Poll: Do Gif Avatars Annoy You?

[Dalek Caan]

I like them. Some of them are really good. My favorite would have to be the dancing cyberman. The LOTR Gifs also ensure hilarity.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Some do, but then again, some non-GIF avatars annoy me as well. Whether or not is moving is not the critical factor.

 

[Creator002]

Oh, and serious props to the person on the escapist who has a simple gif of small fly crawling across a plain white background.

I've been fooled by this 3 times so far. So annoying until I find out it's just a gif. Then I laugh.

OT: No. Gif animations as avatars do not annoy me.

 

[Thundero13]

I don't hate gif avatars, I think they're often funny and cool to look at and stuff ^_^
Also i'd love to have a gif avatar myself but I could never replace Braeburn =3
Actually, the only avatars that do annoy me are really creepy ones...

 

[PAGEToap44]

This thread is great. It's turned into a showcase of everyone's gif avatars.

OT. Does it look like I hate them. Who could hate Gandalf's most iconic moment shown over and over again.

 

[Wolf-AUS]

I like .gif avatars, there's a heaps in here that I hadn seen before. If they give me epilepsy I'm not he biggest fan though.

 

[KefkaCultist]

Hello Escapists. look at your avatar. Now back to mine. Now back at your avatar. Now back to mine. Sadly, yours isn't mine. Stop using boring JPG images and switch to animated GIFs to look like mine. Look down. Back up. Where are you? You're in a thread with the avatar your avatar could look like. Whats in your hand? Back at me. I have it. It's an animated GIF of that thing you love. Look again. The GIF is now DIAMONDS. Anything is possible when your avatar is animated and not a boring JPG. I'm on a horse.

OT: I like them 95% of the time because they make people's posts stand out more and I recognize people by animated gifs more than jpgs. However, people that use poorly done, non-looping, flashy, and/or just plain annoying avatars kinda bug me.

 

[Astiahl]

I love them, like a little bit of wonderfulness being injected into the thread. Unless it's just ugly, those ones can go to hell. >.>

I can generally forgive non-looping ones if they're sufficiently amusing, like people getting hurt in a comical manner.

 

[JackandTom]

I challenge anyone to hate Kurt Russel!

 

[go-10]

as long as its not about Slenderman like them

 

[DanielBrown]

Depends on the gif, really. Some are fun, some are subtle and then there's the chaotic ones where you don't really know what the hell is going on. I wish those would disappear.

strangely enough yours would work better as a gif, (if you had the blue bars loading)
but i understand thats a lot of effort i wouldn't want to edit that in either.

The original picture is a gif, actually. I uploaded it as one, but it wouldn't work. Couldn't bother to find a new one.

 

[M-E-D The Poet]

Hello Escapists. look at your avatar. Now back to mine. Now back at your avatar. Now back to mine. Sadly, yours isn't mine. Stop using boring JPG images and switch to animated GIFs to look like mine. Look down. Back up. Where are you? You're in a thread with the avatar your avatar could look like. Whats in your hand? Back at me. I have it. It's an animated GIF of that thing you love. Look again. The GIF is now DIAMONDS. Anything is possible when your avatar is animated and not a boring JPG. I'm on a horse.

OT: I like them 95% of the time because they make people's posts stand out more and I recognize people by animated gifs more than jpgs. However, people that use poorly done, non-looping, flashy, and/or just plain annoying avatars kinda bug me.

Bazinga

Well played blowfish, well played

OT : MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH

 

[k-ossuburb]

LOOK AT HIS WIDDLE FACE!


He only wants to be your friend.

 

[Neoseek]

Nope, in fact this thread made me get one

 

[hazabaza1]

Stephen Fry will fuck your shit up.
Or request that you stop fucking his shit up.

 

[basm321]

I love how this basically became a gif avatar parade

 

[Mr Shrike]

I'm fine with .gifs, but my aging Mac isn't... the thing's 8 years old, give it a break.

The issue is, sometimes it crashes/freezes whenever it's loading a .gif, but that's a problem on my end rather than the guy with the .gif.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

I love gif Avatars particularly mine. I'm not going back to static ones. Also making gifs is more challenging work, and so more satisfying.