^ You're apparently new here, so I'm going to try to be nice about this.
We have a dedicated thread for animated GIFs…
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=5708We have it because many of our users view the site on mobile devices and/or have limited bandwidth, and a
4.5 MB time bomb like that, in a thread where it's not supposed to be, can really ruin a person's day. Longer term, if we don't keep the animated GIFs in one thread, they spread to every thread and the site becomes unusable. (See also the
broken windows theory.)
And no, putting spoiler tags around images does not stop them, animated or otherwise, from downloading.
Please move it.
EDIT: Okay, a mod moved it. Thank you, whoever it was.