GIF has already been replaced by better formats. The one exception to this is short, looping videos, where GIF still enjoys enormous popularity.<p>So yeah, GIF wasn&#x27;t intended for this use case. But that&#x27;s the use case it has right now.<p>Go back 20 years, and &quot;GIF&quot; means a 256-color losslessly compressed image, occasionally animated. Today, &quot;GIF&quot; nearly always means a short looping video with horrible compression.<p>Practically speaking, today, &quot;GIF replacement&quot; means doing a better job for short, looping videos, because that&#x27;s all GIF has left at this point.