier to archive things, or even host them yourself!

My Libsixel video is 68.3 MB for over 27 minutes. And I don't even know how to do the best possible compression, I just did the default ffmpeg one. And the frame rate could have been lower (my gaming videos, on the other hand, are 60 FPS, but the lowest resolution that I can set X to on my system, which is 640x480). But I have downloaded videos before, that were mostly static images, that were like, a GB in size, and not even as long.

Ridiculously wasteful. And this trend of larger and larger file sizes gives corporations more power, by making things artificially harder to host! It also makes it harder for people to download things and keep them. You would think that tech people in particular would care more about efficiency, especially the MUH MEMEMALISM people. https://social.076.moe/url/74764