It used to be easy to find appropriate images to illustrate my posts. I’d jump onto tumblr with a theme in mind and typically find something suitable within a few minutes. Now I try that and I’m faced with wall to wall animated gifs. They’ve gone from old fashioned and annoying web page gimmick to what feels like 90% of tumblr contents in a couple of years.
Ironically, like the Oatmeal, I’m actually a fan of animated gifs. They work particularly well for sex and kink shots. I just wish tumblr had an option to filter them out. Sadly, given the number of sites only producing movies these days, and the shift away from commercial image sets, I suspect it’s a trend that’s not about to reverse itself. With movies as source material, animated clips is the natural way to feature them.
In the meantime I’ll have to look further afield for good image sources. For example, the shot below is from twitter, specifically Mistress Amiko’s feed. So far twitter does not seem to have succumbed to the animation craze in quite the same way as tumblr.
Go with the flow and post some arty femdom GIFs. Won’t hold of against you.
The problem with animated gifs from my perspective is that they suck up a lot of server bandwidth, make the page slower to load and are (IMO) distracting from the text. Like I said, I actually like them, and manage a tumblr full of them, but I’m not sure they’re right for this blog.
-paltego