
Occasionally, some fans will float the gif theory:īut still, pretty much every time the Muppets posts one of these on Facebook, they get comments complaining about the lack of audio, which is understandable. Since embedded video came to Facebook, there are all kinds of pages that posts videos regularly. It might be a sped-up video of somebody making an awesome cake, or a clip of an outspoken citizen DESTROYing a politician at a town hall meeting, or dog and a baby interacting adorably. Or a dog and a baby making an awesome cake. Normally, as far as I know, these embedded videos default to silence, but all you have to do is click the volume button to un-mute them. And as far as I know, Facebook doesn’t have a way to embed gifs. Fortunately, I got to talking about this Tough Pigs’ own Scott Hanson, (also a Muppet Wiki admin!) who knows more about this stuff than I do, and here’s what he told me: But what do I know? Nothing, that’s what.


GIF developers have been trying to change the way GIFs are produced and published in the past few years. GIF technology requires an awfully large file size for such a small amount of content.
#Tumbleweed gif on giphy mp4#
#Tumbleweed gif faceboom mp4#įor example, a 3-second GIF might be 8MB whereas the same clip in mp4 is less than half a MB and better quality.

So the GIFv has been developed and I think it’s playing tricks on the way people consuming them.
