{"id":4321,"date":"2022-10-10T02:50:25","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T02:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=4321"},"modified":"2022-10-10T02:50:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T02:50:25","slug":"the-real-story-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2022\/10\/the-real-story-here\/","title":{"rendered":"The real story here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/see\/uploads\/big\/b3cf14c21571531911a53e2f76f48aae.png\"><\/p>\n<p>??? It\u2019s a weird way to put it, but okay.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d say the looping animated medium of communication went from .gif files and forums to full-on platforms hitting billions today.<\/p>\n<p>Not really a deathbed.<\/p>\n<p>A visual reaction to anything is whatever is doing it best (smileys, emojis, \u201cGIFs\u201d, \u201cTikToks\u201d, a static picture), regardless of its technical side (.gif files, .mp4 containers, .png\/jpg or video stream from Giphy).<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s funny how we say that words are important and then we conflate technical acronyms with culture, lol. Anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The truly interesting thing about that format of communication, is that no engineer and developer really ever \u201cgot\u201d it. It\u2019s so wild! Specs are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lossless and lossy image and sound<\/li>\n<li>Perfect loop<\/li>\n<li>Perfect sync of audio<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No existing tech does it. Gifs don\u2019t have sound. MP4s don\u2019t loop well. .webp is some bullshit. APNG are nonexistent and without sound either? Just sad.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, any 5 year old hardware is capable of playing 100s of simultaneous loops of video and sound perfectly synchronized, in real time.<\/p>\n<p>I understand; it is far more lucrative to anally probe hundreds of millions of people through their phones <em>constantly<\/em>, than to invent a file format that does it all, empowering folks with designer tools and APIs that everyone would be able to use, native support in OSes, etc.<\/p>\n<p>I get that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>??? It\u2019s a weird way to put it, but okay. I\u2019d say the looping animated medium of communication went from .gif files and forums to full-on platforms hitting billions today. Not really a deathbed. A visual reaction to anything is whatever is doing it best (smileys, emojis, \u201cGIFs\u201d, \u201cTikToks\u201d, a static picture), regardless of its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4322,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4321\/revisions\/4322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}